Jutta Saatweber

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Jutta Saatweber (* May 21, 1938 in Salzwedel / Altmark as Jutta Hildegard Martha Kohde ) is a German electrical engineer and entrepreneur. She was committed to promoting women and girls in engineering professions and held leading positions in the VDI Working Group Women in Engineering (FIB) for many years .

Life

Jutta Kohde's parents were independent merchants. The father was interned by the Soviet occupation forces in August 1945 and died in the camp. The family lost their business through expropriation. Because of her origins, Jutta Kohde was severely restricted in her choice of profession in the GDR ; in practice, only commercial training was open to her. She did an apprenticeship as an electrician and then trained as an electrician . Because of her good qualification, her employer took her into account when awarding the study place. In the GDR you could not apply directly to study, but had to be nominated. Initially, she worked for a year as an electrical and meter fitter in the Salzwedel and Osterburg energy supply company .

From 1956 she studied electrical engineering at the University of Zittau and then worked at VEB Energieprojektierung in Berlin . In 1961, shortly before the Wall was built , she fled to the Federal Republic. There she worked for the company Calor-Emag (now ABB ) in Ratingen in the construction department and then for the measuring device manufacturer Hartmann & Braun as a sales engineer in the field.

After her marriage there were several moves due to changes in her husband's job. Due to the lack of childcare facilities, Saatweber temporarily interrupted her work after the birth of her first child. Later she worked part-time again.

In 1982, she went with the engineering firm ISC Saatweber Consulting in Bad Homburg independently. She offered training in the product development method Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and accompanied the implementation of the method in the project and development teams of her customers. She developed into one of the leading QFD experts in Germany and was involved in many publications and specialist conferences. From 2003 to 2008 she was a lecturer at the accadis University for International Management in Bad Homburg.

Jutta Saatweber is married and has two children.

Volunteering

For many years, Jutta Saatweber was intensely committed to promoting women and girls in engineering professions. From 1982 she was active in the newly founded VDI network “Women in Engineering” (FIB) and from 1988 in the German Association of Women Engineers (dib). From 1998 to 1993 she headed the Frankfurt working group of the VDI-FIB and in 1990 organized the first all-German meeting of the FIB in Bad Homburg.

Jutta Saatweber played a key role in the joint stand “Frau + Technik”, which was offered to female engineers from four associations (VDI, VDE , DAB , dib) for the first time at the Hanover Fair in 1988 . The aim was to make female engineers more visible in public. Jutta Saatweber was responsible for the “catalog of requirements for the compatibility of work and family”, which was distributed during the fair. In 1989 and 1990 the action was repeated.

After reunification , she headed the VDI-FIB working group “New Federal States” and founded FIB working groups with the engineers in the east. She advised unemployed female engineers in Magdeburg, Dresden, Halle, Leipzig and Greifswald on setting up their own businesses and conducted specially coordinated business start-up seminars for these female engineers.

In 2000 she was the head of the EXPO committee for the organization of the International Forum for Women in Engineering at the first World Female Engineers Day in Hanover.

Awards

  • VDI Medal of Honor
  • 2011: Akao Prize for the "dissemination and scientific development of the QFD method"
  • 2017: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 2019: Honorary membership of the VDI

Fonts

  • Editor of conference reports: Women in the engineering profession, Association of German Engineers: Experience of female engineers from East and West Germany ; Darmstadt FIB, VDI District Association 1990 (48 pages) Frankfurt; without ISBN
  • Deutscher Akademikerinnenbund (Ed.): The laws of nature apply in East and West. Biographies of women in science and technology. Brochure 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030873-4 .
  • Customer orientation through Quality Function Deployment. Systematic development of products and services (3rd) Symposium Düsseldorf, 2011. ISBN 978-3-86329-429-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita Jutta Saatweber  ( 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. on the FRAU + Technik homepage ... »can, want, do«  ( 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. , accessed on May 23, 2017@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.frauundtechnik.de  @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.frauundtechnik.de  
  2. ^ Symposion Publishing GmbH: Dipl.-Ing. Jutta Saatweber (author). Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Chris Schuth: Documentation and photo show. Joint stand of the working group women in science and technology. 1988 - 1989 - 1990 ... and 20 years after that. 2010/2011 PDF , accessed on May 23, 2017
  4. ↑ Akao Prize
  5. ↑ A lifetime in the service of technology . In: VDI news . May 24, 2019, ISSN  0042-1758 , p. 39 .
personal data
SURNAME Seed weaver, Jutta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jutta Hildegard Martha Kohde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzwedel