Jürgen Tippe

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Jürgen Tippe (born July 14, 1935 in Potsdam ; † August 8, 2009 ) was a German mathematician and university rector and president.

Life

Jürgen Tippe attended a primary school in Potsdam until 1945. Due to the school reform in the Soviet occupation zone , he was only able to attend a high school in 1949 . He graduated from high school in Blankenburg (Harz) in 1953. He studied mathematics for a year at the Humboldt University in East Berlin with Heinrich Grell and Hans Reichardt . The family applied for a trip to West Berlin under the Emergency Admission Act . After his high school diploma was recognized, Jürgen Tippe studied at the Free University of Berlin with Alexander Dinghas , Karl Peter Grotemeyer and Helmut Pachale ( functional analysis and measurement theory ). He graduated from Alexander Dinghas in 1960 on fixed point theorems in general topological spaces . He then became an assistant at the Chair of Applied Mathematics at the Free University of Berlin. There he dealt with the complex of questions of the isoperimetric property of the sphere in non-Euclidean geometries . In 1962/63 he did his doctorate under Alexander Dinghas on the subject of the isoperimetric property of the sphere in Riemannian spaces of constant positive curvature .

When the Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin was founded in the Wedding district in 1971, he was rector and later president. During his time at the Technical University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, he campaigned, among other things, for the introduction of practical semesters and cooperation with business and partner universities. In 1989 he was the founding president of the University of Applied Sciences for Technology and Economics in Berlin-Karlshorst . He resigned from office in 1994. From 1992 to 1994 he was also director of the itw - Institute for Education and Training in Berlin-Wedding . He resigned from office because of financial irregularities. From February 2008 Jürgen Tippe was teaching university mathematics on a voluntary basis at the Georg Büchner Oberschule in Berlin-Lichtenrade .

His interests included playing the piano, mountain climbing and playing chess . He actively played chess with the clubs Schwarzer Springer Schmargendorf and later Schwarz-Weiß Lichtenrade . He was diagnosed with cancer in July 2009 and died a few weeks later.

Publications

His doctorate was published in 1962 by the University of California and in 1963 as a summary by the Free University of Berlin. He edited the 4th edition (publication date 1971) of the textbook Methods of Practical Analysis by Friedrich Adolf Willers .

  • Theses on the reform of engineering education . 1974
  • Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin: technology transfer, offers, services… . TFH, Berlin 1987

Web links

  • Obituary on weltexpress.info from August 31, 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the autobiographical résumé of his inaugural dissertation . Printed by the dissertation printing office of the Ernst Reuter Society of Sponsors and Friends of the Free University of Berlin.
  2. ↑ Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
  3. ↑ Christine Richter : Institute crisis homemade . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 15, 1994
personal data
SURNAME Type in, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and university rector and president
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 2009