Photos of award ceremony 2011

Sylvia Looks welcomes all guests.

Tobias Stekeler presents his topic „simultaneous identification of pigs“, which has been supported by the CLAAS Foundation.

Thanks to the help of some guests the demonstration was very vivid.

On the following day the guests had a tour of the CLAAS factory.

Dr. Hermann Garbers, deputy Chairman of the CLAAS Foundation Board, welcomed the guests on the day of the Award Ceremony.

Attending were (first row, from left to right): Dr. Theo Freye, Dr. Rolf Meuther, Helmut Claas, Dr. Hermann Garbers, Dr. James Brighton, Prof. Stefan Böttinger, Uwe Lütkeschümer and Sylvia Looks.

The former prize winner Bernhard Böcker-Riese (2007)…

… and Dr. Benjamin Schutte (2002) reported on the positive impact the Helmut Claas-Scholarship had on their respective careers.

Intensive talks during coffee break (from left): Helmut Claas, the new member of the German jury Prof. Bernd Johanning and Dr. Eberhard Nacke.

Steffen Häberle presented his project to the audience.

Giving a round of applause, also the new member of the German jury Prof. Marcus Geimer (left).

Helmut Claas hands over the Wageningen-prize 2011 to Rob van Winden and Thomas Fransen.

Bonus prizes went to Nikolay Buldyaev of the Kuban Agrarian University in Krasnodar in Russia, Franz Phillip Drerup (University Bonn) and Florian Kreis (FH Bingen).

Kirsten Wulfmeier accepted the fourth prize of the Helmut Claas-Scholarship on behalf of Svenja Nörenberg (University of Braunschweig).

Robert Fillingham (Harper Adams University College) won the third prize.

Matthias Dietzel (University of Hohenheim) got the second prize.

The first prize was presented to Steffen Häberle (University of Stuttgart).

Waiting for the official prize winner photo.

Happy scholarship holders - pleased for them are the jury, Board of Trustees and the Executive Board of the CLAAS Foundation.

All prize winner, jury, Board of Trustees and Executive Board.

Helmut Claas together with the bonus prize winners.

Helmut Claas together with this year’s winners.

Arnold Loermann invites the guests to take a few tractor or combine rides on his farm.

Especially the XERION tractor was a popular photo background.

From Wageningen: Thomas Fransen, Rob van Winden and tutor Dr. Jan Hofstee.

Test rides with changes on the fly.

Also seasoned ag engineering experts such as Prof. Stefan Böttinger had fun driving the XERION.