Helmuth Faulstich

Helmuth Faulstich in Rossendorf, around 1965

Helmuth Faulstich (born November 12, 1914 in Stralsund ; † June 21, 1991 in Dresden ) was a German electrical engineer and electronics technician . He was acting director from 1961, from 1965 to 1970 director of the Central Institute for Nuclear Research (ZfK) Rossendorf .

Studies and PhD

Helmuth Faulstich began studying electrical engineering at the Technical University in Gdansk in 1934 and then worked as a research assistant at the newly founded Ernst Orlich Institute in Gdansk from 1940. This institute was a research institute of the Reich Office for High Frequency Research . Faulstich was appointed head of a research group. The special development tasks included: electromechanical filters, the further development of ground observation devices ( radar ), decimeter measuring technology as well as special problems of the beacon and impulse technology . At the end of 1944 Faulstich obtained his doctorate in engineering.

In the Soviet Union

In 1945, due to the events of the war, the Ernst Orlich Institute was relocated from Gdansk and thus the work from Faulstich to Thuringia . After the dissolution of this institute, Faulstich began his work in 1945 as the laboratory manager of a high-frequency laboratory in the newly founded RABE Institute in Bleicherode . The RABE Institute (rocket construction and development) was set up by the Red Army in mid-1945 . It was relocated to Moscow with its employees in 1946 . As part of the Ossawakim campaign , Faulstich was also forced to leave the former Soviet zone of occupation . Faulstich worked there until 1955 as a German specialist on armaments developments for the Red Army. From 1955 to 1956, the German specialists were relocated to Sukhumi for "quarantine" and were occupied with secondary tasks.

Activities after return

In 1956 Faulstich returned to Germany and from 1957 took over the position of head of the technology department at the Central Institute for Nuclear Research (ZfK) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Rossendorf near Dresden . In this function, he established highly effective working groups for scientific device construction and electronic device construction .

Two-dimensional pulse height analyzer, circa 1964

In Faulstich's area of technology / scientific device construction , fruitful cooperation with industry was promoted. The cooperation with the VEB Archimedes in Glashütte in the development and construction of the analog computer endim 2000 , which enabled the solution of linear and non-linear differential equation systems as well as the modeling of complex electronic networks, control systems and physical processes, should be emphasized . Operational amplifiers and additional components such as a function generator , an electronic clock, a multiplier and a digital voltmeter were developed in the ZfK .

Development work on electronic computing led to remarkable results. A ZRA 1 digital computer from VEB Carl Zeiss Jena installed in the computing station of the ZfK in 1962 was subsequently supplemented by a series of additional devices with the aim of achieving experiment automation through coupling in online operation. In the years 1966 to 1968 the ZRA 2 was created in the ZfK, which only had the command code in common with the predecessor type apart from the name abbreviation. Compared to the ZRA 1, the computing speed could be increased by a factor of 100 and the storage capacity in the second expansion stage (1970–1972) by a factor of 4.

In mid-1961 Faulstich was appointed acting director of the ZfK after Heinz Barwich had been appointed deputy director of the United Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna . Barwich fled to the West in 1964 during the 3rd Geneva Nuclear Conference . Thereupon Faulstich was appointed full director of the central institute in 1965. In the same year he was appointed professor. From this point on, Faulstich gradually withdrew from the field of technology / scientific device construction .

Activities after 1970

In mid-1970, Faulstich was dismissed from his position as independent director by the incumbent academy president. Faulstich then took on the deputy head of a research technology structural unit in an academy institute and also set up a central research technology working group. After the dissolution of this working group, he was responsible for further work in the areas of research technology and coordination until he retired from professional life in 1988. Faulstich was a member of a number of international and national associations and specialist commissions.

Personal

Faulstich was the son of the philologist and grammar school director Prof. Ernst Faulstich (1863-1925). Helmuth Faulstich was married and had a son Klaus (* 1942). As a music lover and director of the central institute who was open to the arts, Faulstich supported the activities of the Rossendorf friends of music, literature and art that began in 1969. These cultural events, also sponsored by his successor as director Günter Flach , continued until the legal end of the ZfK on December 31, 1991 with 220 Rossendorfer Club Evenings (ROK) and 84 exhibitions at the ZfK.

Individual evidence

↑ Günther Schulze, Reinhard Koch: Development of mechanical device construction in the field of technology / scientific device construction in the Central Institute for Nuclear Research Rossendorf 1956–1990 . Research Center Rossendorf, Dresden-Rossendorf 1994. 56 pages.
↑ Hans Langenhagen, Reinhard Koch: Development of the electronic device construction in the field of technology / scientific device construction in the Central Institute for Nuclear Research Rossendorf 1956-1991 . 3. Edition. Research Center Rossendorf, Dresden-Rossendorf 1997. 52 pages.
^ H. Faulstich: The unscheduled and contractual support of the industry , spectrum issue 12/1965, pp. 482-488, information sheet for the employees of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin
↑ G. Höhnel: A contribution to the representation of electrical and mechanical networks with the electronic analog computer , colloquium for electronic analog computer, TH Ilmenau, 10.1964, and radio fernsehen elektronik , 1970, issue 21, 22
^ W. Bergmann, H. Faulstich, M. Kahlenbach and K.-H. King. A new EDVA in the Central Institute for Nuclear Research Rossendorf , ZfK report, May 1969
^ Günther Lotz, Helmuth Faulstich: Research technology: tasks, problems, activities; Lectures on d. Colloquium on the occasion of d. 65th born of Helmuth Faulstich . Akad.-Verl, Berlin 1983, p. VII 196 .
^ Reinhard Koch: Culture, art and nuclear research: Rossendorfer club evenings and exhibitions in the seventies . In: Dresdner Hefte . tape 1/05 , no. 81 , 2005, pp. 46-56 .

personal data
SURNAME	Faulstich, Helmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German electrical engineer and electronics technician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 12, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH	June 21, 1991
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Günther Schulze, Reinhard Koch: Development of mechanical device construction in the field of technology / scientific device construction in the Central Institute for Nuclear Research Rossendorf 1956–1990 . Research Center Rossendorf, Dresden-Rossendorf 1994. 56 pages.

[2] Hans Langenhagen, Reinhard Koch: Development of the electronic device construction in the field of technology / scientific device construction in the Central Institute for Nuclear Research Rossendorf 1956-1991 . 3. Edition. Research Center Rossendorf, Dresden-Rossendorf 1997. 52 pages.

[3] H. Faulstich: The unscheduled and contractual support of the industry , spectrum issue 12/1965, pp. 482-488, information sheet for the employees of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin

[4] G. Höhnel: A contribution to the representation of electrical and mechanical networks with the electronic analog computer , colloquium for electronic analog computer, TH Ilmenau, 10.1964, and radio fernsehen elektronik , 1970, issue 21, 22

[5] W. Bergmann, H. Faulstich, M. Kahlenbach and K.-H. King. A new EDVA in the Central Institute for Nuclear Research Rossendorf , ZfK report, May 1969

[6] Günther Lotz, Helmuth Faulstich: Research technology: tasks, problems, activities; Lectures on d. Colloquium on the occasion of d. 65th born of Helmuth Faulstich . Akad.-Verl, Berlin 1983, p. VII 196 .

[7] Reinhard Koch: Culture, art and nuclear research: Rossendorfer club evenings and exhibitions in the seventies . In: Dresdner Hefte . tape 1/05 , no. 81 , 2005, pp. 46-56 .