On the occasion of the 150th birthday of Otto Diels, the Otto Diels Institute of Organic Chemistry will host a festive symposium on January 23, 2026. In addition to a lecture on memories of Otto Diels by Dr. Jochen Scharrenberg, the husband of Otto Diels’s late granddaughter, three doctoral candidates from the respective research groups (Staubitz, van Gemmeren, Lindhorst) will present scientific talks on their doctoral research projects. The highlight of the event will be the guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Robert Francke, a renowned scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT) in Rostock.