Award ceremony
Alexander Berg receives European Safety Award for Commercial Vehicles
Alexander Berg is delighted to receive the European Commercial Vehicle Safety Award. The former head of DEKRA Accident Research and the DEKRA Crash Test Center was honored at the 2018 annual congress of the European Association for Accident Research and Analysis (EVU) in Dubrovnik.
He started working at DEKRA in October 1982, initially in the Accident Reconstruction department, and moved to DEKRA Accident Research in 1985. From 1996 to 2006, he was Head of Accident Research and Crash Test Center at DEKRA Automobil GmbH and drove the continuous expansion of the Crash Test Center in Neumünster. Until his retirement in 2017, he was Manager International Projects & Business Development at the DEKRA Technology Center.
The graduate mechanical engineer has been actively involved in several research projects and is co-owner of three patents in the fields of motorcycle and commercial vehicle safety. For decades, he has contributed his knowledge at specialist events worldwide and on several national and international committees. He also initiated the DEKRA symposia "Safety of commercial vehicles" and "Load securing on road vehicles", platforms for experts from all over the world, which recently merged into the new event format DEKRA Future Congress Commercial Vehicles.
Berg regularly lectures on commercial vehicle safety at the University of Graz and is a lecturer at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University, Horb campus. At DEKRA, he continues to be active in the training of prospective test engineers. He is also still active as an author of specialist articles and as a speaker. "I am delighted to be able to honor a long-standing colleague with the European Safety Award for Commercial Vehicles this year," said EVU President Jörg Ahlgrimm, who gave the laudatory speech. "His tireless commitment to truck safety has always been a role model - from the first DEKRA commercial vehicle crash test in the 1980s, for which he designed the entire test setup and all the necessary equipment, to the sustained internationalization of DEKRA's accident research work." In 2017, Fredrich Claezon from Sweden was awarded the safety prize.
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