DBU Environmental Prize awarded to "Tree Patron" Mattheck and "Exhaust Hunter" Schulte

Osnabrueck, Germany 17.09.2003 (PROTEXT/ots) -

Foundation honours international commitment as well asdevelopment of innovative technology designed to protect the environment -Germany's President to present the prize

The latest winners of the Deutscher Umweltpreis, Germany'senvironmental achievement award, have now been decided: Therecipients of the prize which, at EUR 500,000, is Europe'shighest paid award for environmental achievement, and which isto be presented by German President, Johannes Rau, on 26thOctober in Osnabrück, are the Head of the Biomechanicsdepartment at the Karlsruhe Research Institute, Prof. Dr. ClausMattheck (55), and the founder and managing director of HJSFahrzeugtechnik GmbH & Co KG, Hermann Josef Schulte (56, Menden).The Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) is awarding the prizein recognition of Mattheck's pioneering achievements at nationaland international level as an interpreter of the language ofNature to engineering products as well as for his conservationof trees. Schulte is being honoured for the research anddevelopment of environmentally-friendly exhaust gas technology invehicle construction, and especially for the development of aparticle filter designed for diesel engines. As a result of thisfilter, HJS has helped to lower the risk of cancer being causedby particulates without jeopardising the benefits that thismotor brings for climate protection, said DBU'S Secretary-General, Dr. Fritz Brickwedde, in a press release issued today.

- A more detailed text in English can be found atwww.dbu.de/press ots Original Text Service: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)Internet: http://www.presseportal.de For further information please contact: Franz-Georg Elpers Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt An der Bornau2 D-49090 Osnabrück, Germay Tel.:

+49 541 9633 521 Fax:+49 541 9633 198

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