| Date | Award | |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Elected to Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes | |
| 1978 | Prize of the University of Bonn for the best dissertation of the preceeding 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-Stiftung) | |
| 1991 | George B. Dantzig Prize (Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Programming Society) | |
| 1995 | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis of the German Research Foundation (DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) | |
| 1995 | Elected Member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Natural Sciences and Humanities (BBAW - Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) | |
| 1998 | Honorary Member of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung | |
| 1999 | Scientific Award (Wissenschaftspreis) of the Gesellschaft für Operations Research | |
| 1999 | Foreign Member of the 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 |
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| 2006 | Alwin-Walther Medal (awarded by TU Darmstadt in conjunction IGD and ZGDV in Darmstadt) | |
| 2006 | Honorary Doctorate (University of Karlsruhe) | |
| 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 | 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) | |
| 2014 | Life Time Award der Stiftung heureka für Umwelt & Mobilität (HEUREKA 2014, Stuttgart) | |
| 2015 |
Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences (CAS) |
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| 2016 |
Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences for
the advancement of science in the developing countries
(TWAS) |
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| 2017 |
Member of Academia Europaea - the Academy
of Europe |