Manfred Kummer

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Manfred Kummer (born  July 29, 1928 in Planitz ; †  December 8, 2012 ) was a German electrical engineer and university professor for high frequency technology .

Life

After finishing school, he studied low-voltage and high-frequency technology at what was then the Technical University (TH) and now the Technical University of Dresden . In 1956 he moved to Ilmenau to the Institute for High Frequency Technology and Electron Tubes of the then University of Electrical Engineering (HfE), now the Technical University of Ilmenau , which in 1963 became the Technical University (TH).

With his dissertation on a theme from the field of microwave technology , he was there for the Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) PhD before he in 1968 to professor was appointed and the line took of the Department of microwave technology. In the same year he also became the director of the Information Technology and Theoretical Electrical Engineering Section. Until his age-related retirement, he supervised more than forty doctoral students and remained closely associated with microwave technology afterwards. He died after a long illness at the age of 84.

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  1. Kummer, Manfred at zs.thulb.uni-jena.de , accessed on July 17, 2019.
  2. Obituary in the Ilmenau University News from 2013, p. 53, accessed on July 17, 2019.