Joachim Auth

Lecture at the Humboldt University in Berlin, 1967

Joachim Auth (born May 22, 1930 in Lieberose ; † March 14, 2011 in Ludwigsfelde ) was a German physicist , chairman of the Physical Society of the GDR and university lecturer , specializing in semiconductor technology and solid state physics .

Life

Joachim Auth was born as the son of a sales representative in Lieberose, where his grandmother Ida-Luise Auth was known as a local poet and his grandfather worked as a city ​​treasurer . In Cottbus , he attended high school and began around 1950 in the Soviet Union , a physics degree , which he at the 1955 Humboldt University Berlin graduated. Auth then worked as a research assistant at the University's II Physics Institute. In 1960 he received his doctorate and his habilitation in 1966 . In 1955, Auth joined the SED . In 1960 he took over the management of the development department for diodes in the television electronics plant in Berlin-Oberschöneweide . From 1964 to 1967 he was scientific director at the semiconductor plant in Frankfurt (Oder) and in 1967 he became professor for experimental physics . After Robert Rompe retired as director of the former Second Physics Institute at Humboldt University in 1968, Joachim Auth took over the management of this research facility and taught semiconductor physics. The research results provided the basis for the development of microelectronics in the GDR. As part of the restructuring of the Humboldt University, Auth became head of the physics section.

In 1965, the GDR government appointed him as a member of the Research Council , as chairman of the National Committee for Physics and a member of the council for higher education and technical schools in the GDR. From 1966 to 1975 Auth was a member of the Semiconductor Commission of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics . From 1969 to 1992 he was a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In 1974 he was appointed Vice Rector for Natural Sciences and Technology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. After the closure of numerous scientific institutions in the GDR, Joachim Auth gave up all his offices in 1990. In the Physical Society, of which he was chairman from 1988 to 1990, he continued to do voluntary work and came out with numerous honors from other scientists, including Gustav Magnus , Robert Rompe, Hans-Jürgen Treder .

Auth's areas of work included solid state physics , semiconductor physics and technology , especially photoelectric phenomena and semiconductor radiation receivers . He published his research results or theoretical considerations in scientific journals and edited volumes. From 1970 to 2003 Auth was a member of the editorial team for the international trade journals in the physica status solidi series .

From 1981 to 1990 Auth was a member of the Berlin city council for the SED . After the turnaround and the closure of the GDR Academy of Sciences, he became a member of the Leibniz Society . In 1992 he retired , last lived in Rangsdorf near Berlin and died in 2011 in Ludwigsfelde .

Honors

• 1974 National Prize of the GDR III. Science and technology class
• 1984 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold

Publications (selection)

- chronological -

• Physics of semiconductors (in German ed. By Joachim Auth. Author: AF Joffé ), trans. from d. Soot. v. E. Gilde, Berlin. Academy publishing house. 1958.
• Problems of solid state electronics in several volumes (co-author: Joachim Auth), VEB Verlag Technik, 1969.
• Photoelectric phenomena. (Together with D. Genzow and KH Herrmann), Braunschweig, Vieweg, 1977, ISBN 3-528-06821-3 .
• Hans-Jürgen Treder and the Humboldt University of Berlin (article)
• Selected physical problems in semiconductor technology. Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1978.
• 30 years of the GDR - 30 years of successful development of physics in the GDR : Lecture at the festival colloquium, Berlin, 1980.
• Advances in semiconductor measurement technology and microelectronics. Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1990, ISBN 3-05-500831-6 .
• The transistor, the cradle of microelectronics (essay)
• Do we master the dialectic? (Spectrum Standpunkt) (Essay)
• On the opening of the German Academy of Sciences in 1946 / The Institute for Solid State Physics : (Lectures), 1996.
• Vjaceslav V. Stepanov , Joachim Auth, Dieter Bebel, Herbert Friedrich: Textbook of differential equations .
• Gustav Magnus in memory ; Lectures at the Leibniz Society, 2002
• The physically feasible or the economically sensible? (Essay)
• Joachim Auth, Ernst Buschmann and Rainer Burghardt: Scientific colloquium for the 75th birthday of Hans-Jürgen Treder (paperback); trafo-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-89626-462-1 .
• Acknowledgment of the Leibnitz partnership on the occasion of Robert Rompe's 100th birthday on www.hu-berlin.de.
• Manfred von Ardenne , Gerhard Musiol and Siegfried Reball (eds.): Effects of Physics ,
  Here subject area III: Semiconductor effects . VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1989; Reprint: Verlag Harri Deutsch, Thun and Frankfurt am Main
• Online library of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences with some of the publications cited above.

literature

• Horst Kant:  Joachim Auth . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Werner Hartkopf: The Berlin Academy of Sciences. Its members and award winners 1700–1990. Akademie Verlag GmbH Berlin, 1992. ISBN 978-3-05-002153-9 .
• Rüdiger vom Bruch , Heinz-Elmar Tenorth (ed.): History of the University of Unter den Linden 1810–2010 , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2010.

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Auth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary of the Leibnitz Society on the death of Joachim Auth on www.hu-berlin.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rosalinde Weigelt: Poems are reminiscent of the old love rose. About a reading of poems by Ida-Luise Auth, which the Friends of Lieberose organized in the FiZ meeting place ... , accessed on July 16, 2012; Lausitzer Rundschau , November 7, 2006.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Obituary.
3. ^ Members of the previous academies. Joachim Auth. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, accessed on February 11, 2015 . 
4. ↑ see obituary of the Leibnitz Sozietät on the death of Joachim Auth on www.hu-berlin.de
5. ↑ Leibniz-Societät, PDF document  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ page 331 ff.