Lothar Wilhelmy

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Lothar Wilhelmy (born June 6, 1940 in Kiel ) is a German entrepreneur and founder .

Life

Wilhelmy came in 1955 with his family to Stuttgart, after his father Herbert Wilhelmy a reputation as a full professor at the Department of Geography at the Technical University of Stuttgart had assumed and completed in 1960 at Charles High School his high school . He then began studying electrical engineering with a focus on measurement and control engineering at the Technical University of Stuttgart, since 1967 at the University of Stuttgart , which he obtained in 1972 with a doctorate in engineering. graduated with the dissertation Potential-free field strength measurement in a space-charge-free periodically time-dependent and transient electric field .

Lothar Wilhelmy has been married since 1970 and has two sons.

Wilhelmy spent his professional career in Berlin from 1972. In 1973 he became head of the development / electronics department at Krone, where he was appointed technical director in 1974. In 1978 he took over the management of Kamphausen Messtechnik. From 1983 until his retirement in 2006 he was the sole director and co-partner of Hübner Elektromaschinen AG, a specialist company for speed sensors in heavy-duty technology for electrical drive technology . In 1991 he was able to acquire the Thalheim Tachometerbau company in Eschwege and integrate it into the Hübner network. In addition to his management tasks, he devoted himself intensively to new and further developments, which led to numerous specialist articles and patent applications. The growth of the Huebner Group required several times a capital increase, in which he participated. In 2002, Hübner had the opportunity to look for a suitable technology partner and to win Baumer AG as the new majority shareholder.

In 2003/2004, as President of the Rotary Club Berlin-Süd, he set up the first Rotary Foundation of all Berlin Rotary Clubs with the focus on supporting the gifted and significantly promoted it. In 2011, on his initiative, a tactile model of the Museum Island for the blind and sighted was set up next to the Altes Museum in Berlin.

Foundation establishment

After retiring in 2006, Wilhelmy took over the Dr. Wilhelmy Foundation as a legal foundation under civil law established in Berlin with the purpose of promoting science and research, education and upbringing, as well as art and culture, monument protection and monument preservation, in particular by awarding the Klung Wilhelmy Science Price . In 2010 he donated his shares in the Hübner Group to the foundation, which it sold to the main shareholder in 2011. The management of the foundation capital and the foundation is now in the hands of the German Foundation Center in the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft .

Honors

On February 15, 2017, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for the Promotion of Science awarded by the Federal President . In 2008 the Rotary Club Berlin-Süd awarded him the Paul Harris Medal and in 2011 the Paul Harris Medal with Sapphire for many years of service to the club.

Publications (selection)

  • Without gear and without battery - newly developed robust multiturn absolute encoder, drive technology 1/2006
  • Rotary acceleration sensor enables high-precision speed control, Antriebstechnik 38 (1999) No. 4
  • Precision sine digital speedometer for speed and position, top ten automation KEM 1996
  • LongLife or brushless - comparison of modern speed actual value transducers, Antriebstechnik 28 (1989) No. 6

Patents (selection)

  • Patent DE10355859 : Device for detecting movements and / or positions of an object (micro generator as energy source for a multiturn absolute encoder ). Filed November 26, 2003 , published March 10, 2005 .
  • Patent DE10329978 : Electronic revolution counter . Filed June 26, 2003 , published January 27, 2005 .
  • Patent DE19828372 : Device for measuring rotary or linear accelerations (acceleration sensor based on the Ferraris principle ). Filed June 17, 1998 , published December 30, 1998 .
  • Patent DE19508700 : Device for obtaining largely harmonic-free periodic signals (sinusoidal signals for rotary encoders ). Filed March 2, 1995 , published August 14, 1996 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dissertation in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. Baumer Chronology
  3. Interview with Dr. Lothar Wilhelmy at KEM
  4. ^ Foundation Rotary Club Berlin-Süd
  5. Touch model Museum Island Berlin
  6. ^ Klung Wilhelmy Science Prize
  7. State Secretary Krach presents Lothar Wilhelmy with the Order of Merit for the Promotion of Science