Hans-Erich Weinschenk

Hans-Erich Weinschenk (born December 11, 1927 in Rostock ; † May 4, 1986 in Magdeburg ) was a German engineer and professor of electrical engineering . He was one of the pioneers of arc and plasma technology with innovative applications and was a co-founder of engineering training in the field of electrotechnological processes in the entire German-speaking area. He was dean , 1st prorector , and from 1970 to 1976 he held the office of rector of the Magdeburg University of Technology.

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Hans-Erich Weinschenk came from a family of merchants from Rostock, where he grew up. After attending the relevant schools with a two-year break due to military service during the last two years of the war, he graduated from high school in 1947 . He studied from 1947 to 1949 at the University of Rostock in the field of physics . He then went to the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the TU Dresden , where he obtained his degree in electrical engineering in 1953 as a graduate engineer.

Weinschenk started his career in 1953 as an employee of the Central Institute for Welding Technology (ZIS) in Halle (Saale) . Here he soon became head of the electrical engineering work group . In 1955 he set up the research area “welding machines and controls”.

In 1956 he received the additional qualification of a welding engineer due to a final examination . Weinschenk his doctorate in 1959 at the Freiberg to Dr. rer. nat. in the field of electric welding.

In 1962 he became head of the research department at ZIS, which included a staff of around 70 specialist engineers. Weinschenk was thus responsible for all welding research within the Central Institute for Welding Technology and thus for the entire GDR.

Since 1956 he has been a permanent lecturer at the TH Magdeburg. In 1963 he was appointed professor with a teaching assignment at the TH Magdeburg. At the same time he took over the management of the Institute for Electrical Engineering , which was founded by Ernst Stumpp , and the associated subject area.

Weinschenk dedicated himself to building up the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the TH Magdeburg, which was founded in 1965 and which he headed as the founding dean from 1965 to 1968. Particular attention was paid to the establishment of an institute for low-voltage technology (electronics) .

From 1968 to 1970 Weinschenk held the position of 1st Vice Rector. From 1970 to 1976 he was rector of the TH Magdeburg, succeeding Manfred Beckert, and from 1971 to 1976 he was a member of the SED district leadership in Magdeburg. Reinhard Probst followed him in the office of rector.

In the Chamber of Technology he was chairman of the mechanical engineering trade association from 1965 to 1969 and thus also a member of the executive committee.

In the years after the third university reform of the GDR in 1968, his chair was part of the technical cybernetics and electrical engineering section (TK / ET) (founding director: Heinz Töpfer ). During these years Weinschenk made a noteworthy contribution to the profile of the section with regard to practice-oriented teaching and industry-related research as well as to the development of young scientists.

Weinschenk was considered an internationally recognized specialist in the field of arc and plasma technology . In 1970 he was therefore appointed chairman of the Central Working Group (ZAK) "Electrotechnological Processes" of the GDR Research Council.

Well-known industrial experts, scientists and several professors have emerged from Weinschenk's academic environment.

Memberships and honors (selection)

• 1963 Honored Technician of the People
• 1965 to 1969 member of the Presidium of the Chamber of Technology
• 1971 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
• 1971 to 1976 member of the SED district leadership in Magdeburg
• 1974 Hero of Labor

Publications (selection)

As a specialist in welding technology, he wrote numerous scientific articles, patents and gave numerous lectures, which also earned him international recognition.

• The electric arc and its application using the example of inert gas welding, 1955.
• Contribution to the change in the melting character of coated electrodes through the electrical connection circuit. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1960.
• The importance of arc physical considerations for the further development of welding technology. In: ZIS-Mitteilungen 11, 1966.

literature

• Carmen Schäfer: Hans-Erich Weinschenk. In: Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon 19th and 20th centuries, p. 784. [1]
• Helmut Asmus: History of the City of Magdeburg. 1975.
• Reinhard Probst among others: Curriculum for training at universities and colleges in the basic study of mechanical engineering in the GDR. MHF, Berlin 1975.
• 25 years of the Otto von Guericke Technical University. In: Scientific journal of the Technical University of Magdeburg, vol. 22, 1978, no. 3–5.
• 1953-1983. 30 years of the Otto-von-Guericke University of Applied Sciences in Magdeburg. In: Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, Technische Hochschule Magdeburg, vol. 27, no.3, 1983.
• Manfred Beckert : Johann Beckmann (biography). Teubner, Leipzig 1983.
• Mechanical and plant engineering in the Magdeburg region at the beginning of the 21st century. Future based on tradition. Delta-D publishing house, Axel Kühling, Magdeburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-935831-51-2 .
• Peter Neumann (Hrsg.): Magdeburg's automation technology in transition - from industrial to research location. Authors: Christian Diedrich , Rolf Höltge, Ulrich Jumar , Achim Kienle, Reinhold Krampitz, Günter Müller, Peter Neumann, Konrad Pusch, Helga Rokosch, Barbara Schmidt, Ulrich Schmucker, Gerhard Unger, Günter Wolf. Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg ; Institute for Automation and Communication Magdeburg (ifak), Magdeburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-944722-75-7 .

Web links

• Website of the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Erich Weinschenk: Contribution to the change in the melting character of coated electrodes through the electrical connection circuit. Dissertation, Bergakademie Freiberg, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences 1959.