Fritz Paschke

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Fritz Paschke (* 2. March 1929 in Gösting ) is an Austrian electrical engineer and emeritus professors . From 1972 to 1975 he was rector of the Vienna University of Technology .

Life

Fritz Paschke was born in Gösting (at that time still an independent community, from 1938 part of Graz) where he also went to primary school. He then attended the high school for boys at the time , and later a secondary school again, in Lichtenfelsgasse in Graz, where he graduated in 1947 . He then studied electrical engineering for four semesters at the Graz University of Technology , later also communications engineering at the Vienna University of Technology , where he received his doctorate in 1955.

After a short assistantship with Herbert König, Paschke went to the United States at the David Sarnoff Research Center of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). There he was the first to demonstrate the non-linear behavior of cathode ray tubes , thereby creating new foundations for the design of amplifiers and for this he was awarded the RCA Laboratories Award for Major Contributions to the Nonlinear Theory of Electron Beams in 1960 . In 1961 Paschke moved to Siemens in Munich, where he worked as development manager at the tube factory until 1966. Paschke was also the head of a group of technicians who managed to increase the service life of disc triodes and thus contribute to the success of the Mariner IV mission (1964–1967).

In 1965 he was appointed full professor of the Institute for General Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Vienna, a position he held until his retirement in 1997. In 1970/71 he was dean of the faculty for mechanical engineering and electrical engineering at the university, and from 1972 to 1975 rector of the technical university . During his term of office, the completion of the new Electrotechnical Institute, the purchase and adaptation of the former Hotel Goldenes Lamm and Resselgasse 3 as well as the establishment of an inter-university computer network fell.

From 1974 to 1982 Paschke was Vice President of the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF). Since 1977 he has been a real member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . From 1978 he was managing director of the Wilhelm Exner Foundation. In 1985 he co-founded the Society for Micro- and Nanoelectronics (GMe) and was its president from 1985 to 1990.

In 1989, together with Josef Taus , Theobald Ettl and Manfred Leeb, he co-founded the Management Trust Holding (MTH), of which he has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board since it was founded. In 2008, Governor Jörg Haider awarded him the Great Decoration of Honor of the State of Carinthia for his contribution to Carinthia as a technology and business location . Paschke was involved in the establishment of the Infineon location in Villach.

Fritz Paschke lives in Vienna and has his second home in Bodensdorf on Lake Ossiacher See. At the Vienna University of Technology, a lecture hall was named after Fritz Paschke at the New Electrotechnical Institute building .

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • 1968: Transmitter tube for Mars probe Mariner IV and its further development , Verlag der Technische Hochschule, Vienna 1968
  • 1984: Microelectronics - Chances and Risken , Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1984

literature

  • Juliane Mikoletzky, Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber (editor): A Collection of Extraordinary Completeness / A Collection of Unusual Completeness: Die Rektorengalerie der Technische Universität Wien / The Gallery of Rectors of the TU Wien . Festschrift 200 Years of the Technical University of Vienna, Volume 13, Vienna, Böhlau-Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-20113-7 , page 146

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry on Fritz Paschke in the database of the Wilhelm Exner Medal Foundation .
  2. ↑ Management Trust Holding - Supervisory Board . Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c Vienna University of Technology: Fritz Paschke received the "Great Decoration of Honor of the State of Carinthia" . Article dated August 28, 2008, accessed February 13, 2016.
  4. ^ EI 10 Fritz Paschke lecture hall - TU Vienna . Retrieved February 20, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Paschke, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian electrical engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Gösting