Helmut Strehl

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Helmut Strehl (born November 20, 1931 in Wittenberg ; † November 15, 2019 in Aachen ) was a German civil engineer and former rector of the Aachen University of Applied Sciences .

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Strehl grew up in Wittenberg and attended the Melanchthon High School there . However, his family decided to move to Aachen after the Second World War . There he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and then attended the state engineering school in Aachen, one of the five predecessor institutions of the Aachen University of Applied Sciences. His achievements qualified him for a university degree, which he completed in civil engineering at RWTH Aachen University . He then worked as a research associate at the Transport Science Institute there, where he was awarded a Dr.-Ing. PhD .

In 1964, Strehl was given a lectureship at the State Engineering School for Civil Engineering in Aachen, which, together with other institutions, was transferred to the newly founded Aachen-Jülich University of Applied Sciences on August 1, 1971, and he was a member of the founding committee. Finally, on March 1, 1972, Strehl was elected the first rector of the new university. He headed the University of Applied Sciences until 1984 and also chaired the State Rectors 'Conference of the University of Applied Sciences from 1971 to 1975 and was the first university representative to sit in the Senate of the West German Rectors' Conference . His main achievements include the recognition of German diplomas in Europe that he has been promoting since the 1980s and the prevention of the closure of the Jülich site by the Düsseldorf state government.

During his rectorate, Strehl established relationships with China, attended several elite universities there with students and was commissioned by the state government to look around in China for suitable locations for the establishment of a university to be set up with German support. Strehl decided on Ningbo and in 1984 co-founded the Ningbo University of Technology, a technically oriented university based on the model of the FH Aachen. This resulted in the city ​​partnership between Aachen and Ningbo. In addition, Strehl was involved in the establishment of several university partnerships with universities in England, Ireland, France and the USA.

After the German reunification , Strehl moved back to his old homeland and was actively involved in restructuring East German universities according to the Federal Republican model. In this context, he was a member of the founding commission of the new Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Köthen in the early 1990s . He was elected founding dean in 1991 and worked there until his retirement in 1997. In doing so, he made a special contribution to setting up the third location of the university in Dessau-Roßlau after Köthen and Bernburg , including the design department in 1992 in Dessau to his former successor in the management of the FH Aachen, Hildegard Reitz , and her successor René Flosdorff appointed to the founding committee of the electrical engineering department in Köthen.

For his diverse services, Strehl was made an Honorary Senator of the Aachen University of Applied Sciences and the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences and an Honorary Life Fellow of Coventry University .

Fonts (selection)

  • Transshipment in general cargo systems: evaluation of technical loading investigations for the structural design , VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1963
  • Determination of favorable floor plans for general cargo reloading systems based on an analysis of the volume of goods and the reloading processes , dissertation, Aachen 1963
  • Aachen University of Applied Sciences: Development of a young university , Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Dept. Jülich 1976
  • Possible application and economic limits for the use of skip loaders and containers in earthworks , Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1977, ISBN 978-3-531-02643-5

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mourning for our founding rector , press release on Herzog, Kultur & Stadtmagazin from November 18, 2019
  2. ↑ State Rectors' Conference of the Universities of Applied Sciences
  3. ↑ City partnership Aachen-Ningbo , on the website of the city of Aachen
personal data
SURNAME Strehl, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and former rector of the Aachen University of Applied Sciences
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH 15th November 2019
Place of death Aachen