Horst Strobel

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Horst Strobel at a computer science conference at the Humboldt University of Berlin (2010)

Horst Strobel (born July 30, 1936 in Woltersdorf ) is a German engineer and professor of traffic automation. He is one of the pioneers in systems analysis . In 1989/91 he was vice-rector and rector of the University of Transport “Friedrich List” Dresden .

Life and education

Horst Strobel was born in Woltersdorf near Magdeburg in 1936 as the son of a working-class family. From 1942 to 1954 he first attended elementary school in Woltersdorf and then a high school in Magdeburg. After graduating from high school in 1954, he did a one-year preliminary internship at the signal and security technology plant in Berlin-Treptow (WSSB). This was a prerequisite for starting a degree in electrical engineering at the Dresden University of Technology in 1955 . Here he decided on the control engineering specialization newly established by Heinrich Kindler . He wrote his diploma thesis at the Dresden “Institute for Regulation and Control Technology” of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW), which was also headed by Kindler. The degree was completed in 1961 with the academic degree of Diplom-Ingenieur (Dipl.-Ing.) For control engineering .

Strobel was one of the early generation of students in control engineering in Dresden, from which the later automation professors Heinz Töpfer (Magdeburg; Dresden), Wolfgang Weller (Berlin), Herbert Ehrlich (Magdeburg; Leipzig) and Hans-Joachim Zander (Dresden) emerged.

Because of his outstanding achievements, Heinrich Kindler offered him a position at his Academy Institute for Regulation and Control Technology in Dresden. Horst Strobel started his career in 1961 as a research assistant, assistant and senior assistant at DAW in Dresden. Here he devoted himself to the development of the then new research area “Experimental Systems Analysis and System Identification”. During this time he also developed a professionally associated dissertation , which he in 1966 at the Technical University Dresden for Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) Doctorate ( "summa cum laude"). In the years that followed, this subject was developed in connection with system modeling at other university institutions, e. B. in Magdeburg by Christian Döschner and in Ilmenau by Jürgen Wernstedt .

University professors, researchers and developers

In 1967 Strobel was appointed as a university lecturer for control engineering ( equivalent to C3 professor ) at the University of Transport (HfV) in Dresden . During this activity he also worked on his habilitation thesis . In 1973 he was awarded a doctorate in science (Doctor scientiae technicarum, Dr. sc. Techn.); 1991 Conversion of the “Dr. sc. techn. "in" Dr.-Ing. habil. ". At the same time, he has also acquired his teaching qualification ( facultas docendi ) for the field of control engineering.

In 1974 Horst Strobel was appointed full professor for control engineering and process control at the University of Transport (HfV) in Dresden. From 1974 to 1982 he was also a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg Palace near Vienna , the only East-West institute outside the UN that was initiated by the USA and the Soviet Union during the Founded in 1972 as a bridge between scientists during the Cold War and headed by Professor Howard Raiffa (Harvard) at the time. Here Strobel was able to set up his own research project and to carry out several international conferences (including in Vienna 1977) as well as study trips to the USA with a lecture at the IFAC World Congress in Boston 1975 and to Japan . Scientists from many countries around the world changed frequently at IIASA itself, so that Strobel has grown into an international network of contacts, including Manfred Peschel ( AdW Berlin ), Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski ( HUB Berlin ) and his Dresden colleague Hans-Joachim from the GDR Zander ( AdW / ZKI ) belonged.

After this activity, Strobel was appointed director of the newly founded Berlin Center for Process Automation (ZPA) at the Central Transport Research Institute (ZFIV) for the period from 1982 to 1986. Here he devoted himself to the practical transfer of microcomputer-controlled system solutions, for which he had previously laid the essential foundations at the HfV in Dresden.

At the HfV, Strobel designed and implemented the technical center for process control and simulation technology from 1975 to 1980 . As a result, the work of the Strobel research team increasingly focused on microcomputer controls for specific applications in the transport sector. A second stage of expansion of this facility, called the pilot plant for automation technology , was completed in 1982. Thus, the simulation laboratory could be converted into a traffic engineering microcomputer laboratory . From the research results obtained, innovative traffic service and traffic engineering devices and systems were developed (sometimes for the first time worldwide) and used in practice:

MDA ticket machine, designed by H. Strobel around 1980; Place of issue: Rechenwerk Computer & Technology Museum Halle (Saale) (2016)
“Robotron” cash card reader (center) and small keyboard for PIN; Place of exhibition: Electrotechnical collection at the Markkleeberg substation ( VDE education and meeting place), 2011
Geldkarte from 1988, money and credit institutions of the GDR (2011)
  • Ticket machines as a world first: 400 MDA machines (with microcomputer control and interactive screen dialogue) at the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) in Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden and another 150 train stations (for approx. 5,000 types of tickets per machine)
  • On-board computer for energy-optimized operation of the Berlin S-Bahn and the S-Bahn in Halle (Saale)
  • Microcomputer control of aircraft emergency interception systems for aircraft of the type MiG-21 , MiG-23 , MiG-29 , Phantom F-4
  • inductive track-guided electric tugs
  • Traffic-dependent control of traffic lights (networked traffic lights)
  • Software development for the ATMs with cash card readers of the former state bank.

In 1989 Strobel was appointed prorector for research at the HfV. After the resignation of Rector Peter Gräbner in January 1990, Strobel became the new Rector of the University of Transport “Friedrich List” in Dresden on February 1st . He held this office for a year until his successor Manfred Zschweigert was appointed .

In autumn 1992 the University of Transport was dissolved and part of the university was taken over as the new Faculty of Transport Science "Friedrich List" in the Technical University of Dresden. During this transition, Strobel returned to his teaching and research activities at his own request with a professorship in "Traffic Control Systems and Process Automation" at the Institute for Traffic Information Systems at TU Dresden . He held this position as well as the function of the institute director until his retirement.

In addition, Strobel took over the leadership of a research group "Traffic control and traffic information systems" in the Dresden area of ​​the Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing Karlsruhe . This created the essential prerequisites for the establishment of an independent Fraunhofer Institute for Transport and Infrastructure Systems (FhGIVI) . From 1992 to 2005 Strobel actively supported the establishment and development of this Dresden Fraunhofer Institute.

Horst Strobel achieved a scientific and organizational success at the end of his professional activity by applying for the BMBF lead project "Intermobil Region Dresden: Intermodal Mobility Assurance in Central Metropolitan Areas by Integrating Innovative Telematics, Rail and Control Technologies" in a Germany-wide competition with 155 applicants. At the request of the university management, Strobel was available as a scientific project manager for the entire duration of the project from 1999 to 2004.

Strobel was so active until 2005, so until his 69th year of life, at the TU Dresden, while being in 2003 on reaching the age limit emeritus was. Renowned industrial experts, scientists and several professors emerged from Strobel's academic environment : Günther Otto (Rector of HTW Dresden from 1996 to 2003), Michael Amos (HTW Dresden) and others

Strobel lives in Radebeul near Dresden.

Memberships and honors (selection)

Publications (selection)

The research results of Strobel and his team were also reflected in fundamental and internationally distributed book publications as well as in over 100 publications in specialist journals and proceedings of international conferences. He is involved in several patents.

  • Helge-Björn Kuntze, Horst Strobel: Status and development trends in the automation of warehousing processes. Part 1. Overview report, Part 2. Specialized bibliography. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1975, ISBN 978-3-18-400319-7 .
  • Contribution to the experimental system analysis with determined test signals. Dissertation, TU Dresden, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Dresden 1966.
  • Calculation tables for determining a fractional, rational transfer function by evaluating measured frequency responses. Instructions for practical use. German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (Research Foundation), Institute for Regulation and Control Engineering, Dresden 1967.
  • System analysis with determined test signals. Theory and application of the method for determining characteristic values. Verlag Technik, Berlin 1968.
  • System identification - the basics of a general theory and its application for determining parameters in control engineering. Habilitation (Dissertation B), Technical University Dresden 1973.
  • Experimental systems analysis. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975.
  • Computer Controlled Urban Transportation. A survey of concepts, methods and international experiences. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester; New York; Brisbane; Toronto; Singapore 1982.
  • Horst Strobel (Head): Workshop "Real-time information & mobile ticketing through portable traffic telematics: Experience and innovation potential." 17./18. June 2003 in Dresden, organizer: German Transport Science Society e. V., Berlin. In cooperation with the BMBF lead project Intermobil Region Dresden . DVWG, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-933392-65-7 .

literature

  • Werner Gross, Gerhard Rehbein: History of the University of Transport "Friedrich List" Dresden. Transpress Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-344-00324-0 .
  • Werner Kriesel ; Hans Rohr; Andreas Koch: History and future of measurement and automation technology. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-18-150047-X .
  • Karl Heinz Fasol , Rudolf Lauber; Franz Mesch, Heinrich Rake , Manfred Thoma , Heinz Töpfer : Great Names and the Early Days of Control in Germany. In: Automation technology, Munich. Vol. 54, No. 9, 2006, pp. 462-472.
  • 15 years at the “Friedrich List” Faculty of Transport Sciences. Festschrift TU Dresden, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86780-021-1 .
  • Kurt J. Reinschke: Memory of Heinrich Kindler , first professor for control engineering at the TH Dresden. In: Automation technology, Munich. Vol. 58, H. 6, 2010, pp. 345-347.
  • Wolfgang Weller : Automation technology through the ages - development history of a fascinating subject. Publisher epubli GmbH Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8442-5487-7 .
  • Werner Kriesel : Prof. Hans-Joachim Zander on his 80th birthday. In: Automation technology, Munich. Vol. 61, H. 10, 2013, pp. 722-724.
  • Jürgen Krimmling: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. hc Horst Strobel on his 80th birthday. In: Automation technology, Munich. Vol. 64, H. 7, 2016, pp. 581-582.
  • Peter Neumann (Hrsg.): Magdeburg's automation technology in transition - from industrial to research location. Authors: Christian Diedrich , Rolf Höltge, Ulrich Jumar , Achim Kienle, Reinhold Krampitz, Günter Müller, Peter Neumann, Konrad Pusch, Helga Rokosch, Barbara Schmidt, Ulrich Schmucker, Gerhard Unger, Günter Wolf. Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg ; Institute for Automation and Communication Magdeburg (ifak), Magdeburg 2018, production: Grafisches Centrum Cuno GmbH & Co. KG, Calbe (Saale), ISBN 978-3-944722-75-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horst Strobel - Stadtwiki Dresden stadtwikidd.de
  2. ↑ Horst Strobel, Peter Horn: First use of microcomputers in traffic service and technical processes - public and broad-based development of innovation potentials in the years 1977 to 1984. In: Wolfgang Coy , Peter Schirmbacher (ed.): Informatik in der DDR - Tagung Berlin 2010. Proceedings of the 4th symposium "Computer Science in the GDR" on September 16 and 17, 2010 in Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86004-253-3 , pp. 171–181.
  3. ↑ First comprehensive presentation of this subject in German-language literature with more than 400 pages.
  4. ↑ First comprehensive presentation in the entire English-speaking area with around 500 pages.
personal data
SURNAME Strobel, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Woltersdorf