Hermann Appel

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Hermann Appel (born December 21, 1932 in Lüneburg ; † July 18, 2002 ) headed the automotive department at the TU Berlin from 1972 until his retirement in September 1998 . In 1998 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit for his scientific work in the field of transport .

Life

Appel completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter in Lüneburg and then studied mechanical engineering at the TH Braunschweig. In 1965 he received his doctorate on a topic of structural engineering and was appointed professor at the Technical University of Berlin in 1972 . In 1983 he initiated the founding of the Ingenieurgesellschaft Auto und Verkehr (IAV) with the support of three companies as shareholders, including Volkswagen AG . The aim was to give research and development in the automotive industry new impulses. From 1983 to 1998 Hermann Appel was a member of the management.

Hermann Appel died in Berlin in 2002 at the age of 69 and was buried in the Dahlem forest cemetery.

With the Hermann Appel Prize, IAV honors its founder and former managing director Hermann Appel and continues the link he started between business and science.

Fonts

  • with Klaus-Peter Hilber: Product and production technologies for future vehicles . Technical University of Berlin, 1984.
  • with Klaus-Peter Hilber: Interaction between the design and use of automobiles . Technical University of Berlin, 1985.
  • with Gerald Krabbel and Dirk Vetter: Accident research, accident mechanics and accident reconstruction . Vieweg, Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 3-528-04123-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honor for Professor Dr.-Ing. Hermann Appel. Press office of the TU Berlin, September 23, 1998, accessed on February 11, 2013 .
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 577.
personal data
SURNAME Appel, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German motor vehicle scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 2002