Erich Weiß (engineer)

Erich Weiß (* 1939 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German geodesist and former university lecturer for land management and land management.

Live and act

Erich Weiß studied geodesy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn . He completed his studies in 1963 with his diploma thesis, supervised by Helmut Wolf , Possibilities and limits of the development of gravity anomalies in a power series for calculating the vertical deviation component of the central zone around the starting point . After completing his technical traineeship , he joined the land consolidation administration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia at the Office for Agricultural Regulation in Bonn in 1966 . In 1968 the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität made him Dr.-Ing. Dissertation topic was: A contribution to the geometry of refraction . From 1976 to 1988 he was a department head at the State Office for Agricultural Regulation North Rhine-Westphalia and then until 1990 head of the Office for Agricultural Regulation in Siegburg . In 1990 he followed a call from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. In the successor to Walter Seele , Weiß held the chair of land management and land management at the Faculty of Agriculture until 2004 .

White is dedicated to diverse research topics, including land consolidation, the urban reallocation , the property valuation , the land law and land tenure systems and surveying historical themes. Weiß is the author of numerous specialist publications.

Selection of offices and memberships

• Member of the reallocation committee of the city of Bornheim (1971–2009)
• Examiner at the Higher Examination Office for the higher technical administration service (1976-2007)
• Full member of the German Geodetic Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (since 1993, exempted)
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Museum of Surveying Technology (1996-2017)
• Honorary appraiser of the upper appraisal committee for property values in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (1998–2009)

Selection of honors

• Awarded the title of doctor agriculturae honoris causa by the Agricultural Faculty of the University of Rostock (1998)
• Awarded the title of doctor scientiae technicarum honoris causa by the Senate and Rectorate of the Gediminas University of Technology in Vilnius (2001)
• Eratosthenes Honorary Prize of the Association of Surveying Technology Museum (2019)

literature

• Life pictures in the change of the Prussian administration of the 19th and 20th centuries . In: Institute for Geodesy and Geoinformation (Ed.): Series of publications . No. 44 . Bonn 2014, p. Foreword and 129–132 ( uni-bonn.de [PDF]).

Web links

• Presentation by Prof. Erich Weiß on the website of the Professorship for Urban Development and Land Management
• Literature by and about Erich Weiß in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof., Dr.-Ing., Dr. sc. techn. hc, Dr. agr. hc Erich Weiss. Institute for Geodesy and Geoinformation - IGG Bonn Professorship for Urban Development and Land Management, accessed on February 21, 2019 .