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DBU Environmental Prize awarded to "Tree Patron" Mattheck and "Exhaust Hunter" Schulte

Osnabrueck, Germany (ots)

Foundation honours international commitment as well as development
   of innovative technology designed to protect the environment -
   Germany's President to present the prize
The latest winners of the Deutscher Umweltpreis, Germany's
environmental achievement award, have now been decided: The
recipients of the prize which, at EUR 500,000, is Europe's highest
paid award for environmental achievement,  and which is to be
presented by German President, Johannes Rau, on 26th October in
Osnabrück, are the Head of the Biomechanics department at the
Karlsruhe Research Institute, Prof. Dr. Claus Mattheck (55), and the
founder and managing director of  HJS Fahrzeugtechnik GmbH & Co KG,
Hermann Josef Schulte (56, Menden). The Deutsche Bundesstiftung
Umwelt (DBU) is awarding the prize in recognition of Mattheck's
pioneering achievements at national and international level as an
interpreter of the language of Nature to engineering products as well
as for his conservation of trees. Schulte is being honoured for the
research and development of environmentally-friendly exhaust gas
technology in vehicle construction, and especially for the
development of a particle filter designed for diesel engines. As a
result of this filter, HJS has helped to lower the risk of cancer
being caused by particulates without jeopardising the benefits that
this motor brings for climate protection, said DBU'S
Secretary-General, Dr. Fritz Brickwedde, in a press release issued
today.
- A more detailed text in English can be found at www.dbu.de/press
ots Original Text Service: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)
Internet: http://www.presseportal.de
For further information please contact:
Franz-Georg Elpers
Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt
An der Bornau 2
D-49090 Osnabrueck, Germay
Tel.: +49 541 9633 521
Fax:  +49 541 9633 198

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