After Dinner Speech by Dr
1 After Dinner Speech by Dr. Josef Rembser CERN, Geneva 14 September 2009 Celebration in honour of Professor Herwig Schopper’s 85 th Birthday I. Dear Friends, honourable, dear Professor Schopper! On 28 February of this year, you celebrated your 85th Birthday. This evening we are looking back on this memorable date, wishing you many happy returns of the day. You have been blessed with a life full of harmony and accomplishments, always keeping young physically and intellectually. This is a special blessing granted to a person: Love and family, friendships and encounters, giving and receiving, working and achieving acknowledgements and honours in a fulfilling profession and in challenging missions. Tomorrow, a scientific Colloquium will honour you as researcher and scientific teacher . Today, on the eve of the colloquium, I would like to speak about Herwig Schopper as a research politician and a research manager . My personal remarks and remembrances will focus, dear Herwig Schopper, on the guiding contributions you made in shaping, promoting and advancing science and research and their relevant policies in Germany and in Europe. 2 Professor Heuer, I am grateful for your invitation. It is a pleasure for me to give today's After-Dinner speech in honour of our jubilee. For many years during my service in the German Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT) in Bonn I had close personal and professional connections with you, dear Professor Schopper, regarding German science and research policy including CERN. II. In 1945, with the end of the 2 nd World War, Germany as guilty party and loser plunged the world and its own country into destruction and suffering, thus experiencing a historical catastrophe.
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