Press Release 159/2012

Carl Friedrich Medal of Honor Granted to Reinhold Würth

KIT Department of Economics Honors the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Würth Group Foundation in a Colloquium
Prof. Reinhold Würth erhält die Carl-Friedrich-Medaille der Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften (Foto: Würth)
Prof. Reinhold Würth is granted the Carl Friedrich Medal by the Department of Economics. (Photo: Würth)

The Department of Economics of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) grants the Carl Friedrich Medal of Honor to Professor Reinhold Würth. This is to acknowledge the merits of the entrepreneur for students’ entrepreneurship. From 1999 to 2003, Würth headed the inter-departmental Institute for Entrepreneurship of the then Universität Karlsruhe. Würth will be handed over the medal during a colloquium on Thursday, October 25, 2012, 18.30 hrs, at the Tulla-Hörsaal on KIT Campus South (building 11.40). Representatives of the media are cordially invited and kindly asked to register using the form enclosed.

 

 

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