Helmut Günther (physicist)

Helmut Günther (born March 24, 1940 in Bochum ) is a German theoretical physicist who deals with disorder and Lorentz symmetries in lattice structures as well as the axiomatic basis of special relativity .

Life

Günther studied physics at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Under the direction of Hans-Jürgen Treder , he received his doctorate in 1966 at the Institute for Pure Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (On the Nonlinear Continuum Theory of Moving Dislocations ) and acquired at the Central Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam-Babelsberg (1969-1982) in 1972 with the Text on the dynamics of rapid dislocations by Dr. sc. nat. At the Einstein Laboratory for Theoretical Physics he worked from 1982 to 1986 on geometric models and equilibrium configurations of line structures in solids. In 1986 he and his family fled from the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany.

From 1987 to 1989 he worked under the direction of Alfred Seeger at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart and under the direction of Ekkehart Kröner from 1989 to 1990 at the Institute for Theoretical and Applied Physics at the University of Stuttgart, where he published works on Lorentz- Symmetries of solutions to the Sinus Gordon equation in crystals.

From 1990 to 2005 he was professor of mathematics and physics at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences . He has also commented on the philosophy of space and time (in The Special Theory of Relativity 2013) and is active with public lectures on the theory of relativity and related topics, including a. at Urania Berlin and as an academy lecturer at the summer academies of the German National Academic Foundation .

He writes fiction under the pseudonym Rela Ferenz. Since 1967 he has been married to the painter Christina Günther, with whom he has two children.

Fonts (selection)

A) physics

• To the nonlinear continuum theory of moving dislocations. Dissertation. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1967, DNB 456838554 .
• On the dynamics of rapid dislocations. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1973, DNB 740037463 .
• Limit speeds and their paradoxes. (= Teubner texts on physics. Volume 31). Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 1996, ISBN 3-8154-3029-1 .
• Start-up Relativity Theory - A New Approach to Einstein's World. 2nd Edition. BG Teubner, Stuttgart / Leipzig / Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-519-10382-6 .
• Movement in Space and Time - An Introduction to Physics. Edition at Gutenbergplatz, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-937219-54-7 .
• The special theory of relativity - Einstein's world in a new axiomatic. with 13 portraits based on work by Christina Günther, Springer Spektrum, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-00712-6 .
• with Volker Müller: The Special Theory of Relativity - Einstein's World in New Axiomatics , Springer Nature, Singapore 2019, ISBN 978-981-13-7783-9 (e-book), ISBN 978-981-1377-82-2 .
• Elementary Approach to Special Relativity , Springer Nature, Singapore 2020, ISBN 978-981-15-3168-2 (e-book), ISBN 978-981-15-3167-5 .

B) Fiction under the pseudonym Rela Ferenz with illustrations by Christina Günther

• Stories out of nowhere. novum publishing 2012, ISBN 978-3-99007-724-5 .
• The mill by the brook. united pc Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-84-9015-869-2 .
• Death in Tegel. united pc Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-85438-499-1 .
• Sintemalen flea and fly. united pc Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-85438-006-1 .
• All just poems. united pc Verlag 2013 ISBN 978-3-7103-0279-4 .
• Johanna Schellenbaum. united pc Verlag 2014 ISBN 978-3-7103-1353-0 .
• The restricted area. united pc Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-7103-1557-2 .
• Murder in the stone bath. united pc Verlag 2nd edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-7103-1892-4 .
• Death at Schwielowsee. united pc Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-7103-2360-7 .
• The Jewess. united pc Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-7103-2504-5 .
• The deficiencies. united pc Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-7103-3137-4 .
• Tobias Triebel - Twelve cruisers. united pc Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-7103-3213-5 .
• The half sister. united pc Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-7103-3625-6 .

literature

• Helmut Günther: Limit Velocities and their Paradoxes: Lattice · Ether · Relativity . Teubner, 1996, ISBN 3-8154-3029-1 , p. 4 ( short biography of the authors) ( limited preview in Google book search).
• Manfred Strecker: Access to Einstein's world . In: New Westphalian . February 23, 2004, p. 17 ( nw.de - only available for a fee).

Web links

• Start-up Relativity Theory - A New Approach to Einstein's World. fh-bielefeld.de, August 11, 2003.  (with picture)
• Non-fiction books in the DNB catalog. 
• Fiction in the DNB catalog. 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lectures by Helmut Günther. Urania Berlin, accessed January 18, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (Ed.): Annual report . 2018, p. 146 ( studienstiftung.de [PDF; 4.3 MB ]). , Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (Ed.): Annual report . 2012, p. 51 ( studienstiftung.de [PDF; 6.2 MB ]). And 2005 annual report.
3. ↑ Rela Ferenz: Murder in the stone bath . novum publishing, 2011, p. 180 (author biography) ( google.de ).