Lothar Wiedecke

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Lothar Wiedecke (born July 15, 1928 in Hamburg ; † August 17, 1986 in Braunschweig ) was a German physicist and university professor .

Life

Lothar Wiedecke was born in Hamburg in 1928. At the time of National Socialism he attended an Adolf Hitler school . He passed his Abitur in 1948 and then studied mathematics and physics in Hamburg and Kiel , where he received his doctorate in 1958. rer. nat. received his doctorate. He completed his habilitation in 1974 and briefly taught at the University of Kiel.

In 1975 Wiedecke became professor and head of the Technical Scientific Reports group at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Braunschweig. On August 1, 1985, he was appointed head of the Scientific Technical Cross-Sectional Tasks department at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin .

At PTB, he played a decisive role in setting up the German Calibration Service (DKD). He played a key role in determining the new version of the Verification Act . In December 1985, the German Technical Academy was founded in Helmstedt , whose concept he played a key role. The academy trains both specialists from German industry and scholarship holders from developing countries .

Wiedecke died in August 1986 after a long illness at the age of 58 in Braunschweig. He was buried on August 22, 1986 in Helmstedt.

Fonts (selection)

  • Comparison of the specific ionization of negatrons and positrons , Kiel 1957.
  • Poincaré vector bundles and relativistically invariant field equations , 1974.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Albert Heinen : NS-Ordensburgen Vogelsang, Sonthofen, Krössinsee , Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2011, p. 154.
  2. ↑ Rolf Volkmann: Wiedecke, Lothar, Prof. Dr. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 652 .
personal data
SURNAME Wiedecke, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1986
Place of death Braunschweig