text: The society acknowledges individual achievement with prizes and awards, including medals originally conferred by the predecessor organizations DChG and VDCh:
  * Hofmann Medal (Hofmann Denkmünze), first awarded to Henri Moissan, 1903
  * Liebig Medal (Liebig Denkmünze), first awarded to Adolf von Baeyer, 1903
  * Gmelin-Beilstein Medal (Gmelin-Beilstein Denkmünze), first awarded to Paul Walden and Maximilian Pflücke, 1954
  * Meyer-Galow Award For Business Chemistry (Der Meyer-Galow-Preis für Wirtschaftschemie), first awarded to Susanne Röhrig, 2012 [https://en.gdch.de/gdch/foundations/meyer-galow-foundation.html].