Conditions of Participation

  • All amateur photographers are eligible to participate in KRÖGER Engineering’s »‘CID in Action’ Photo Competition«. Excluded are all persons involved in the organisation of this competition, the employees of the company Ernst-Günther Kröger e.K., Schwentinental and their relatives.
  • Participation is free of charge, i.e. the organiser does not charge a fee as a basic requirement for participation in this photo competition.
  • The minimum age for participants is 18.
  • The photo competition begins on March 16, 2026.
  • The photo competition ends on September 15, 2026.
  • Cash prizes will be paid out in euros to the finalists via bank transfer*.
    1st place: € 1,000.00 4th place: € 400.00
    2nd place: € 800.00 5th place: € 300.00
    3rd place: € 500.00 6th place: € 150.00

*Bank transfers in the so-called SEPA payment area are usually free of charge. This applies to transfers within a country as well as to cross-border euro transfers in the SEPA area.
In total, the fees for transfers to non-EU or EEA countries can be up to ten percent of the transfer amount. The organiser does NOT cover any bank fees that may be incurred. If any fees are incurred for currency conversions or other transfer costs, these are to be borne by the finalists of this photo competition themselves.

  • Cash payout of winnings is expressly excluded.
  • Passing on or transferring the cash prizes to other people, even on behalf of the winners themselves, is excluded.
  • The purpose of this photo competition is to have photos of our CID in daily use, which we would never be able to produce ourselves in the desired form. For this reason, classic product photos of our CID are not eligible for entry in the competition.
  • Only photos for which the mandatory fields of the entry form on the landing page have been filled out will be accepted.
  • A jury** of four people will choose the winning photos. The jury consists of a professional photographer, a media expert, an employee of the Kröger company and the company owner.
  • Legal recourse is excluded.
  • The winners in places 1 to 6 will be informed of the result one month after the end of the photo competition to their private e-mail address. On this occasion, you will be asked whether or not you would agree to a website announcement of the result of the photo competition, stating the ranking and your name. This is the only provision of the entire Conditions of Participation for which you can withhold your consent. – All other consent is and remains required without restriction.
  • The participants assure the organiser that the photos were taken in compliance with occupational safety, that no third parties have been affected and that they themselves have the necessary professional qualifications and approvals to be able and allowed to take the photos from the locations.
  • The organiser is to be held harmless from any claims for damages to the photo equipment or mobile phone in connection with the taking of photos for this photo competition. It is the personal duty of each individual participant to take due care of their own photo equipment.
  • The photos and data of participants who have not been placed as a finalist will be deleted from our data carriers by five weeks after the end of the event.
  • As a participant, even as a non-finalist, you will be mentioned at the end of the event, without stating your name, on our website for statistical purposes.
  • The participants of the winning photos / or photo series agree to unrestricted commercial use (of the right of use that is unlimited in time and space) by the organising company, Ernst-Günther Kröger e.K., KRÖGER Engineering, on its websites, printed media, newsletters, training materials and product pages. The finalists at the end of the competition also agree to the data storage of their name and photos for an unlimited period of time.
  • The participants guarantee and assure that, as the sender, they are the author of the photo or the person depicted in the photo and indemnify the organiser against claims by third parties for injunctive relief or damages.
  • As the author of your image / photo, you agree to the source citation outside the illustration itself, at the bottom in small-print format: © max. one first name, last name
  • The image or photo material to be submitted must meet the following criteria:
    • A maximum of 6 photos per participant are allowed
    • The maximum file size per photo is 8 MB
    • Photos in file format JPG / JPEG are accepted
    • At least 72 dpi
    • Minimum pixel dimensions: 2000 px longest side
    • Colour photos only
    • Portrait and/or landscape orientation
    • No classic product photos
    • No collages
    • No graphic elements
    • No AI
    • No obvious image manipulations
    • No watermarks or frames
    • No text elements, name of the photographer, copyright notices

Our jury pays particular attention to the quality of the photo composition and to the idea of the image in relation to the competition theme. Show our CID in daily action together with typical accessories or other equipment on or in the wind energy plant. The overall impression of the photo must fit, from the main character CID to the image composition. Take “the right picture” from your gut feeling. Maybe capturing an overall impression of the CID makes a good shot or is “less” sometimes “more”. In any case, the CID is an absolute “must”. Whether you make use of the focus point or the brightness slider on your smartphone or mobile phone is up to you. Make us curious and win.

  • By participating in this photo competition, you as the author assure that all rights to the images/photos belong to you and that there are no objections to publication (as already mentioned in the media listed above) and, in particular, that the rights of persons depicted are protected and that no personal rights are violated. If one or more people can be seen in the photo, the persons concerned must agree that the photo is or could be published. As the author, it is in your own interest to obtain a written declaration of consent from any persons depicted.
  • Sexist images/photos and those that depict or glorify violence or otherwise violate the applicable law are excluded from the photo competition.
  • Violations of the Conditions of Participation and/or technical requirements for the submitted image or photo material will be detected electronically and will lead to exclusion from the photo competition.
  • Participation in this photo competition is expressly only possible if you agree to the data protection regulations and the Conditions of Participation.
  • As a participant, you agree that there is only one placing per person in this photo competition. Multiple placings per participant is expressly excluded.
  • With the payment of the prize money for the individual placings, the rights of use for the submitted photo data of the winning participants are transferred to the organiser. Please note that the photos will be publicly accessible worldwide as part of a publication on the organizer´s website.
  • If the theoretical case occurs that fewer eligible photos from different participants meeting these Conditions of Participation are uploaded than there are different placings, then only these participants will be placed in order. The remaining placings are cancelled without replacement.
  • The organiser and its media experts are entitled to edit the usable photo material in the suitable dimensions, formats and cut-outs for advertising purposes and to use it publicly.
  • The organizer reserves the right to terminate the photo competition prematurely, in whole or in part, or to modify its course at any time, even without prior notice, if it is not possible to guarantee the proper conduct of the photo competition for technical reasons (e.g., computer virus, manipulation, cyberattack, threat of war, etc.) or legal reasons. In the event of an extraordinary termination of the photo competition, no claims may be asserted by the participants against the organizer.
  • Current information about the photo competition can be viewed at any time at the following link:www.kroegerkrane.de/fotowettbewerb.

 

** The jury's primary responsibility is fairness to the authors/creators. The judging of digital images is not public. Should a member of the jury be unable to attend, a replacement will be found as soon as possible. The jury can generally function effectively with a panel of three. Observers are also permitted.

 

CID = Chain Interlocking Suspension Device

Status: February 2026

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