Heinz Bartsch

Heinz Bartsch (born April 14, 1939 in Rathenow ) is a German ergonomist and engineer .

Life

Heinz Bartsch is the son of Heinrich Jung and his wife, Katharina Sophie Prims, born Bartsch. From 1946 he attended a primary school in Frankfurt an der Oder and stayed in children's homes for orphans . Sometimes foster parents raised him. In 1954 he began an apprenticeship in the steel and rolling mill Brandenburg for mill workers . He finished his apprenticeship after three years and completed his military service and was also a competitive athlete at the army sports clubs in Leipzig and Berlin. In 1959 and 1960 he worked as a rolling mill.

In the next few years, Bartsch completed several distance learning courses. In the period from 1960 to 1964, he also acted as a teacher for the rolling mill and took part in a distance learning course at the Riesa University of Applied Sciences , which he completed in 1964 and became a qualified engineer. That year he began a two-year distance learning course at the Pedagogical University of Güstrow and became a vocational school teacher. He completed this distance learning course in 1966 and passed his state pedagogical examination . He started another distance learning course the following year at the Technical University of Magdeburg . He finished this in 1973 and became a graduate engineer at the university.

In 1972 Bartsch became a lecturer at the Hennigsdorf University of Applied Sciences . He finished this in 1974 and went to Rostock University as senior scientific assistant for business administration . During this time, the Wismar Engineering University appointed him a doctorate in engineering in 1979 . His dissertation is on the design of technical documentation - using the example of selected areas of mechanical engineering . In 1981 he was awarded by the University of the teaching certificate of Industrial Engineering.

After his habilitation at the University of Rostock for Labor Studies / labor economics in 1984, to which it is a work called the Function and Structure of material working conditions and their effects on the rational use of labor capacity - Investigations in selected areas of production execution in shipbuilding East Germany wrote , Bartsch was not yet working as a professor. In 1987 the university appointed him a lecturer for work sciences , in 1991 his doctorate B was changed to a habilitation. From 1992 he lectured on previous law in ergonomics.

In 1994, the appointed Technical University of Cottbus to Professor of Industrial Engineering and director of its Institute for Occupational and Social Sciences. From 1996 he attended several faculty councils and held other positions in university self-administration. The Slovak Technical University in Bratislava awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1998. Two years later, he acted as the representative of the state government of Brandenburg for the Expo 2000 in Hanover, where he also received the gold medal.

In 2004 Bartsch retired . Three years later he received the Medal of Honor from the Technical University of Bratislava, as it celebrated its 70th anniversary. In 2009 the University of Technology Tehran presented him with its certificate of honor.

Web links

• Entry on Heinz Bartsch in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
• Homepage of Heinz Bartsch