Christian Lippold

Christian Lippold (born February 18, 1965 in Saalfeld ) holds the professorship for the design of road traffic systems and was Dean of the Faculty of Transport Science “Friedrich List” at the Technical University of Dresden until 2012 .

After high school and military service, Lippold first completed an apprenticeship as a concrete worker and worked on construction sites for a year and a half. He then studied civil engineering from 1986 to 1991 , specializing in road design and road construction at the University of Transport . He then moved to the Technical University of Darmstadt as a research assistant for four years , where he received his doctorate in 1996.

From 1995 he worked as a general manager and from 1999 as a department manager at DEGES , particularly in the field of motorway construction; Among other things, he was responsible there for the implementation of the Strelasund crossing . In 2001 he was appointed professor at the TU Dresden as the successor to Günter Weise . Since 1999 Lippold has been working for the Research Association for Roads and Transport , from which he awarded the Max-Erich-Feuchtinger / Bruno-Wehner commemorative coin in 2008 for excellent scientific-theoretical and practical work in the field of planning, design and the Operation of city and country roads was awarded.

In 2006 he took over the position of Dean of the Faculty of Transportation Sciences from Gerd-Axel Ahrens . In 2010 he was re-elected in this role. His second term ended on December 17, 2012. Hartmut Fricke was elected as his successor .

Lippold has been the publisher of the road planning manual Der Elsner since 2011 .

From 2020, Lippold will switch to Autobahn GmbH des Bundes for three years . Reinhard Koettnitz, who has been honorary professor since 2014, takes over his chair.

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Lippold in the catalog of the German National Library