Klaus Pierick

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Klaus Pierick (born February 19, 1928 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German transport scientist. He was rector of the Technical University of Braunschweig from 1974 to 1976.

Life

Klaus Pierick came from the marriage of Heinrich and Martha Pierick. After graduating from the Helmholtz High School in Essen , he worked as a masonry student from 1947 to 1949 and, after passing the skilled worker examination, attended the construction school in Lage / Lippe until 1950. From 1950 to 1955 he studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Hanover . He initially worked as a structural engineer in an engineering office and switched to railroad service in 1956 as a federal rail trainee. After passing the state examination, he worked at the Minden Works Office from 1959. From 1960 to 1963 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Transport, Railway Engineering and Traffic Safety at the TU Braunschweig . 1964 he was in Braunschweig with the dissertationThe dynamic behavior of locomotives developed from keeping a distance to Dr.-Ing. PhD. In 1964 he became assistant director at the Hanover Federal Railway Directorate. In 1965 he worked in the main administration of the Deutsche Bundesbahn and from 1967 as a representative of the Deutsche Bundesbahn in the General Secretariat of the Union internationale des chemins de fer (UIC) in Paris.

In 1970 he was offered a professorship for Transport and Railway Engineering at the TU Braunschweig and as director of the Institute for Transport, Railway Engineering and Traffic Safety. He succeeded Hermann Lagershausen . From 1972 to 1974 he was prorector, from 1974 to 1976 rector of the TU Braunschweig. In 1996 he retired and handed the institute over to Jörn Pachl .

He founded the ipw engineering company in 1971 and was its managing partner until he left in 1996. In 1980 he founded IVV GmbH in order to market the microcomputer-based decentralized interlocking system (MCDS) that he designed to a large extent . In 1996 he sold the interlocking development to ADtranz . In the 1980s, he was also involved in the company GSSE - a company for system technology and software development - operated together with Siemens Verkehrstechnik .

Klaus Pierick is married to Christa geb. Diegmann.

Act

At a time that was marked by the transition from electromechanical to electronic control and security technology, Pierick researched in particular the systematic transfer of security methods from the old technology, including the associated verification procedures.

Klaus Pierick is involved in numerous social projects in the Holy Land and is a member of the German Association of the Holy Land . In 1977 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Maximilien Cardinal de Fürstenberg and invested in Berlin on May 14, 1977 by Franz Hengsbach , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . Pierick is the Order's Grand Officer . For his commitment he was honored by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem with the Golden Palm of Jerusalem .

honors and awards

Fonts

  • The dynamic behavior of locomotives develops from keeping their distance. Dissertation, TU Braunschweig, 1964.
  • with Hans Fricke : traffic safety. Teubner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 978-3-519-05020-9 .
  • with Klaus-Dieter Wiegand : Computer-integrated process control in traffic . Springer, 1995, ISBN 978-3-540-57002-8 .
  • Enclosure on the occasion of Pierick's retirement: Signal + Draht. Issue 4/1996. Eurailpress, Hamburg.

swell

  • Who's Who in Germany 1980 , Volume 1, Page 1295

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Glasers Annalen, Volume 94 , G. Siemen 1970, page 308
  2. ↑ Summer semester 1974 ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), TU Braunschweig, 1974
  3. ↑ Moderne Stellwerke , Theo Lange, lecture, Braunschweig, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Pierick, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German transport scientist, rector of the TU Braunschweig
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen