Kurt Drescher

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Kurt Walter Drescher (born December 22, 1930 in Wittgendorf / Lower Silesia - today in Poland) is a German physicist , electrical engineer and university professor. He played a major role in the development of microelectronics in the GDR from 1961 onwards and in saving the Saxon microelectronics industry and its remarkable reintegration into the international structure after the fall of the Wall in 1989 .

life and work

After graduating from high school in 1950 in Stollberg / Erzgeb. Drescher was employed as a surveyor in uranium mining for the German-Soviet joint-stock company Wismut until he began studying physics in 1951 at the TH Dresden . In 1956 he completed his physics studies with a diploma. In the same year he accepted an assistant position at the Institute for Electrochemistry and Physical Chemistry of the TH Dresden under Kurt Schwabe .

After his doctorate as Dr. rer. nat. In 1962 Drescher became head of department M: Physical measurement technology - BMSR technology in the work center for molecular electronics in Dresden (AMD), headed by Werner Hartmann . Since 1966 he worked as a part-time lecturer for physical electronics and from 1969 as honorary professor for technology of electronic components at the TH Karl-Marx-Stadt .

Drescher finally left AMD in 1973 and accepted a position as a full professor for component technology at the TH Karl-Marx-Stadt. There he founded the technical center for microelectronics in 1979, which he built and managed until 1981.

After his doctorate as Dr. sc. techn. (Converted to Dr.-Ing.habil. In 1991) Drescher was appointed full professor for technology of electronic components in the electronics technology and precision engineering section at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the TU Dresden . From 1992 until his retirement in 1998 he was professor for semiconductor technology and director of the institute for semiconductor and microsystem technology. After German reunification, Drescher was strongly committed to maintaining and expanding microelectronics research and industry in Saxony, including in the industry association Silicon Saxony , of which he was a founding member and first board member.

Drescher supervised around 80 dissertations. He is involved in 39 German patent applications and around 80 foreign patent applications.

Awards

• Banner of the work of the GDR in May 1969 for the development of diffusion systems and their transfer to the production of the GDR company VEB Elektromat Dresden
• National Prize of the GDR 1st class for science and technology in October 1969 for the development of a photo repeater and a wafer prober and their transfer to the production of VEB Carl Zeiss Jena (photo repeater) and VEB Elektromat Dresden (wafer prober)
• Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony in 2002 for his contributions to the development of the microelectronic region of Saxony

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• Dorit Petschel (Ed.): 175 Years of TU Dresden: The Professors of TU Dresden, 1828-2003 . tape 3 . Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , pp. 171 ( limited preview in the Google Book Search - the “Kurt Drescher” presented here is not the author of the publications named in this associated publication).
• Ekkehard Meusel: A pioneer of Dresden microelectronics turns 70: Prof. Kurt Drescher is regarded as the best expert on semiconductor technology in the GDR . In: Dresdner Latest News . December 20, 2000, p. 8 .
• Silicon Saxony e. V. (Ed.): Silicon Saxony - the story . Verlag edition JS dresden, 2006, ISBN 3-9808680-2-8 , p. 21, 23, 24, 26, 35, 37, 40, 43, 65, 66, 213, 214, 215, 236 .

Web links

• Drescher, Kurt ( Memento from March 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Person Wiki of the SLUB Dresden

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kurt Drescher: Development of the signal detection apparatus and the devices for generating the auxiliary magnetic fields for a high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectrograph . 1962, DNB  481124160 (Dresden, Univ., Diss., 1962).
2. ↑ Katharina Thehos: 20 years of research and teaching around the smallest of the small. June 27, 2011, accessed January 12, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Kurt Drescher: Positioning and self-positioning when structuring semiconductor substrates . 1981, DNB  213081962 (Karl-Marx-Stadt, Techn. Univ., Fac. For Electrical Engineering, Diss. B, 1981).
4. ^ Steffen Strehle: History of the Institute for Semiconductor and Microsystem Technology. December 18, 2009, accessed January 20, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Kurt Drescher. ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2016 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. In: Saxon Order of Merit. sachsen.de, accessed on January 14, 2014.