Karl Wißpeintner

Karl Wißpeintner (* 1946 in Ortenburg ) is a German engineer , entrepreneur and local politician .

Karl Wißpeintner

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Karl Wißpeintner was born as the son of a cooper. After secondary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a radio and television technician in Passau and opened his own repair shop. With the support of Professor Hanns-Georg Hofhansel , he was able to start studying electrical engineering at the Regensburg University of Applied Sciences, despite a lack of previous training in mathematics and physics . After graduating as a graduate engineer, he moved to the Technical University of Berlin . He met his wife and started a family.

In 1976 he joined Franz Frischen's company in Ortenburg and in 1977 became managing director of Micro-Epsilon Messtechnik GmbH & Co. KG . He built the company from a small business with three men in a 16 square meter basement to a global group of companies with locations in Ortenburg, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, France, Great Britain, the United States, India, China and Japan. The group of companies occupies a global market position in the sensor technology sector and in 2012 achieved a turnover of 100 million euros with around 600 employees, 47 million euros go to the main company alone. Over the past three decades, Micro-Epsilon has had average annual growth of between 15 and 16%.

At the end of 2011, Wißpeintner relinquished the management and then headed Micro-Epsilon Beteiligungs-GmbH from 2012 to 2018 - an association of now 32 medium-sized companies that are active in sensor technology.

Karl Wißpeintner was also market councilor in Ortenburg for 24 years, including six years as third mayor, and was involved as chairman of the university council at Deggendorf University from 1999 to 2015 . Furthermore, Wißpeintner is on the board of trustees of the Passau Region Economic Forum .

Honors

He is the ambassador of Lower Bavaria and was made an honorary member of the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Passau on February 9, 2007 .

On July 2, 2008, Wißpeintner received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon from Minister of State Erwin Huber on behalf of the Federal President . For his commitment, he has received the Technology Prize of the East Bavarian Technology Transfer Institute in Regensburg and the Best Practice Award.

In 2011 the Deggendorf University of Technology awarded Wißpeintner an honorary senator.

On October 22nd, 2016, he was made an honorary citizen of the municipality of Ortenburg.

On July 13, 2017, he received the Bavarian Order of Merit .

Since October 23, 2017, he has been one of the eight ring of honor winners in the Passau district to date

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alumni get-together from HS.R as a guest at Micro-Epsilon Messtechnik at the University of Regensburg
2. ↑ Karl Wisspeintner was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon at the Strategic Partnership Sensor Technology
3. ↑ Austromatisierung 3/2012: The sensor visionary (p. 14 f). (PDF; 293 kB) Accessed April 19, 2013 . 
4. ^ Passauer Neue Presse: The PNP entrepreneur portrait today: Karl Wisspeintner, head of Micro Epsilon. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; Retrieved April 19, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ micro-epsilon.de: Management. Retrieved April 23, 2013 . 
6. ↑ hdu-deggendorf.de. Retrieved April 19, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Helmut Rücker: For the Bavarian Order of Merit once to Riga and back. In: Passauer Neue Presse VA of July 14, 2017 (p. 19)
8. ↑ wifo-passau.de Executive / Board of Trustees. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 16, 2013 ; Retrieved April 23, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ^ Niederbayern.de: The regional marketing presents the ambassadors of Lower Bavaria. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 24, 2013 ; Retrieved April 23, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ uni-passau.de: Award of honorary membership to Mr. Dipl.-Ing. Karl Wisspeintner. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 19, 2013 .  ( 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.    
11. ^ Walter Schöttl: Federal Cross of Merit for Karl Wißpeintner . In: Passauer Neue Presse VA of July 3, 2008 (p. 24)
12. ↑ Stefanie Lade: With an eye on detail to success . In: Passauer Neue Presse from August 14, 2008 (p. 5)
13. ^ University of Passau. Uni Magazin 2/2007, p. 5. (PDF; 2.6 MB) Retrieved on April 19, 2013 . 
14. ↑ Karl Wißpeintner is now an honorary citizen. Retrieved January 18, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Ralf Empl: Bavarian Order of Merit: Awarded 2017. Accessed on July 13, 2017 . 
16. ↑ Helmut Rücker: Once to Riga and back. Retrieved July 23, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Karl Wißpeintner - an entrepreneurial personality. Retrieved July 23, 2009 .