Award in the field of applied research, named after the German forestry scientist and zoologist Karl Leopold Escherich, who founded the German Society for Applied Entomology (one of the predecessor societies of the DGaaE) in 1913.

Statutes [in German] for the award of the Escherich Medal.

The composition of the Board of Trustees can be found on the page "Curatorships of the DGaaE".

Year	Recipient	Laudation
1986	Prof. Dr Heinrich Schmutterer	Mitt. DGaaE 5: 15–18, 1987
1989	Prof. Dr Jean Pierre Vité	Mitt. DGaaE 7: 14–17, 1989
1991	Prof. Dr Werner Kloft	Mitt. DGaaE 8: 7–8, 1992
1993	Prof. Dr Helmut van Emden	Mitt. DGaaE 9: 1–2, 1994
1993	Prof. Dr Theo Wetzel	Mitt. DGaaE 9: 3–4, 1994
1995	Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schwenke	Mitt. DGaaE 10: 9–12, 1995
1997	Prof. Kurt Robert Simon Ascher	Mitt. DGaaE 11: 15–17, 1997
1999	Dr Horst Bathon	Mitt. DGaaE 12: 7–9, 1999
2001	Dr Norbert Becker	Mitt. DGaaE 13: 1–6, 2001
2003	Prof. Dr Helmut Zwölfer	Mitt. DGaaE 14: 5–8, 2003
2005	Prof. Dr Wittko Francke	Mitt. DGaaE 15: 7–10, 2005
2005	Dr Erich Dickler / Dr Jürg Huber	Mitt. DGaaE 15: 11–17, 2005
2007	Dr Anna Levinson / Prof. Dr Hermann Levinson	Mitt. DGaaE 16: 9–13, 2007
2009	Dr Reinhard Albert	Mitt. DGaaE 17: 13–18, 2009
2011	Prof. Dr Urs Wyss	Mitt. DGaaE 18: 17–22, 2012
2013	Prof. Dr Wolfgang Nentwig	Mitt. DGaaE 19: 9–11, 2014
2015	Prof. Dr Ralf-Udo Ehlers	Mitt. DGaaE 20: 9–13, 2015
2017	Prof. Dr Konrad Dettner	Mitt. DGaaE 21: 13–16, 2018
2019	Prof. Dr Fred Klingauf	Mitt. DGaaE 22: 11–16, 2020
2023	Prof. Dr Monika Hilker