Helmar Krupp

Helmar Krupp, born in Göttingen in 1966

Helmar Krupp (born June 1, 1924 in Stary Targ ; † April 13, 2007 ) was a German physicist and science politician. He was involved as a social and innovation researcher and founding director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI). He is considered to be the inventor of the modern Fraunhofer model.

Life

After studying physics at the University of Jena , he was in 1953 with a thesis on the thermomagnetic oxygen measurement at the Technical University of Karlsruhe to Dr. Ing. PhD , in 1967 habilitated settling in Karlsruhe with the English-language magazine "Particle Adhesion". and became an associate professor there. In 1971 he worked at the Battelle Institute in Frankfurt am Main. Helmar Krupp worked for the Fraunhofer Society from 1971 . In 1972 he founded the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research in Karlsruhe . He developed the institute into an internationally renowned center for innovation research and was its director until his retirement in 1989. Together with Max Syrbe and Klaus Schröter, he played a key role in the orientation of today's Fraunhofer Society as an applied research institution.

In 1990 and 1992 the professor emeritus at the University of Karlsruhe was visiting professor at the University of Tokyo . In addition to his work at the ISI, he was best known for his book “Zukunftsland Japan. Global evolution and momentum ”, in which he deals with the dynamics of modern Japan.

He often took a decisive stand on upcoming technical and social developments or supported appropriate calls. In 1984 he dampened expectations regarding the creation of new jobs through microelectronics. But this new technology would bring significant changes for telecommunications .

In 1997, when he ended his professional career in futurology, he expressed skepticism about the role of technology assessment studies . According to his impression, the direction is that it could "degenerate into a manipulable marketing tool for large-scale technology".

He signed an appeal to the Federal President Roman Herzog for his “Berlin Speech” in 1997, when it came to exploiting and developing existing opportunities in Germany. In 2001 he signed an appeal to US President George W. Bush . Most recently Krupp lived in Weingarten .

Awards

• 1967 DECHEMA laureate "Theoretical and experimental work on the adherence of particles to solid surfaces"

Fonts

• Determination of the general solution of the Schrödinger equation for Coulomb potential . Akademie-Verlag, 1950
• Theory of thermomagnetic oxygen measurement . Karlsruhe 1953
• Technology policy in view of the environmental disaster . Physica Verlag, 1990, ISBN 3-7908-0493-2
• Energy Politics and Schumpeter Dynamics: Japan's Policy Between Short-term Wealth and Long-term Global Welfare . Springer-Verlag 1992, ISBN 3-540-70104-4 , together with I. Furugaki, K. Fujime, H. Funabashi
• Japan, the land of the future. Global evolution and momentum . Scientific Book Society Darmstadt 1996, ISBN 3-534-12307-7

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2001
• Helpless augurs of progress . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 23, 1997; Krupp criticized futurology
• Krupp signed a 2001 memorandum to US President GW Bush
• Krupp on the effects of microelectronics. In: Computerwoche , 1984
• The calm before the storm? In: Berliner Zeitung , July 2, 1997; Krupp signs a criticism of the "Berlin speech" by Federal President Herzog

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmar Krupp in the catalog of the German National Library
• The inventor of the Fraunhofer model turns 75 ( Memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Matthias Kind: Strategic thinker: On the death of Helmar Krupp . In: Universität Karlsruhe (Ed.): UniKATH . tape 2007 , no. 03 , 2007, p. 51 ( kit.edu [PDF; accessed September 30, 2018]).