Lothar Teschke

Lothar Teschke during his greeting to the investiture by Rector Jörg Kirbs (left) on April 12, 2012

Lothar Teschke (born July 24, 1936 in Riesenburg ) is a German mathematician . He is particularly dedicated to training engineers in the field of applied mathematics . From 1992 to 1994 he was the founding rector of the Merseburg University of Applied Sciences in Saxony-Anhalt .

Life

Lothar Teschke was born in Riesenburg in West Prussia . His family ended up in the Altmark in 1945 after the expulsion , where he passed his Abitur in 1953 in Oebisfelde .

His studies in mathematics and physics teaching took him from 1954 to 1958 at the Pädagogische Hochschule (PH) in Potsdam .

Teschke was married to Barbara Knothe (died 2018). Today he lives in Reinbek.

Stations as a teacher and mathematician

After working as a teacher from 1958 to 1961 at the secondary school in Zeitz , he switched from 1961 to 1981 as a research assistant to the University of Education (PH) in Halle / Saale, where he devoted himself to teaching mathematics for teachers. There he took up another degree in mathematics, which he completed in 1966 at the University of Halle / Saale as a graduate mathematician .

In 1973 he obtained his doctorate as Dr. rer. nat. also at the University of Halle / Saale with Gerhard Pazderski .

This was followed by his habilitation to become a Dr. rer. nat. habil. at the TH Ilmenau , in the same year he also acquired the Facultas Docendi (teaching qualification).

In 1981 Teschke applied to leave the Federal Republic of Germany, survived the measures taken by the GDR security organs and moved to Hamburg , where he initially taught at a grammar school. In 1989 he was appointed professor at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW). For many years he was a member of the board of the Mathematical Society in Hamburg .

Founding rector in Merseburg

After German reunification on October 3, 1990, Teschke was an advisor to the state government of Saxony-Anhalt and was involved in shaping the new university structures there. In 1992 Teschke was appointed the founding rector of the Merseburg University of Applied Sciences .

At the beginning of December 1990, the state government decided to liquidate the University of Agriculture in Bernburg, the TH Köthen and the TH Leuna-Merseburg. The first higher education structure law (HSG) of the state of Saxony-Anhalt of February 28, 1992 stipulated the abolition of these universities, and new technical colleges were to be created in their place.

As a result of an evaluation of the TH Leuna-Merseburg (THL-M) by the Science Council , it was decided to unite the three high-performance and competitive departments of chemistry, process engineering and materials and processing technology with the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). For this purpose, an integration commission was formed to prepare and accompany this unification process. However, this association was not successful in the long term, so that the technical and scientific structures at the MLU gradually dissolved and were partially relocated to the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg .

At the same time, the new Merseburg University of Applied Sciences was founded on April 1, 1992 for the southern region of Saxony-Anhalt. Teschke was appointed here as a professor of mathematics and at the same time entrusted with the tasks of a founding rector in Merseburg .

Here Teschke encountered a scientific landscape in which there was no experience with the university form of a university of applied sciences . However, he himself had professional experience in this area, not least from his teaching position at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences . In addition, he knew the Halle / Merseburg region from his previous work at the PH Halle / Saale.

Merseburg campus, main building

In Merseburg he found a university campus that had grown since 1954 and was partly in need of renovation, which immediately made it possible to accommodate the new technical college. In addition to the buildings for teaching and research, the campus also had the necessary infrastructure such as administration buildings, a large cafeteria, dormitories and a modern university library, which in 1990 was the first in the new federal states to be connected to the German Science Network. When setting up the new university administration, Teschke was able to rely on employees with experience from the old federal states, who then had a lasting impact on the university over a period of more than 20 years.

Teschke took on the task in particular to profile the FH Merseburg professionally and to build up a new faculty for this purpose. He formed departments with which basic subject areas were covered. The subject structure of the new university consisted of engineering (mechanical engineering including heat engineering, electrical engineering with automation and communications technology, chemical engineering including chemical technologies) as well as economics and social sciences , whereby a complete redesign was necessary for the last two disciplines.

When building up the teaching staff and administration, Teschke was able to draw on highly qualified and in some cases habilitated members of the old THL-M as well as young academics from the region who were unaffected by the GDR past, and he systematically supplemented them by appointing experts from the old federal states .

Teschke also supported the urgently needed securing and collection of items from the chemical industry, which is strongly represented here in the region ( Leuna , Buna ) and was currently going through a serious restructuring process. A German Chemistry Museum Merseburg of European standing later developed from this collection on the Merseburg campus .

For February 1, 1993 Teschke took his newly founded University of Applied Sciences also the host function across the entire campus. On March 31, 1993, the technical college "Carl Schorlemmer" Leuna-Merseburg was legally annulled. The last rector was the mathematician Alfred Göpfert , who took over this office in December 1992. His repeal commissioner was Klaus-Peter Schumacher , who holds a doctorate in chemistry and who then moved to the University of Applied Sciences as Head of Human Resources and Household. With Göpfert and Schumacher, Teschke was able to close the old and found the new university in largely harmony.

The immediately neighboring state of Saxony also followed the recommendations of the Science Council and closed five technical universities. In their place, universities of applied sciences have also been newly established here, with the University of Technology, Economics and Culture (HTWK) in Leipzig immediately adjacent . Teschke supported the cooperation between the two neighboring universities out of the conviction that these are of great importance because they not only have to secure the next generation of skilled workers for their respective regions with a large industrial share, but also have to perform a variety of tasks at the two dissolved technical universities , especially in advanced training and technology transfer as well as in industry-related research.

Further work in Hamburg

After completing the essential founding work, Teschke returned to HAW Hamburg in 1994. The mathematician Johanna Wanka was elected as his successor in the office of rector in the spring of 1994. She successfully continued the expansion of the Merseburg University of Applied Sciences in the aforementioned sense, supplementing teaching in the six departments, in particular with regard to application-oriented research and technology transfer. In 2000 she was appointed Minister of Education for the State of Brandenburg to Potsdam , then in 2010 for the State of Lower Saxony to Hanover , and in 2013 she finally became Federal Minister for Education and Research in the cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel .

Teschke worked in Hamburg from 1996 to 1998 as Vice President of the HAW under its longstanding President Rolf Dalheimer . For the first time it was now possible to apply university experience from the east to the west of Germany. In 2001 Teschke retired when he reached the age limit. Until 2013 he continued to work as a lecturer for engineering mathematics at the HAW Hamburg.

He has remained closely associated with the Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, which he founded. In 2006 Teschke was made the first honorary senator of the Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, which is to be classified as a particularly high appreciation of his achievements as founding rector, because after him Dominik Surek was appointed second honorary senator only in 2013 .

Fonts (selection)

About the normal divisors of the p-Sylow group of the symmetric group of degree . ${\ displaystyle p ^ {m}}$ Dissertation. University of Halle / Saale, Faculty of Natural Sciences 1973.
Algebraic studies on the theory of convex optimization. Habilitation thesis, Ilmenau University of Technology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences 1978.

Web links

Website by Lothar Teschke
Former rectors: Lothar Teschke , Merseburg University of Applied Sciences website

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Pritzkow: Technical chemistry. In: Klaus Krug , Hans-Joachim Hörig, Dieter Schnurpfeil (editor): 50 years of the university in Merseburg. Merseburg contributions to the history of the chemical industry in Central Germany, publisher: Förderverein Sachzeugen der chemical Industrie e. V., Merseburg, Vol. 9 (2004) No. 1, pp. 41-46.
^ Klaus Hartmann: System process engineering. In: Klaus Krug , Hans-Joachim Hörig, Dieter Schnurpfeil (editor): 50 years of the university in Merseburg. Merseburg contributions to the history of the chemical industry in Central Germany, publisher: Förderverein Sachzeugen der chemical Industrie e. V., Merseburg, Vol. 9 (2004) No. 1, pp. 93-98.
^ Hans-Joachim Radusch: Material Science. In: Klaus Krug , Hans-Joachim Hörig, Dieter Schnurpfeil (editor): 50 years of the university in Merseburg. Merseburg contributions to the history of the chemical industry in Central Germany, publisher: Förderverein Sachzeugen der chemical Industrie e. V., Merseburg, Vol. 9 (2004) No. 1, pp. 115-124.
↑ Wissenschaftsrat : Recommendations on the future structure of the university landscape in the new federal states and in the eastern part of Berlin. Part I to IV. Cologne 1992.
^ Bernd Janson: From the library of the TH "Carl Schorlemmer" Leuna-Merseburg to the university library in Merseburg. In: Jürgen Heeg and Jens Lazarus: "Chemistry brings bread, prosperity, beauty" - Festschrift for Klaus Krug to see his retirement on March 31, 2005. Hochschule Merseburg, Bibliothek, Merseburg 2005, pp. 49–64.
^ Hans-Georg Sehrt: The SCI, the "German Chemistry Museum Merseburg" and the time. Comments on a start-up and its legitimation. In: Jürgen Heeg and Jens Lazarus: "Chemistry brings bread, prosperity, beauty" - Festschrift for Klaus Krug on his retirement on March 31, 2005. Hochschule Merseburg, Bibliothek, Merseburg 2005, pp. 105–116.
↑ Werner Kriesel ; Hans Rohr; Andreas Koch: History and future of measurement and automation technology. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, pp. 51–114 and 217–222, ISBN 3-18-150047-X .
^ Wissenschaftsrat: Recommendations on the engineering sciences at the universities and technical colleges of the new federal states. July 1991, p. 96 ff. , Accessed on July 23, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Teschke, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 24, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Giant castle

[1] Wilhelm Pritzkow: Technical chemistry. In: Klaus Krug , Hans-Joachim Hörig, Dieter Schnurpfeil (editor): 50 years of the university in Merseburg. Merseburg contributions to the history of the chemical industry in Central Germany, publisher: Förderverein Sachzeugen der chemical Industrie e. V., Merseburg, Vol. 9 (2004) No. 1, pp. 41-46.

[2] Klaus Hartmann: System process engineering. In: Klaus Krug , Hans-Joachim Hörig, Dieter Schnurpfeil (editor): 50 years of the university in Merseburg. Merseburg contributions to the history of the chemical industry in Central Germany, publisher: Förderverein Sachzeugen der chemical Industrie e. V., Merseburg, Vol. 9 (2004) No. 1, pp. 93-98.

[3] Hans-Joachim Radusch: Material Science. In: Klaus Krug , Hans-Joachim Hörig, Dieter Schnurpfeil (editor): 50 years of the university in Merseburg. Merseburg contributions to the history of the chemical industry in Central Germany, publisher: Förderverein Sachzeugen der chemical Industrie e. V., Merseburg, Vol. 9 (2004) No. 1, pp. 115-124.

[4] Wissenschaftsrat : Recommendations on the future structure of the university landscape in the new federal states and in the eastern part of Berlin. Part I to IV. Cologne 1992.

[5] Bernd Janson: From the library of the TH "Carl Schorlemmer" Leuna-Merseburg to the university library in Merseburg. In: Jürgen Heeg and Jens Lazarus: "Chemistry brings bread, prosperity, beauty" - Festschrift for Klaus Krug to see his retirement on March 31, 2005. Hochschule Merseburg, Bibliothek, Merseburg 2005, pp. 49–64.

[6] Hans-Georg Sehrt: The SCI, the "German Chemistry Museum Merseburg" and the time. Comments on a start-up and its legitimation. In: Jürgen Heeg and Jens Lazarus: "Chemistry brings bread, prosperity, beauty" - Festschrift for Klaus Krug on his retirement on March 31, 2005. Hochschule Merseburg, Bibliothek, Merseburg 2005, pp. 105–116.

[7] Werner Kriesel ; Hans Rohr; Andreas Koch: History and future of measurement and automation technology. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, pp. 51–114 and 217–222, ISBN 3-18-150047-X .

[8] Wissenschaftsrat: Recommendations on the engineering sciences at the universities and technical colleges of the new federal states. July 1991, p. 96 ff. , Accessed on July 23, 2020 .