Eugene-Georg Woschni

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Eugen-Georg Woschni (born February 18, 1929 in Berlin-Tempelhof ) is a German communications engineer and university professor .

life and work

Eugen-Georg Woschnis' father was a senior councilor at the Reichsbahn. He graduated from high school in Dresden and then studied electrical engineering there at the Technical University of Dresden (THD). He received his degree in engineering as the last student of Heinrich Barkhausen in 1951 with honors. Woschni received his doctorate in 1953 from Barkhausen with the dissertation topic “Symptoms of entrainment in FM transmitters with impedance tubes”.

He then worked as a senior assistant at the THD Institute for Weak Current Technology under the direction of Hans Frühauf . Here he completed his habilitation in 1956 with the topic “The quasi-static and dynamic distortions of frequency-modulated oscillations in quadrupoles, especially in the filter media of FM receivers and transmitters, taking into account the tube properties”. During this time he continued to work on Heinrich Barkhausen's textbook on electron tubes , and after his death he was responsible for all editions up to 1965.

In 1957 he was appointed full professor at the Karl-Marx Stadt University of Mechanical Engineering . There he initiated a new training course for control engineering at the Institute for Electrical Engineering and was Vice-Rector for Research from 1959 to 1962 . Under his leadership, the establishment of a faculty for electrical engineering began in 1965 , which he headed as its first dean until 1968.

From 1965 to 1968 Woschni was the chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for Electrical Engineering at the Ministry of Higher Education and Technical Education (Minister: Ernst-Joachim Gießmann ). Since 1966 Woschni was head of group 2 “Basics of Electronics and Automation Technology” of the Research Council and at the same time a member of the board. This group was also assigned to the central working group “Control and regulation technology” (ZAK chairman: Heinz Töpfer ).

Woschni worked in various ways in the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO) , in particular as a founding member of the Technical Committees Education and Theory . As a national member organization in IMEKO, the Scientific and Technical Society for Measurement and Automation Technology (WGMA) was active in the Berlin Chamber of Technology (Chairman 1982 to 1991: Werner Richter ). Here Woschni was also active in the field of measurement and information systems.

Woschni received invitations as a visiting professor to Australia , Finland and Austria . In 1978 he worked as a visiting scientist in the USA at the University of California, Berkeley, with Lotfi Zadeh , the creator of the theory of fuzzy systems ( fuzzy controller, etc.).

In 1992 Woschni was appointed full professor for communications engineering at Chemnitz University of Technology, and he held this professorship until his retirement in 1994.

His scientific publications reveal a broad specialist spectrum and, in addition to many specialist lectures at national and international level (IMEKO etc.), also include numerous magazine publications and more than 50 specialist and textbooks in several editions. At the same time he belonged together with G. Brack , H. Fuchs, G. Paulin, R. Piegert and G. Schwarze to the book editors of the "series automation technology" at Verlag Technik Berlin, which under the editing of J. Reichenbach one with almost 250 volumes reached considerable scope.

In 1981 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the TU Dresden. He was honored as an Honored University Professor of the GDR as well as with the Patriotic Order of Merit.

Woschni became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in 1976 , a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig in 1985 , and from 1995 to 2001 he worked here as secretary of the technical science class and was also a member of the executive committee. From 1996 to 2000 he was a member of the Senate of the German Academy of Sciences in Mainz. He is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).

Fonts (selection)

  • Heinrich Barkhausen, Eugen-Georg Woschni: Textbook of the electron tubes and their technical applications. Vol. 3. Feedback . 5th edition. Hirzel, 1949.
  • Frequency modulation . 2nd Edition. Verlag Technik, Berlin 1962.
  • Information technology: signal, system, information . Hüthig, Heidelberg 1974, ISBN 978-3-7785-0278-5 .
  • Manfred Krauss , Ernst Kutschbach, Eugen-Georg Woschni: Handbook of data acquisition . 3rd edition, Verlag Technik Berlin, 1988, ISBN 3341005161 .
  • Lexicon of microelectronics . VDE Verlag, Berlin, Offenbach 1992, ISBN 978-3-8007-1792-7 .
  • Hans Hart , Werner Lotze, Eugen-Georg Woschni: Measurement accuracy . 3. Edition. Oldenbourg, 1997, ISBN 978-3-486-22774-1 .
  • A century of information technology is visited: session reports of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig . S. Hirzel Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7776-1611-7 .
  • Somebody is breathing: the bizarre from the everyday life of a Saxon scientist . Tauchaer Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89772-180-7 .
  • Living in three German states: a Saxon reports . Tauchaer Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-89772-215-6 .
  • Approximate considerations versus computer solutions ?: A contribution to the discussion about teaching content . S. Hirzel Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7776-2274-3 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. tu-chemnitz.de: TU Spektrum 3/1995 - 30 years ago: Foundation of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering
  2. tu-dresden.de: Honorary Doctors of the TH / TU Dresden