Manfred Horstmann

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Manfred Horstmann

Manfred Horstmann (born July 26, 1928 in Hamburg ; † February 7, 1992 in Osnabrück ) was a German physicist , university professor and founding rector and long-time president of the University of Osnabrück .

Manfred Horstmann was born on July 26, 1928 in Hamburg as the son of the works secretary Wilhelm Horstmann and his wife Marie, b. Schmidt, born. After attending elementary school and grammar school and completing the general university entrance qualification, he began studying physics at the University of Hamburg in 1949 . He finished his studies in 1955 with a thesis on the construction of a high frequency generator for inductive heating . In 1960 he was awarded the dissertation via an opposing field system for measuring energy and angular distributions of scattered electrons to Dr. rer. nat. PhD . In 1966 he completed his habilitation with the thesis Influence of thermal lattice vibrations on electron scattering in crystals . After his habilitation , he worked as a scientific advisor at the Institute for Applied Physics at the University of Hamburg. There he was appointed head of department and professor in 1971 . In 1972 he was offered a position at the newly founded University of Osnabrück , where he held the chair for experimental physics from 1973 to 1990 . With effect from June 15, 1974, he was entrusted by Lower Saxony's minister of education, Peter von Oertzen, with the duties of the Senate and Rector of the University of Osnabrück. He became the successor to the acting rector Heinz-Dietrich Doebner , who was the first to hold this office for half a year. On July 1, 1975 Horstmann was elected the first real rector of the University of Osnabrück. After the Lower Saxony Higher Education Act came into force , he was elected the first President of Osnabrück University on October 1, 1979. In the early years of the new university, Horstmann played a key role in building it up. He held the office of President until he was passed on September 30, 1990. Horstmann had given up the presidency due to health problems. He headed the university for a total of 16 years. His successor as the second president was Rainer Künzel . From 1974 to 1990 Horstmann was also head of the University of Osnabrück - Vechta Department , which later became the University of Vechta , which only became independent in 1995.

From 1986 to 1992 Horstmann was chairman of the Osnabrück Felix Nussbaum Society .

Manfred Horstmann died as a result of a serious illness on February 7, 1992 at the age of 63 in Osnabrück.

Manfred Horstmann's estate was handed over to the archive of the University of Osnabrück in 2010.

Honors

  • Manfred Horstmann received on January 2, 1991, the Justus Möser Medal of the city of Osnabrück as a recognition of the contribution to the development of the University .
  • Since 1993 the university has organized the Manfred Horstmann Lecture every year in memory of the scientist Manfred Horstmann and his achievements.
  • The guest house of the University of Osnabrück, which was set up in 1996, bears the name Manfred Horstmann House of the International Encounter in honor of Manfred Horstmanns by resolution of the Senate .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The university in numbers: leaflet with information about the University of Osnabrück, 2016.
  2. ↑ Horstmann, Manfred , in the database of Lower Saxon people in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , Hanover .
  3. ↑ Who is who? The German Who's Who: Volume 29, 1990/91, p. 599.
  4. ^ Horstmann, Manfred , catalog of the German National Library
  5. ^ Künzel, Rainer: Not built on sand: Festschrift for Manfred Horstmann: Contributions to the founding and development of the University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück 1990.
  6. ^ Zimmer, Wendelin: Turbulent times. A reader on the history of the University of Osnabrück, edited by the President of the University of Osnabrück, Universitätsverlag Rasch, Osnabrück 1999, p. 188.
  7. ^ Manfred Horstmann , University Archives Osnabrück
  8. ^ Justus Möser Medal , City of Osnabrück
  9. ^ Guest house - University of Osnabrück
personal data
SURNAME Horstmann, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist as well as founding rector and long-time president of the University of Osnabrück
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1992
Place of death Osnabrück