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  • Dr. Hermann Eiselen in 1995
  • Dr. Hermann Eiselen in 2002
  • President Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Liebig honours Dr. Hermann Eiselen for his generous support for the University of Hohenheim in 2006
  • Prime Minister Erwin Teufel of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Dr. Hermann Eiselen in 2005
  • The mayor of Ulm, Ivo Gönner and Dr. Hermann Eiselen in 2005
  • Dr. Hermann Eiselen, the Federal Science Minister Annette Schavan and the President of the Association of German Bakers Peter Becker in 2005
  • Dr. Hermann Eiselen and students at the Dies academicus of the University of Hohenheim in 2003

Founder Dr. Hermann Eiselen

Dr. Hermann Eiselen was born in Nagold, Germany in 1926. He studied economics in Stuttgart and Heidelberg and was awarded his PhD in 1951 at the University of Goettingen. After a 9 months stay in the United States, he joined the family business (food industry – manufacturing of bakery supplies) in 1954 as managing director and developed it successfully. In 1980 before the business was sold he employed almost 500 people. Together with his father, Dr. h. c. Willy Eiselen (1896 - 1981), Dr. Hermann Eiselen was co-founder of the Father and Son Eiselen Foundation (1978). He was chairman of the Foundation until June 2001. In numerous essays, lectures and speeches, he devoted himself to problems of world nutrition, food security and the overcoming of poverty. He stressed the prominent role of agricultural research in the reduction of hunger and poverty in developing countries.

The funding of research activities by the Eiselen Foundation (including the promotion of master and doctoral degrees, scientific awards, research project support) and Dr. Eiselen's private commitment (Josef G. Knoll-Professorship for Development Studies) amount to more than 14 million Euros. For many years, the Eiselen Foundation was the only foundation in Germany dedicated to the improvement of world nutrition and reducing hunger in the world. Dr. Eiselen was interested in modern plant breeding, especially in genetically modified crops, and its impact on world nutrition.

Influcenced by own hunger experiences after the Second World War, it was an obligation to Dr. Hermann Eiselen that the German civil society is fighting against hunger in the world. Thus, he translated the slogan of the international Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO) "Fiat Panis" into German and formulated the demand "everyone should have enough food", with the emphasis on "everyone".

The Eiselen Foundation was the only foundation in Germany over many years, which had the goal of improving the world nutrition and the reduction of hunger in the world.

Dr. Hermann Eiselen has been widely honored for his work. Since 1984 he was an honorary senator of the Universities of Ulm and Hohenheim. In 1996, he was awarded the Merit Medal of state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. In 2002 his work was honored with the first-class Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2003, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Hohenheim for his services to promote the fight against hunger and poverty in the world. In 2004, the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture at the Humboldt University in Berlin awarded him the Albrecht-Daniel-Thaer-Medal in silver.

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