Heinz Hoffmann (engineer)

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Heinz J. Hoffmann (born June 27, 1923 in Schifferstadt , † January 30, 1999 in Sarasota FL) was a German-American doctor, educator and engineer, member of the Apollo project team and value analysis specialist.

Life

The son of the head of the Schifferstadt community savings bank Theobald Hoffmann ("Dewald") earned his Abitur and was called up for labor and military service. After the end of the war, he was able to begin his medical studies at the University of Mainz, which he continued in the USA from 1949, where he also completed an engineering degree. At Reeves Instrument Corporation on Long Island he was initially employed as a designer and at the same time committed to working in the Apollo space program; later he was appointed to the company's technical director. As a member of the Republicans , he was also politically active.

At the age of 45, Hoffmann studied and received his doctorate in education and then received a professorship at the private Sarasota University. He not only taught his American experience in value analysis and creativity at university, but also made them available to German industry as early as the 1970s. He was a consultant for the VDI working group “Value Management” for 15 years.

Publications in German

  • Value analysis:
    • Value analysis. A way to develop new sources of rationalization. 2. through and supplementary edition Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-503-02334-8 . (1st edition 1979.)
    • Value analysis. The answer to KAIZEN. Through and revised Edition. Wirtschaftsverlag Langen-Mueller / Herbig in FAHerbig Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 1993. ISBN 3-7844-7303-2 .
    • Value analysis; The western answer to Kaizen. Verlag Ullstein GmbH, Frankfurt / M. – Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-548-35408-4 . (Licensed edition.)
  • creativity
    • Creativity techniques for managers; Verlag Moderne Industrie AG Zuerich, Switzerland 1980
    • Creativity Techniques for Managers, 2nd edition Verlag modern Industrie AG & Co. Buchverlag Landsberg 1987
    • Creativity the challenge of mind and competence, printul Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Muenchen 1996, ISBN 3-925575-26-X
  • vitamin
    • Beisel / Hoffmann The vitamin report, health, fitness, vitality, Printul verlagsgesellschaft mbh Munich 1987 ISBN 3-925575-08-1
  • politics
    • Envious and feared, The Germans from the perspective of others, Universitas Verlag in FAHerbig Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH Munich 1992

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Wagner, Gerhard Sellinger: Schifferstadt on old postcards. A local history walk through an up-and-coming village. Geier-Druck-Verlag, Schifferstadt 2005, p. 52 and two Schifferstadt contemporary witness memories (inquired in Schifferstadt from Agiro on April 23, 2011)
  2. ↑ Schifferstadter Tagblatt, Saturday February 13, 1999. ZDB -ID 1019722-9
  3. ↑ VDI Nachrichten July 25, 1997 No. 30
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoffmann, Heinz J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American physician, educator and engineer
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Schifferstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1999
Place of death Sarasota , USA