Joachim Göller

Joachim Albin Göller (born May 29, 1928 in Gera ; † June 22, 2015 in Königs Wusterhausen ) was a German engineer , scientist and university lecturer for information and telecommunications technology .

Life

After training as an electrician and radio mechanic in 1948 and graduating from high school in Gera the following year, Joachim Göller was drafted into the Barracked People's Police (NVA). In 1952 he took up a distance learning course in electrical engineering at the Technical University of Dresden . He worked as a teacher and later as headmaster at the officers 'school in Döbeln and at the officers' college of the land forces "Ernst Thälmann" in Zittau.

In 1965 he was appointed head of the test center for communications technology of the National People's Army in Niederlehme , which was founded in 1957 and which, from 1972 , advanced to become the central agency for communications networks (ZfN) in the GDR. Here he worked as a client for the development, production and investment of the technology of the special network 1 (S1 network GDR) for all state organs and at the same time for military communications technology . Joachim Goller promoted the introduction of modern communication and management technologies to the National People's Army, by the CoCom - high technology - Embargo Western industrialized countries was affected. The collaboration with the Institute for High Frequency Technology and Impulse Technology of Prof. Peter Fey at the Technical University of Karl-Marx-Stadt and the Academy of Sciences of the GDR played a key role .

With the advent of the 16-bit microprocessor era based on Intel and Microsoft , an international trend developed from 1978 to which the GDR had no access due to the high-tech embargo. That is why in 1983 they planned to orientate themselves towards the KP1810BM86 processor (analogous to Intel 8086 ) of the USSR , which was not yet contractually bound. That is why the GDR's in-house development of the U8000 circuit family ( Zilog Z8000 ) was decided.

In 1983 Joachim Göller was a founding member of the state-sponsored UNIX working group . He enforced the inclusion of the P8000 as a hardware basis for UNIX in the GDR state plan and was the NVA client for development and production in the Institute for Control Engineering of the VEB Elektro-Apparate-Werke Berlin-Treptow "Friedrich Ebert" , Berlin. Joachim Göller introduced the UNIX computer step by step for the operational management of special network 1 (S1 network GDR) . This S1 network was used temporarily from 1990 by the German Armed Forces and the Federal Border Police and linked to the existing German Armed Forces telecommunications network.

After retiring in 1990, Joachim Göller continued to work as a lecturer at the Humboldt University in Berlin and as a scientist in the field of telecommunications with special knowledge of computer networks and the ISDN- D channel . He published numerous teaching letters and materials, including for EPV-Verlag 1999 "The ISDN-D-Kanal im Dialog", which was translated into English and Turkish by Narosa Verlag in New Delhi in 2000. In 2003 the title "The GSM-Dm channels in dialogue" appeared.

Joachim Göller received his doctorate in 1976 with the topic “The coding of messages for the purpose of error detection in transmission via real message channels” at the Technical University of Dresden and achieved the rank of colonel in the National People's Army .

Joachim Göller lived in Königs Wusterhausen .

Awards

• “ Friedrich Engels Prize III. Class “1978
• Award " Honored Technician of the People " 1986

Publications (selection)

• The UNIX story, UNIX in the National People's Army , Rudolf Müller Publishing Company, Item IX, No. 11 June 1991. Copy archived on Osmocom.org
• The ISDN D-Channel in Dialogue , incl. CD with Tracetool, 2nd revised edition, EPV-Verlag, Duderstadt 1999, ISBN 3-924544-80-8 .
• ISDNprof-CBT, The ISDN D-Channel transparent full version-I , CD-ROM with trace tool ISDNView, EPV-Verlag, Duderstadt 1999, ISBN 3-924544-87-5 .
• ISDNprof-USB, the ISDN D-channel transparent full version-II with W @ tchUSB measuring head from Onsoft , CD-ROM with trace tool ISDNView, EPV-Verlag, Duderstadt 2000.
• Signalization in GSM-GPRS-EDGE, computer-based training , CD-ROM with Sagem Trace Mobile OT490, EPV Verlag, Duderstadt.
• Signaling in Mobile Radio Communication , incl. CD-ROM, EPV Verlag, Duderstadt, ISBN 3-936318-24-7 .
• ISDN and networks, Novell Netware 3.12 , Vogelsang, R., Göller, J., EPV Verlag, Duderstadt, ISBN 3-924544-57-3 .
• Voice over IP transparent, telephoning over the Internet - experimental lecture and exercises. For Windows 2000 / XP / Vista , CD-ROM, EPV Verlag, Duderstadt, ISBN 3-936318-66-2 .
• The GSM-Dm channels in dialogue , m. CD-ROM, EPV Verlag, Duderstadt 2003, ISBN 3-936318-00-X .
• A short history of computing technology , CD-ROM with PowerPoint presentation (70 slides), EPV Verlag, Duderstadt 2009.
• From the spaceship Enterprise to the biscuit box, How I experienced the development of information technology from 1940 to 2010 , ebook, EPV Verlag, Duderstadt 2010.

Web links

• Goeller's website
• Literature by and about Joachim Göller in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice in the Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung from July 4, 2015 (last accessed on January 5, 2016).
2. ↑ Federal Archives DDR DC20-32117
3. ↑ Ministry of Science a. Technology: Expert opinion with decision proposals for the further development of microprocessor systems from 16 bit processing width from July 22, 1983, archived on Osmocom.org, formerly on Göller's website (PDF, 5.7 MB; last accessed on January 7, 2016).
4. ↑ Ministry of Science a. Technology: Concept for a permanent working group of the Ministry of Science and Technology Technology - Implementation and distribution of the UNIX software system for 16-bit microprocessor technology in the GDR. Draft dated December 30, 1983, archived on Osmocom.org, previously on Goeller's website (PDF, 6.2 MB; last accessed on January 7, 2016).