Horst Prem

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Horst W. Prem (born on November 25, 1940 in Nuremberg ; died on July 23, 2019 ) was a German aircraft designer, Unitarian and vice-president of the umbrella association of free ideological communities as well as an author and environmentalist .

Education and professional activity

Horst Prem studied aircraft construction and lightweight construction at the Technical University of Braunschweig with a degree in engineering . He worked in management positions at Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm GmbH and DASA AG . There he was most recently head of the technology department.

Horst Prem gained his first international recognition through his significant contribution to the German-American solar probes Helios 1 and 2 . He was responsible for the critical subsystems 'structure' and 'thermal balance' as well as for the interface 'satellite / rocket' of the American combination Titan - Centaur TE-364/4, which took off successfully for the first time after a miss in this combination with Helios. The earth's orbital speed of around 30 km / s had to be reduced by half in order to reduce the distance between the satellite and the sun by a factor of 4. Prem was able to prove that crystalline solar cells degrade insignificantly even at intensities of 11 E 0 ( solar constants ). Nothing stood in the way of the terrestrial application of photovoltaics . In addition, Prem made fundamental contributions to the use of fiber composite materials in aircraft primary structures, in electrical optics and in sensor technology.

He was co-editor of the books Luftfahrtforschung in Deutschland at Verlag Bernard & Graefe (2001) and Aeronautical Research in Germany - from Lilienthal until Today at Springer-Verlag (2004).

Unitarians

From 1977 to 1991 Horst Prem was President of the German Unitarian Religious Community , and until 2006 a member of the federal board. From 1993 he was head of the Bavarian unitarian community. From 1999 to 2012 he was vice-president of the umbrella association of free ideological communities (DFW) and co-editor of the DFW series of publications. 2003–2016 Horst Prem was chairman of the youth and family education organization Klingberg e. V., which operates an educational facility in Klingberg near Scharbeutz. He was co-editor of the DFW series and editor in charge of the Klingberger series.

Commitment to environmental protection

As President of the German Unitarian Religious Community (1985) and even afterwards, Horst Prem played a leading role in the submissions on environmental protection - amendments to the Basic Law regarding the state objectives of nature conservation , as they were finally taken into account in 1994 in Article 20a of the Basic Law .

Due to his scientific and organizational work on the development and dissemination of solar energy , Horst Prem became a founding member of the Solarinitiative München Land e. V. (SIMLA e.V.) and in 2001 co-founder of Solarkraftwerke München Land GmbH , which he was managing director from 2001 to 2008. In 2005 he received an award from the district of Munich for special services in environmental protection.

Horst Prem was married and had three children.

Fonts

  • Environmental protection as a fundamental right and state objective. In: Unitarian Hefte , Issue 3: Religion and Democracy , German Unitarian Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-922483-33-X .
  • Basic values ​​in the democratic state. In: Unitarian Hefte , Issue 3: Religion and Democracy , German Unitarian Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-922483-33-X .

editor

  • Ernst H. Hirschel, Horst Prem, Gero Madelung (Eds.): Aeronautical Research in Germany. From Lilienthal until Today. Springer Verlag, Berlin 2004.
  • Ernst H. Hirschel, Horst Prem, Gero Madelung (eds.): Aviation research in Germany. Bernard & Graefe Verlag (June 2001).
  • Volker Mueller, Horst Prem (Hrsg.): Politics for a social consensus or the end of German democracy? Booklet 21 of the series for free-spirited culture , Angelika Lenz-Verlag, Berlin / Hanover 2005, ISBN 3-933037-53-0 .
  • Volker Mueller, Horst Prem (ed.): Europe's contribution to the future of the UN. Issue 20 of the series for free-spirited culture , Angelika Lenz-Verlag, Berlin / Hanover 2004, ISBN 3-933037-46-8 .
  • Volker Mueller, Horst Prem (ed.): For a Europe of the citizens! Issue 18 of the series for free-spirited culture , Angelika Lenz-Verlag, Berlin / Hanover 2003, ISBN 3-933037-37-9 .
  • Volker Mueller, Horst Prem (ed.): Terror - are we helpless? Social human rights put to the test. Issue 17 of the series for free-spirited culture , Angelika Lenz-Verlag, Berlin / Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-933037-35-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://lccn.loc.gov/n2003009038
  2. ↑ On the death of Horst Prem. Retrieved July 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ See Herbert Porsche (ed.): 10 years of Helios. DFVLR, Oberpfaffenhofen 1984, IDSN 3-88135-156-6.
  4. ^ Committees of the German Unitarians ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Umbrella Association of Free Weltanschauungsgemeinschaften e. V.
  6. ↑ Series for Free Spiritual Culture
  7. ↑ Horst Prem (Ed.): Klingberger Reihe , http://www.bildung-klingberg.de
personal data
SURNAME Prem, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prem, Horst W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aircraft designer, author and environmentalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH 23rd July 2019