Hannover Messe

The Hannover Messe (HM; "Hanover Fair") is one of the world's largest trade fairs, dedicated to the topic of industry development. It is organized by Deutsche Messe AG and held on the Hanover Fairground in Hanover, Germany. Typically, there are about 6,500 exhibitors and 250,000 visitors.

Poster for the 1947 fair
Siemens at the 2014 exhibition

The Hannover Messe started in 1947 in an undamaged factory building in Laatzen, south of Hanover, by an arrangement of the British military government in order to boost the economic advancement of post-war Germany. The first fair was colloquially known as Fischbrötchenmesse (Fischbrötchen fair) due to the exemptions in food rationing for the fair at this time. It proved hugely successful and was thence repeated on a yearly basis, contributing largely to the success of the Hanover fairground in replacing the then-East German city of Leipzig as the new major fair city for West Germany.

The product portfolio includes building automation and technology, coating materials, air compressors, gas compressors, environmental technology, factory equipment, compressed air technology, micro-actuator systems, motors, scheduling software, refrigeration technology, robotics and additive manufacturing systems.[1]

In the 1980s, the growing information and telecommunication industry demanded the organizer Deutsche Messe AG to split the fair. CeBIT was a successful spin-off of the Hannover Messe. The Hanover Fair now covers all areas of industrial technology.

The next Hanover Fair is scheduled for May 30th to June 02, 2022, with Portugal as the partner country.[2]

Hermes Award

The "Hermes Award" has been presented as a technology innovation prize at the Hanover Fair since 2004. It is considered to be the most prestigious award in industrial R&D. The prize promotes the innovative ideas in the market-ready products and services for industry. The patrons of the award are the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German State of Lower Saxony.[3] Renowned German Professor Wolfgang Wahlster was one of the initiators of the award and for many years was the Chairman of the Hermes Award Jury.[4]

References
  1. "Hannover Messe Info & Stats". Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  2. "Partner Country Portugal". Deutsche Messe AG. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  3. Wahlster, Wolfgang; Beste, Dieter (2016). "Die ersten Jahre des Hermes Award". HERMES AWARD – Internationaler Technologiepreis der HANNOVER MESSE (in German). Springer. pp. 19–41. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-12834-0_3. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  4. "Prof. Wahlster überreichte Hermes Award 2012 bei der Hannover Messe" (PDF) (in German). German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Retrieved 2 June 2021.

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