Klaus Schnädelbach

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Klaus Schnädelbach (born October 2, 1934 in Altenburg ) is a German geodesist and emeritus professor for general geodesy at the Technical University of Munich . He is the author of around 100 specialist articles and the initiator of numerous projects.

He belonged (with Rudolf Sigl and others) to the group of younger scientists for whom the well-known textbook author and later rector of the Munich Technical University, Max Kneissl , was a kind of mentor. Schnädelbach lives in Dachau.

Professional career

Schnädelbach began his surveying studies in 1953 at the TH Karlsruhe and graduated in 1958 as Dipl.-Ing. from. In the following time as a trainee lawyer he took part in the International Glaciological Greenland Expedition ( EGIG ) in 1959 . From 1962 ( major state examination ) to 1971 he was a research assistant , later an academic adviser at the Geodetic Institute of the University of Karlsruhe and received his doctorate in 1966 as a Dr.-Ing. with the theme " Simultaneous location determination through photography of the star orbits ". This work became the basis of many more advanced projects, including a. at the universities and TUs of Hanover , Stuttgart , Munich and Vienna .

His habilitation took place in 1971 with a thesis on mathematical geodesy ( geodetic lines on the reference ellipsoid and projection onto the sphere ). In the same year he moved to Munich as director of the first department of the DGFI .

Here, at the age of 40, he received a call to full professor for general geodesy at the Technical University of Munich in 1974, where he was professor until his retirement in 2000 .

Thomas Wunderlich was appointed as his successor by the Vienna University of Technology, who also gave the laudation on his 70th birthday.

Main research topics

Schnädelbach's broad scientific oeuvre ranges from the automation of measurement and computing technology to special algorithms for the joint processing of terrestrial measurements with those of satellite geodesy to the calibration of industrial robots . This pioneering activity in particular required a lot of dedication and consistency. It is also thanks to him that the Geographic Information Systems department and an instrumental testing laboratory were set up under Wolfgang Maurer.

In summary, Schnädelbach's main areas of work are :

The International Engineering Surveying Courses launched jointly with ETH Zurich and TU Graz , of which those in 1988 and 2000 were held at the TU Munich , also served to further develop engineering surveying in research and teaching .

Activities outside the university

Since 1975 Schnädelbach was a full member of the German Geodetic Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and from 1986 to 1996 its permanent secretary . In recognition of some collaborations, he received the Medal of Honor from the University of Ljubljana .

He was also a member of the Commission for International Earth Surveying of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Board of Trustees of the Deutsches Museum , which awarded him the Oskar von Miller Medal in gold. In recognition of his services to surveying in Bavaria, he received the Soldner Medal from the Bavarian Ministry of Finance in 2003 .

Most important publications by Klaus Schnädelbach

  • Simultaneous location determination through photography of the star orbits. DGK Series C, Volume 99, Munich / Karlsruhe 1966
  • Calculation of the geodetic lines through conformal mapping of the ellipsoid onto the sphere. DGK Series C, Volume 185, Munich 1972
  • Engineering survey 88 ( Ed. With Heinrich Ebner ) in Dümmler Verlag , Bonn 1988
  • Engineering Surveying 2000 (Ed. With Mathäus Schilcher): 13th International Course on Engineering Surveying (440 pages, content). Vol. 33, Surveying at Wittwer Verlag, Stuttgart 2000.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b zfv - Journal of Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management , Volume 139, No. 5/2014, ISSN  1618-8950 , pp. N – 80
personal data
SURNAME Schnädelbach, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geodesist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg