Heinz Draheim

Heinz Draheim (born November 5, 1915 in Schönfeld , Dramburg district ; † April 25, 2012 ) was a German professor of geodesy and long-time rector of the University of Karlsruhe .

Life

After graduating from high school in Berlin, Draheim studied geodesy at the Technical University of Berlin. From 1939 to 1943 he took part in the Second World War until he was taken prisoner of war. After his release in 1947, he began to work as a research assistant at the Technical University of Berlin . There he received his doctorate in 1952 as Dr.-Ing. and completed his habilitation in 1958 on "Apospheres as geodetic computing surfaces".

In 1959 Draheim was appointed to an extraordinary professorship for geodesy at the TH Karlsruhe at the Geodetic Institute, of which he became director in 1960. From 1965 to 1966 he was dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Surveying. Draheim was rector of the Fridericiana for a total of 15 years, from 1968 to 1983. Hermann Mälzer took over his chair in Geodesy II between 1970 and 1979 as a substitute.

In addition to research and teaching, Draheim was president of the umbrella association for surveying engineers FIG , from 1970 to 1972 , of which he was made honorary president in 1974.

From 1962 he was the chief editor of the journal Allgemeine Vermessungs-Nachrichten . In addition, he was editor of the "Wichmann Collection", a series of books and publications on geodetic textbooks.

Honors

Medal of Honor of the City of Karlsruhe (1982)
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1st Class (1981)
Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg (1984)
Commander in the Order of Palmes Académiques
Honorary curator of the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences - Technology and Economy
Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Budapest
Honorary member of the "Society for the Maintenance of Scientific Contacts in the House of Heinrich Hertz" eV
Honorary member of the German Association for Surveying
Honorary President of the Fédération Internationale des Géomètres (FIG)
Honorary Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

literature

(Selection)

The universities facing the challenge of the 1970s: Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Heinz Draheim , published by Heinz Gerhard Kahle, Karlsruhe 1980
Festschrift for Heinz Draheim on his 80th birthday, Eugen Kuntz on his 70th birthday, Hermann Mälzer on his 70th birthday , published by the Geodetic Institute of the University of Karlsruhe (TH) Karlsruhe 1995 ISBN 3-00-000220-0

See more below .

Web links

Literature by and about Heinz Draheim in the catalog of the German National Library
Heinz Draheim in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe
Obituary of the KIT
Obituary of the avn (dynamic link to the pdf on the page)

Individual evidence

↑ Bernhard Heck : “Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hermann Mälzer passed away ”. In: zfv - Journal for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management , Volume 143, No. 6/2018, ISSN 1618-8950 , p. 411 f., Here p. 411.

personal data
SURNAME	Draheim, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German geodesist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 5, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schönfeld , Dramburg district
DATE OF DEATH	April 25, 2012

[1] Bernhard Heck : “Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hermann Mälzer passed away ”. In: zfv - Journal for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management , Volume 143, No. 6/2018, ISSN 1618-8950 , p. 411 f., Here p. 411.