Klaus-Dieter Wiegand

Klaus-Dieter Wiegand (born March 3, 1945 ; † July 2011 in Braunschweig ) was a German railway engineer and expert .

Life

Wiegand passed his state examination at the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1970 and worked there from 1971 to 1976 as a research assistant at the "Institute for Railway Engineering and Traffic Safety". In 1976 he did his doctorate with Klaus Pierick . After a one-year stay for research purposes at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne , he continued his research at the TU Braunschweig. Wiegand was the managing partner of the engineering company for traffic planning and traffic safety (IVV) from 1980 to 1996. Since 1982 he has also been a recognized expert for railway, signaling and security systems. In addition to Pierick, he was managing partner of the ipw engineering company founded in 1971 (ipw engineering company Prof. Dr.-Ing.Pierick Prof. Dr.-Ing.Wegand). In 1983 he was appointed honorary professor for testing and approval of railway safety systems by the TU Braunschweig . From 1997 until his death in July 2011 he was the sole managing partner of ipw engineering company.

Wiegand was recognized worldwide as an expert for railway safety technology and has testified as such in numerous court proceedings, such as the Transrapid accident .

Publications

• Optimization of regular and on-demand transports in rail-guided long-distance freight transport, taking transport chains into account. (= Dissertation, TU Braunschweig). Inst. For traffic, railways etc. Traffic safety, Braunschweig 1976, ISBN 3-923325-09-6 .
• with Klaus Pierick : Computer-integrated process control in traffic. Springer, 1995, ISBN 978-3-540-57002-8 .

Web links

• Institute for Railway Engineering and Traffic Safety at the TU Braunschweig
• ipw engineering company

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview: ipw expert organization for railway systems, railway operations, signaling and security systems. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: TramNews. hanning-kahl.de, 2002, pp. 10–11 , archived from the original on July 12, 2015 ; Retrieved July 11, 2015 . 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.  
2. ↑ ipw Ingenieurgesellschaft ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on its-nds.de (PDF, p. 76.) 
3. ^ Expert: Safety deficiencies on the Transrapid line. In: Die Welt, August 15, 2008. Retrieved May 20, 2015.