Alexander Wittkowsky

Alexander Wittkowsky (born September 4, 1936 in Berlin ; † February 14, 2018 in Frankfurt am Main ) was the first elected President of the Technical University of Berlin in its new form as a group university . Subsequently, as rector of the University of Bremen, he played a major role in building this "new type" university.

Life

Wittkowsky grew up in Berlin, where he attended the Goethe Gymnasium and later the Technical University. He studied shipbuilding and process engineering and graduated with a degree in engineering.

From January 2, 1962, Wittkowsky was a scientific assistant and from winter semester 69/70 senior engineer at the Rudolf Drawe Institute for Fuel Technology at the Chair of Fuel Technology in the Department of Energy and Process Engineering of the Faculty (V) for Mechanical Engineering of the TU Berlin, which from the winter semester 71/72 was renamed in Faculty (10) - Process Engineering. As chief engineer, Wittkowsky was elected as the first President of the TU Berlin on May 5, 1970, two months before his doctorate, with effect from May 12, 1970 to May 31, 1977, without holding a chair. After his presidency at the TU Berlin, Wittkowsky worked from 1977 to 1982 as rector of the University of Bremen . In protest against the new version of the state university law enforced by the Bremen Senator for Science Horst Werner Franke , which partially withdrew the reforms of the founding phase of the university, Wittkowsky resigned from the office of rector on March 23, 1982. He was then appointed to a C4 professorship in the field of production engineering with the dedication “Technology Development and Technology Design” (TT), which he held until his retirement in 2001. He was on leave for two years, from 1990 to 1992, to manage projects for the German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in India, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, among others.

Alexander Wittkowsky has shaped the TU Berlin and the University of Bremen in essential questions of their development through his active, committed work.

Individual evidence

1. ^ University mourns former rector Professor Alexander Wittkowsky. University of Bremen, February 20, 2018, accessed on February 21, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Obituary in Der Tagesspiegel of February 25, 2018, p. 15
3. ↑ ^{a b} Alexander Wittkowsky in the Munzinger archive , accessed on July 17, 2013 ( beginning of the article freely accessible)
4. ^ Timeline for the history of the University of Bremen. March 2018, accessed June 15, 2018 . 

Rectors of the University of Bremen

Thomas von der Vring , founding rector (1970 to 1973) | Hans-Josef Steinberg (1974 to 1977) | Alexander Wittkowsky (1977 to 1982) | Jürgen Timm (1982 to 2002) | Wilfried Müller (2002 to 2012 | Bernd Scholz-Reiter (since September 2012)