Helmut Fischer Prize awarded to film author Ingolf Baur

As a science presenter and film author, Ingolf Baur has made numerous TV documentaries on research topics and hosts the science magazine Nano on 3Sat. Since 2016, the Helmut Fischer Foundation Prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, has been awarded jointly with the Deutsches Museum in Munich to personalities who have rendered outstanding services to science communication. Baur, the prize winner, describes his own working method as follows: "Even in complex contexts, to be precise and to simplify only as far as it remains correct. And then to fiddle around until things get to the point." According to Baur, the measurement technology company Helmut Fischer stands for the highest accuracy and reliability - standards that he also tries to meet every day in his journalistic work.

The entrepreneur Helmut Fischer, who personally attended the award ceremony together with his wife, has contributed the entire assets of his measurement technology company to the non-profit foundation in order to promote science, research, education and art. In his welcoming address, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang M. Heckl, Director General of the Deutsches Museum, emphasized his long-standing ties with the entrepreneur Fischer, who donated a considerable collection of literature to the museum many years ago. Dr. Florian Reinhart, Chairman of the Foundation Board, paid tribute to the life's work of Helmut Fischer, who built up a global company from simple beginnings in post-war Stuttgart. An important concern of the entrepreneur was always to measure scientifically complex relationships precisely and to bring them to the point. For this reason, the foundation also aims to promote appropriate scientific communication and to honor this through the prize.