AWT awards and honors
- AWT Adolf Martens Medal for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of materials technology, process engineering and production engineering
- AWT badge of honor for special services by AWT members
- AWT honorary membership for outstanding commitment by AWT members and officials
- AWT honorary chairmanship for outstanding commitment of former chairmen
- Pauliebensahm Prize for the best young speaker at the Hardening Congress. Prize money 2.000,- EUR
- Karl Wilhelm Burgdorf Prize (donated by the company Burgdorf GmbH & Co. KG for merits in putting scientific ideas into practice. Prize money 5.000,- EUR
Prizes and honors
As part of the AWT General Meeting 2025, deserving AWT members were once again honored.
Dr.-Ing. Jörg Kleff and Dr.-Ing. Thomas Lübben were awarded the AWT badge of honor for their commitment to numerous AWT committees. The laudatory speech for Mr. Kleff was held by Dr. Matthias Steinbacher. He emphasized Mr. Kleff's extraordinary commitment to the AWT technical committees, project-related committees and the AWT board. The laudatory speech for Dr. Lübben was delivered by Gunther Schmitt. He praised his many years of voluntary commitment to Technical Committee 15, the organization of conferences and research into dimensional and shape changes in manufacturing.
The Pauliebensahm Prizes for the best presentations by young scientists were also awarded during the congress. There were two winners this year: Gabriel Ebner from the Leibniz Institute for Materials-Oriented Technologies received the prize for the best young scientist presentation at the Hardening Congress 2024, while Antonio Carlos de Figueiredo Silveira, also from the Leibniz Institute for Materials-Oriented Technologies, received the prize for his presentation at Steel Innovation 2025. The winners can look forward to prize money of 2,000 euros.
