Hermann H. Hahn

Hermann H. Hahn (2009)

Hermann H. Hahn (born August 2, 1940 in Immenstadt ) is a German engineer and emeritus university professor for urban water management .

Life

Hermann H. Hahn was born on August 2, 1940 in Immenstadt. After graduating from high school in Kempten in 1959 , he first studied construction at the Technical University of Munich , graduating in 1963/64 as a Dipl.-Ing. At Harvard University in Cambridge he studied water chemistry , which he completed in 1965 with an MA and finally in 1968 with a doctorate ( Ph.D. ). 1968/69 he was a research associate in research and teaching at Harvard University. In 1969 he accepted a professorship at the University of Karlsruhe at the Institute for Urban Water Management, of which he also became director in 1969. Today he is an emeritus university professor for urban water management. His fields of activity are research and teaching in aquatic environmental protection, technology transfer , consulting for business, administration and politics.

voluntary work

In the University

Hahn is chairman of numerous committees. From 1979 to 1981 he was Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and from 1989 to 1995 Vice Rector of the University of Karlsruhe. He has been the Erasmus officer for this faculty since 1983.

Outside the university

Hahn is a member of commissions of the German Research Foundation , the Federal Ministries BMU , BMBF , was a member of the OECD commissions from 1972 to 1975 , of the World Health Organization from 1973 to 1983 and of the World Meteorological Organization from 1981 to 1983 . In 1985 he was a reviewer for Tianjin (People's Republic of China). He belongs to the environmental forum of the state of Baden-Württemberg and is the deputy chairman of the environmental advisory board of the Protestant regional church of Baden . Hahn has been a board member of ATV (Association for Water Management, Sewage, Waste) since 1986. From 1996 to 2006 he was President of ATV / DWA and from 1998 to 2001 Vice President of the International Association IWA. He is chairman of the board of the Friends of the Protestant Academy in Baden. In 2006 he became secretary of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , Academy of Sciences of the State of Baden-Württemberg, and from 2009 to 2013 its president.

Hahn is married and has two sons.

Awards

• Scholarship for particularly gifted people from the Free State of Bavaria
• Fulbright Scholarship
• Gordon McKay Fellow (Harvard University)
• Honorary Society "Sigma Xi" and "Delta Omega"
• Gold badge of honor of the ATV (1979)
• Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1991)
• Dr.-Ing. Honorary Faculty of Forest, Geosciences and Hydro Sciences (2004)
• Admission to the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (2002)
• Admission to the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) (2004)
• Honorary professor at the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences (2004) and Hunan University / Shandong PR China (2004)
• Honorary Senator of the Budapest Technical University (2004)
• Honorary member of the Austrian water management association, the RAL quality committee Güteschutz Kanalbau, the German association for water management
• Medal of Honor from Messe München
• Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (2009)

Works since 2000 (selection)

Hahn has written more than 230 (80 reviewed) scientific articles, is the author of textbooks, publisher of two book series (formerly Springer-Verlag , now IWA Publishing and Oldenbourg ).

• The importance of urban water management for the regional material balance, in: Material balance in urban drainage . Krebs, Peter (Ed., ISI, Vol. 16, pp. 1-16). Technical University Dresden. 2000
• Challenges to a German water management association in the age of information technology , in: Future of water management - future tasks of the ÖWAV, Austrian water and waste management association , Vienna. 2000
• The water management consequences of joining the EU based on the situation in wastewater disposal . 6th International Summer Academy, St. Marienthal. "Water in the 21st Century - Perspectives, Fields of Action, Strategies", DBU Osnabrück. 2000
• Urban drainage systems - reality and wishful thinking . In: Water Management in the 21st Century, pp. 205–211. Emscher Cooperative, Essen. 2001
• The middle class is often more flexible . In: wwt, awt Wasserwirtschaft Wassertechnik, H. 3, P. 7. 2001
• The pros and cons of agricultural sewage sludge use . In: Responsible sewage sludge recycling, pp. 203–218. TK Verlag Karl J. Thomé-Kozmiensky. 2001
• A gricultural use of sewage sludge - A controversial issue . In: Sewage Sludge Disposal sustainable and / or reliable solutions. Kroiss, H. (Ed.). Wiener Mitteilungen, Wasser, Abwasser, Gewässer, Vol. 171, pp. 11-20. Institute for Water Quality and Waste Management, Vienna University of Technology. 2001
• “What engineers should learn from lawyers” , KA, Issue No. 8/2002.
• “Small and medium- sized businesses are often more flexible” in Wasserwirtschaft Wassertechnik WWT AWT, 3/2002, p. 7.
• Water technology - water technology . In: Water - an essential resource and habitat. Parthier, Benno (ed.). Series of publications Nova Acta Leopoldina, NF, Vol. 85, No. 323, pp. 375-396. German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle (Saale). 2002
• Water Protection in the Area - Challenges of the Water Framework Directive , Dresden Reports 2003, Volume 23, pp. 15–32.
• Challenges for the water supply and disposal in the industrializing countries , contribution to the cooperation forum water / wastewater November 5, 2003, Bavaria Innovativ
• Water supply and wastewater disposal - a technical, economic and moral challenge , VSA symposium on September 5, 2003 in Winterthur “Water; Source of life and economic power "
• What security can and must the supply of drinking water in Germany offer? GWF Wasser Abwasser 145 No. 4, p. 217. 2004
• Precipitation - An Old Story To Revive? 32nd Abwassertechnisches Seminar, Reports from Water Quality and Waste Management Technical University Munich No. 180, pp. 35–58. 2004
• Water consumption in households and agriculture as well as possibilities for water saving . In: Publications of the Environment Academy of the Ministry of the Environment of Baden-Württemberg . 2005
• If your child asks you - for example: Water: A letter to possibly not yet born grandchildren . In Evangelical Aspects 2/2005, pp. 19–25
• 75 years of integral water management in the Wupper catchment area . In Kommunalwirtschaft / special edition 2005, p. 4
• The future organization of water management - Who plans, finances and implements the measures resulting from the Water Framework Directive? In river basin management - 6th workshop on the present and future of water management. DWA Hennef, pp. 1-9. 2005
• Germany's water management - as others see it . In 10 years of SES operation - over 125 years of urban drainage. SES series of publications Volume 3 Stuttgart pp. 8–21. 2005

Web links

• Short biography of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences