Manfred Neitzel

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Manfred Neitzel (* July 5, 1934 ; † January 24, 2022 in Kaiserslautern ) was a professor of mechanical and process engineering at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern , as well as the founding director and long-time head of the Institute for Composite Materials , which today belongs to the Leibniz Association .

biography

Neitzel studied mechanical engineering and received his doctorate in 1965 from the TH Hannover . In 1968 he habilitated on the subject of "composite materials in pressure vessel construction". From 1969 he worked at BASF , where he set up a working group in the research area of ​​composite materials. In 1990, Neitzel took over the management of the newly founded Institute for Composite Materials (IVW GmbH). In particular, he expanded the areas of processing technology and thermoplastic composites . Neitzel retired at the end of 2002.

He gave lectures on plastics and composite materials in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and supervised numerous doctoral theses. Neitzel was also co-author and editor of several textbooks.

Manfred Neitzel died on January 24, 2022 at the age of 87 in Kaiserslautern.

Award

Prime Minister Kurt Beck presented Neitzel with the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate on 20 November 2002 in Mainz .

Publications (selection)

  • with Ulf Breuer: The processing technology of fiber-plastic composites. Hanser Fachbuch Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-446-19012-2 .
  • Liquid impregnation with duroplastics and thermoplastics: IVW status colloquium on the DFG research group FOR. IVW publication series, 2001, ISBN 978-3-934930-21-6 .
  • with Peter Mitschang Composite Materials Handbook. Carl Hanser Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-446-22041-6 .
  • with Peter Mitschang, Ulf Breuer (editors): Handbook Composites. Carl Hanser Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-43696-1 . (English version)

literature

  • Klaus Friedrich: Festschrift for the composite material colloquium: on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Professor Dr.-Ing. Manfred Neitzel. Kaiserslautern, July 5, 1994.

web links

itemizations

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Neitzel passed away. In: ivw.uni-kl.de. January 24, 2022, retrieved January 31, 2022 .
  2. ↑ a b IVW: Order award and change of leadership. In: kunststoffe.de. December 13, 2002, retrieved January 31, 2022 .
personal data
SURNAME Neitzel, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer
BIRTH DATE July 5, 1934
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2022
PLACE OF DEATH Kaiserslautern