Friedrich Eckstein (engineer)

Friedrich Eckstein (born December 26, 1933 in Darmstadt ; † November 2018 ) was a university professor in mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt (TUD). He was instrumental in establishing and making scientific use of international contacts at TUD.

Life

Born in Darmstadt in 1933, Friedrich Eckstein graduated from high school in 1954 at the Ludwigs Realgymnasium there (today Lichtenbergschule ). He began studying at the Technical University of Darmstadt and was awarded a Dr.-Ing. (PhD engineer) PhD .

Friedrich Eckstein had been married since 1962 and has two children.

After his habilitation in 1968, he received a professorship in the mechanical engineering department at the Technical University of Darmstadt, which he held until his retirement in 1999.

Research and Teaching

In his scientific work in the field of production technology and machine tools , Friedrich Eckstein dealt primarily with tool and fixture construction, with cutting and forming machine tools and production metrology, including quality assurance for this.

In terms of a practical connection, he developed a problem-oriented accompanying program for small and medium-sized industry, which as a "technically innovative company analysis" on the one hand introduces the students to operational practice and on the other hand shows the companies approaches and solutions for rationalization steps and quality assurance.

International contacts

Between 1975 and 1980 Friedrich Eckstein stayed several times in East Asian countries in order to adjust the mechanical engineering training to the "Darmstadt model" on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Science , for example at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and the Chungnam National University in Daejeon (South Korea).

As Vice President of TUD, he was then responsible for external scientific contacts at TUD.This task took him back to university partners in Thailand , South Korea , China and Ulan Bator in Mongolia , in order to make study plans in mechanical engineering internationally compatible.

In this context, Eckstein was also an external member of the doctoral committee of the University of Novi Sad , Yugoslavia, for several years .

Inner German turning point

In 1990 Friedrich Eckstein was commissioned by the Hessian state government and the Treuhandanstalt Berlin to transfer five grinding machine factories in Berlin (BWF, Mikrosa), Chemnitz (grinding machine factory) and Leipzig into the free market economy . From this former VEB , the Schleifring Group could emerge under the leadership of the Körber Group .

Outside employment

Friedrich Eckstein had a particular fondness for railways. He developed a renovation concept for the Achenseebahn , a narrow-gauge rack railway on Lake Achensee in Tyrol, Austria, and thus helped to prevent its closure.

It also dealt with the history of the Gersprenz Valley Railway , a private branch line in the Odenwald.

Friedrich Eckstein dedicated himself to local research and the preservation of cultural monuments in southern Hesse on a voluntary basis. He is a co-founder of the Museumsstrasse Odenwald-Bergstrasse association , which is dedicated to this task. Friedrich Eckstein worked on milestones in the history of technology in the Odenwald in particular .

Publications

• New technologies in vocational training . Science and Technology Series THD 1988 (co-author)
• Cultural discoveries Odenwald-Bergstrasse . Verlag Darmstädter Echo 1995 (co-editor)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Eckstein. In: VRM grief. November 24, 2018, accessed April 12, 2020 . 
2. ↑ From ore transport to gravel railway - the history of the small railway in the Gersprenztal , Museumsstraße Odenwald-Bergstraße, Fränkisch-Crumbach 1997, ISBN 3-929775-04-2

• German Scholars Calendar, Walter de Gruyter Verlag, Berlin New York 1992