Date
| Award |
| 1971 |
Elected to the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) |
| 1978 |
Prize of the University of Bonn for the best dissertation
of the preceding academic year |
| 1980 |
Honorable Mention at the Lanchester Prize Competition (Operations
Research Society of America and the Institute of Management Science) |
| 1982 |
Fulkerson Prize (American Mathematical Society and Mathematical
Programming Society) |
| 1984 |
IBM Prize for the best paper showing the role of computers
in Management Science and Operations Research (The Institute of Management
Science) |
| 1987 |
Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Professor, Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York, USA |
| 1990 |
Karl Heinz Beckurts-Prize (Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation) |
| 1991 |
George B. Dantzig Prize (Society of Industrial and Applied
Mathematics and Mathematical Programming Society) |
| 1995 |
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG). |
| 1995 |
Member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW)
|
| 1998 |
Honorary Member of the German Mathematical Society (DMV)
|
| 1999 |
Scientific Award of the German Operational Research Society (GOR)
|
| 1999 |
Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering,
USA |
| 2003 |
Member of acatech - German Academy of Science and Engineering |
| 2004 |
EURO Gold Medal 2004 (EURO - The Association of
European Operational Research Societies) |
| 2005 |
Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences |
| 2006 |
Alwin-Walther Medal
(awarded by TU Darmstadt in conjunction IGD and ZGDV in Darmstadt) |
| 2006 |
Honorary Doctorate (University of Karlsruhe (TH)) |
| 2006 |
John von Neumann Theory Prize (jointly with László Lovász and Alexander Schrijver) awarded by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) |
| 2007 |
Honorary Doctorate (Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology - VAST) |
| 2008 |
Golden Badge of Honor of TU Berlin |
| 2008 |
Honorary Doctorate (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg) |
| 2008 |
Wissenschaftspreis des Regierenden Bürgermeisters von Berlin (Scientific Award of the Governing Mayor of Berlin) |
| 2009 |
Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) |
| 2010 |
Medal of Honour, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador |
| 2010 |
SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession |
| 2011 |
Honorary Doctorate (University of Augsburg)
|
| 2011 |
IBM Faculty Award |
| 2011 |
TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professor (Technische Universität München)
|
Awards, no one will refuse to admit this, are always something special
in an academic career. But to experience esteem of one's work -
as expressed in the three sentences below - makes you at least just as
pleased. Reviewing the book
