Helmut Zürneck

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Helmut Zürneck (born April 14, 1936 ; † May 13, 2014 ) was a German engineer and professor of electrical engineering specializing in electrical safety .

Life

Zürneck studied and did his doctorate at the Technical University of Darmstadt . In 1972 he was appointed professor there. Until his retirement in 2001, he represented the fundamentals of electrical engineering , power converter technology and drive control in the electrical power engineering department .

Act

He is the author and co-author of numerous books and publications. In addition to his specialist fields of power converter technology and drive control , he also dealt with topics such as causes and protective measures against electrical accidents as well as an introduction to and basics of electrical engineering .

The area of electrical safety was part of Zürneck's special expertise . It is particularly outstanding that Zürneck and Gerhard Hosemann founded the VDE specialist committee "Accident Research" in 1973, which Hosemann headed from 1973 to 1986, followed by Zürneck from 1987 to 1993. This VDE committee maintained the interdisciplinary exchange of experience the fields of electropathology and electrical accidents. The focus was on the questions after

  • the limit values ​​of harmful body currents,
  • the harmfulness of strong electrical, magnetic and electromagnetic fields,
  • accidents with electrical medical devices and facilities,
  • the informative value of statistical surveys on electrical accidents,
  • the boundary conditions under which electrical accidents occur,
  • the expert investigation of electrical accidents.

In order to meet the increasing importance of risk and safety assessments, the committee was renamed "Safety and Accident Research" in 1994 by Siegfried Altmann , head of the committee from 1994 to 2002.

Zürneck was also involved in higher education political bodies such as the convention and budget committee. From 1977 to 1979 he was Vice President of the TU Darmstadt.

Fonts (selection)

  • A speed-regulated, voltage-controlled converter asynchronous motor - dynamics, control and regulation. Dissertation, TH Darmstadt, Faculty of Electrical Engineering 1965.
  • Introduction to electrical engineering. Vieweg-Verlag, Braunschweig; Academic Publishing Company, Frankfurt / M. 1970 (with Robert Jötten).
  • Electrical accidents in bathtubs. Wirtschaftsverlag NW, Verlag für Neue Werbung GmbH, Bremerhaven 1981, ISBN 3-88314-146-1 (with Detlev Hackstein).
  • Causes of fatal electrical accidents with low voltage - fatal accidents due to electricity in the Federal Republic of Germany. 3. Edition. Wirtschaftsverlag NW, Verlag für Neue Wissenschaft, Bremerhaven 1990, ISBN 3-89429-035-8 .
  • Safe electricity application. Results of the work of the VDE Committee on Safety and Accident Research 1973 - 2008. VDE Committee on Safety and Accident Research (SUF), Frankfurt / M. 2008 (with Gerhard Hosemann ).
  • Electrical accidents in Germany - accidents caused by electricity at work and in private life. Ed .: Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Dortmund. Wirtschaftsverlag NW, Verlag für Neue Wissenschaft, Bremerhaven 2002, ISBN 3-89701-798-9 (with S. Altmann ; J. Jüling; D. Kieback).

literature

  • Siegfried Altmann : An introduction to the quantitative assessment of the electrical safety of electrical engineering systems: Univ.Prof. Dr.-Ing. G. Hosemann , Chair for Electrical Power Supply at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg on his 70th birthday. Publishing house Dr. Heide & Partner, Berlin 1992, 40 pages.
  • Werner Kriesel , Hans Rohr, Andreas Koch: History and future of measurement and automation technology. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-18-150047-X .
  • Werner Kriesel: Future models for computer science, automation and communication. In: Fuchs-Kittowski, Frank; Kriesel, Werner (ed.): Computer science and society. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski . Frankfurt a. M., Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Vienna: Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, PL Academic Research 2016, ISBN 978-3-631-66719-4 (print), E- ISBN 978-3-653 -06277-9 (e-book).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c obituaries . In: Darmstädter Echo . May 21, 2014, p. 28 .
  2. ↑ University and State Library Darmstadt. Result list: literature by Helmut Zürneck. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 26, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / avanti.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de  
personal data
SURNAME Zürneck, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and professor of electrical engineering
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1936
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 2014