Franz Stolze Prize 2026

With the Franz Stolze Prize, donated by Dr. Manfred Freimark and Gudrun Stolze, the TUD Dresden University of Technology (TUD) annually honors outstanding scientific theses by students and dissertations by young scientists in the field of energy technology. The Franz Stolze Prize is endowed with 1,500 euros.

University lecturers at the TUD are eligible to nominate candidates for the Franz Stolze Prize. Dresden. The diploma theses, master's theses or dissertations should have been completed and successfully defended between March 2025 and the submission deadline.

Submission

Proposals must be submitted electronically via the university lecturer with the completed Franz Stolze Prize form, a detailed justification, a copy of the thesis, copies of the reviews, a curriculum vitae and a list of publications of the applicant as well as copies of the grade overview, the university degree certificate or a copy of the doctoral certificate by March 31, 2026 to the Office of the Rector / Academic Committees, Jenny Petermann, e-mail: , phone: 0351 463 42318.

A committee consisting of the founder, Dr. Manfred Freimark, university lecturers from the relevant departments at TU Dresden, experts in energy technology, and a member of the rectorate will evaluate the submitted proposals. If two papers are selected as worthy of the award, the prize money will be divided into 1,000 euros and 500 euros. The prize will be awarded on the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Day or at another appropriate public university event.

The Berlin engineer Dr. Franz Stolze is the inventor of the design concept of the gas turbine, which is still indispensable for energy, drive and process engineering today and in the context of the energy transition. Franz Stolze first described his single-shaft "fire turbine" in 1873. He was initially denied a patent for it. With the patent granted 24 years later for his essentially renamed "hot air machine" with a multi-stage axial compressor, the centrally arranged hot air generator, the multi-stage axial turbine and his attempt to realize his invention with the "Weißensee" experimental gas turbine, Franz Stolze laid the essential foundations for today's gas turbine technology. In 2010, the prize named after Franz Stolze was awarded for the first time at TU Dresden.

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