Gerd Herziger

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Gerd Herziger (* 1932 ) is a German laser - physicist . He has significantly shaped the image of laser technology in the field of manufacturing technology in the Federal Republic.

Life

Herziger studied at Hans Boersch's 1st Physics Institute at the TH Berlin , where the two doctoral students Herziger and Horst Weber developed their first own gas and solid-state lasers at the TU Berlin in 1961/62 shortly after the first demonstration of a laser ( Theodore Maiman , 1960) up and running and were among the first in Germany (along with Dieter Röß's work group at Siemens ). As a result, he and Weber under Boersch set up a leading laser group in Germany at the time at TH Berlin. He received his doctorate in 1965 ( applications of laser resonators for high-resolution interferometry ) and habilitated in 1968 ( transmission properties of undamped optical resonators ). Since he wanted to go into industrial research, he moved with Weber to the University of Bern in 1969 , where he became a full professor. His successor in the management of the laser group at the TU Berlin was Hans Joachim Eichler . From 1975 to 1985 Herziger was head of the Institute for Applied Physics at the TH Darmstadt . In 1985 he went to the TH Aachen , where he founded the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT) in the same year . Mainly industrial research was carried out there and under Herziger's direction it quickly grew into the largest European laser research center.

Since 1994 he has been on the board of the German Aerospace Center . From 1993 to 1997 he was a member of the IRDAC (Advisory Committee on Industrial Research of the EU) and President of the Research Commission of the CEEP (European Center of Employers and Enterprises).

In 1968 he received the Karl Scheel Prize (with Horst Weber) for measuring the bandwidth of continuous lasers (Weber for pulsed lasers). He received the Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize in 1990 for “fundamental work in the field of laser technology”.

With Weber, he wrote a well-known introductory textbook on lasers in 1972.

Fonts

  • with Horst Weber: The laser - basics and applications. Physik-Verlag, Weinheim 1972.
  • with Rolf Wester: Material processing with lasers. Physics in Our Time, Vol. 22, 2006, Issue 5.
  • as editor: Material processing with laser beams. Hanser 1993.

Remarks

  1. ^ Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize 1990 ( Memento from July 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Helmuth Albrecht : Laser research in Germany 1960-1970. Habilitation, University of Stuttgart 1997
  3. ↑ What was not possible with Boersch - he came from industry (AEG) and saw it as a hindrance to basic research. At the beginning of laser development at the TU Berlin: TSB Report 2010, Laser Technology in Berlin-Brandenburg ( Memento from June 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Press release Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Herziger, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German laser physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1932