Germany
Wolfgang Ketterle
Physicist, Nobel Laureate for Physics, 2001
Scholarship 1990 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
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"A combination of good fortune, excellent staff, selfless mentors, a sixth sense and my own abilities enabled
me to be right at the front in important developments."
Mark Potstada
Deputy Delegate at the German Chamber of Commerce Abroad (AHK) in Saudi Arabia
One-year Scholarship 2002-2003 University of Exeter, United Kingdom
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"I'd been excellently prepared, because a lot of what I'd learnt during my DAAD scholarship in Exeter proved to be exactly like that in practice."
Silke Pfeiffer
Regional Director America for Transparency International
One-year Scholarship 1995 Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino in Tucumán, Argentina
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"I was really pleased that the job didn't take me to the capital. A provincial town like this is a small and
straightforward world that you can get to understand quite well within half a year."
Angelika Niebler
Lawyer, Member of the European Parliament
One-year Scholarship 1984/85 University of Geneva, Switzerland
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"My personal experience confirms my view that young people should go out and get to know other cultures and languages."
Claudia Kemfert
Professor of Environmental Economics
Doctoral scholarship, 1998, Stanford University, USA
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"Scientists need to speak up. That happens too seldom in Germany."
Birgit E. Klein
Scholar of Judaism, Professor of the History of the Jewish People, College of Jewish Studies Heidelberg
One-year Scholarship 1992/1993 at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
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"A stay abroad is something that you can draw on all life long. It continues to develop"
Claudia Lux
President of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
DAAD Scholarship Holder in China from 1974 to 1976
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"Access to information is not just about education, it's also about democratic rights"
Herbert A. Henzler
Economic Adviser
One-year Scholarship 1968-1969, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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"Today's research labs create tomorrow's jobs"
Gerold Wefer
Professor of General Geology with a focus on Marine Geology, University of Bremen.
One-Year Scholarship 1979 – 1980, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla, USA
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"I see passing research findings onto the population as self-evident"
Tomma Abts
Artist, Turner Prize Winner 2006
One-Year Scholarship 1995-1996, London
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"Each picture begins in its own way, and I never know where it's leading to or what the painting will eventually look like"
Wilhelm Krull
Secretary General of the Volkswagen Foundation
DAAD Lektor 1980 to 1984, University of Oxford, Britain
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"Overcoming the prevailing speechlessness between disciplines!"
Johann Wolfgang Wägele
Director of the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn
Short-term Grant 1979, Interuniversity Institute of Eilat, Israel
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"Without my time on the Red Sea I could not have gathered the material for my doctoral thesis"
Thomas von Danwitz
Judge at the European Court of Justice
One-year Scholarship 1989/1990 at the ENA, Paris
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"My time at the ENA opened up fabulous opportunities for me. The legal knowledge I acquired was truly enriching, the practical
experience of administrative work was most impressive, and the personal impressions and friendships that last until today remain unforgotten"
Magdalena Götz
Biologist, Director at the National Research Centre for Environment and Health, Institute of Stem Cell Research in Neuherberg and Professor at Munich University
One-year scholarship 1985/86, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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"I was determined to spend a year abroad and knew that the DAAD was one of the best ways to do this"
Hans-Christian Schmid
Film director and scriptwriter
DAAD One-Year Scholarship "Free Art" 1995/96, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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"Thanks to the DAAD scholarship I was able to study scriptwriting with Frank Daniel and David Howard, who I had only previously
known from short workshops in Germany. It was a life-time experience that continues to influence my work today."
Cherno Jobatey
TV Presenter
DAAD One-year Scholarship 1985-86, Fullerton/UCLA, Los Angeles/USA
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"It was back in California that I came up with a vision of what I wanted to do and how I could achieve my goals"
Jutta Allmendinger
Professor of Sociology, Director of the Institute for Labour Market and Career Research (IAB) Frankfurt
DAAD One-Year Scholarship 1983-84, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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"Learning to learn - this ability must be stimulated and fostered."
Hans Kollhoff
Architect
One-year Scholarship 1975 Cornell University, New York, USA
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"My relationship with architecture is not rooted in the aspect of invention, but rather in the aspect of observation"
Dieter Leonhard
President of the Franco-German University, Saarbrücken, Professor of Sanitary Engineering and Hydraulics at the Fachhochschule Frankfurt
One-year Scholarship 1982 at the Institut National Polytechnique in Grenoble, France
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"We shouldn't want to foresee the future, rather we should want to facilitate it." That's exactly what the one-year scholarship
was all about, 'facilitating' much that has accompanied me and perhaps even shaped me to his very day"
Reinhold Leinfelder
Researcher and Museum Director
One-year Scholarship 1978-1979 Portugal
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"A society must also measure itself by how it treats its cultural heritage in an age of profit and benefit maximisation"
Christoph Markschies
President of the Humboldt University Berlin
Scholarship 1983/84 Theological Academic Year at Dormition Abbey, Jerusalem
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"The time in Jerusalem shaped me deeply and, looking back, gave me direction"
Dieter Bingen
Director of the German Poland Institute in Darmstadt
One-Year Scholarship 1977 at the Polish Institute for International Affairs (PISM) in Warsaw and at the Institute for Western Affairs in Poznan
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"My research stay in Poland marked the start of my personal and academic contacts which continue to play an important role
for me today"
Sascha Spoun
Economist and Political Scientist, President of the University of Lüneburg
One-Year Scholarship 1992/93 at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
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"The DAAD scholarship gave me the freedom to unfold fully as a student. This played a decisive role in shaping my future career path"
Karl Wilhelm Lauterbach
Director of the Institute of Health Economics and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Cologne
One-year Scholarship 1989-92 at the Harvard School of Public Health Boston, USA
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" We need more specialists in parliament"
Axel Ockenfels
Professor of Experimental Economic Research and Game Theory, University of Cologne
One-year Scholarship 1996/97, Department of Management Science und Information Systems at Penn State University/USA
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"Without the DAAD, by life would certainly have developed very differently"
Klaus Zumwinkel
Former Chief Executive Officer of Deutscher Post World Net
One-year Scholarship 1970/1971 Wharton Business School Philadelphia, USA
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"My time in the United States was far more important for my personal development than the doctorate in Germany."
Martin Doerry
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of news magazine "Der Spiegel"
One-year Scholarship 1978/1979 University of Zurich, Switzerland
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"Providing information is the guiding principle in my work. It's not about creating moods, it's about explaining contexts."
Gerhard Teufel
Lawyer and Secretary General of the German National Academic Foundation
One-year Scholarship 1981/82, École Nationale d'Administration (ENA) Paris
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"I like working with people more than working with files"
Michael Jansen
Former Head of the Office of the Federal President
Scholarship 1968– 1969 at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA) Paris
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"I've learnt to reach consensus through a cooperative approach"
Klaus Wübbenhorst
Economist
Short-term Scholarship 1979 Britain, 1983 USA
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"Market research is the key to understanding consumers."
Juliane Kokott
Advocate General at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg
One-year Scholarship 1978-1979 at the University of Geneva
and the Graduate Institute of International Studies/Geneva
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"The scholarship was the first major stepping stone on the path to my future international career."
Patrick Roth
Author, Screenplay and Radio Drama Writer, Director
One-year Scholarship 1975, Los Angeles, USA
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"Writing is the search for death"
Hubertus Knabe
Head of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial Centre -
Historian and Specialist in East German History
One-year Scholarship 1985-1987 University of Budapest, Hungary
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"I'm researching a piece of German history which others like to suppress."
Jürgen Mlynek
President of the Humboldt University Berlin
One-year Scholarship 1975-1976, École Polytechnique Paris, France
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"We want to and will compete with Oxford and Stanford"
Claus Kleber
Journalist
Short-term Scholarship, 1984, Federal Communications Commission Washington, USA
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"If I'm good, then even in ten years' time people still won't know which party I vote for"
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
Opinion Pollster
One-year Scholarship 1937 School of Journalism
University of Missouri-Columbia
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"The scholarship helped me discover my life topic"
Erwin Wickert
Diplomat and Writer
One-year Scholarship 1935 Dickinson College Carlisle/Pennsylvania
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"I could never bear seeing the world only from across my desk"
Gunter Pleuger
former German UN Ambassador
1966/67 Scholarship at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA) Paris
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"I wouldn't want to do without the time at the ENA"
Wolfgang Ischinger
Ambassador
1967 University of Geneva
1972 Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Harvard University Law School
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"Scholarships abroad played a key role in my decision to go into international politics"
Volker Perthes
Director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and Chairman of the Board of SWP, Berlin
Graduate scholarship 1986-1987 in Damascus, Syria
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"Today, I see the Middle East as a region like any othere"
Andrea Grimm
General Manager Application Management Services IBM
One-Year Scholarship 1982-83 University of Yale, USA
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"My research year at Yale was one of the key experiences in my life."
Winfried Scharlau
Journalist
One-Year Scholarship 1961-63 Oxford University, Britain
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"It's at Oxford that I learnt what political journalism can be, what cosmopolitism and liberalism can be!"
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