Manfred Peschel

Manfred Peschel (born April 12, 1932 in Olbersdorf ; † February 26, 2002 in Großschönau (Saxony) ) was a German mathematician , systems theorist and cyberneticist and professor of control engineering .

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Manfred Peschel studied mathematics at the Humboldt University in Berlin (HUB) from 1951 to 1957 . After completing his studies, he worked at the Funkwerk Köpenick in Berlin and then until 1966 in the computer center of the Humboldt University (head: Gunter Schwarze ). In 1965 he was with the work of research on the concept of convexity at Humboldt University doctorate .

In 1966 he was appointed full professor to the chair for control engineering at what was then the Technical University of Karl-Marx-Stadt . In 1970 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on cybernetic systems theory .

After 1970, Peschel dealt specifically with applications of the theory of fuzzy sets in engineering and, from the mid-1970s, with the modeling of growth processes as well as structure formation and self-organization . He was particularly interested in the modeling of dynamic systems using the Lotka-Volterra equations .

In 1972 he returned to Berlin, where he was head of the research area Mathematics and Cybernetics (later: Mathematics and Computer Science) at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW) from 1973 to 1986 . He was also a representative of the GDR at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg near Vienna . Scientists from many countries around the world changed frequently at the IIASA itself, so that he has grown into a global network of contacts to which his colleagues from the GDR, Horst Strobel ( University of Transport , Dresden) and Hans-Joachim Zander (Academy of Sciences of the GDR / Central Institute for Cybernetics and Information Processes , Dresden area) and Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski ( Humboldt University in Berlin ) belonged.

From 1986 to 1989 he was at the Center for Scientific Equipment and from 1989 Head of Department at the Institute for Computer Science and Computing (IIR) of the AdW. During this time he was also the spokesman for the Council of Institute Representatives and its representative at the Academy's round table . In the presidential election of the AdW on May 17, 1990, he was one of the five candidates , and the result of the election determined the physician Horst Klinkmann , who held this office as the last president of the AdW until 1992.

In 1983 Peschel was awarded the National Prize of the GDR III for his scientific work in the field of cybernetic system theory and its application to modeling and optimization . Excellent for science and technology. In 1979 he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. He was a member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin .

Peschel's areas of work included polyoptimization , theory of search processes and modeling . He wrote about 60 specialist books.

literature

Annette Vogt : Peschel, Manfred . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

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Individual evidence

↑ Academic history: Academy President Professor Dr. Horst Klinkmann in conversation, recorded on June 4th and 12th, 1991 by Herbert Wöltge. In: Herbert Wöltke (Ed.): Colloquium "Cooperating, Networking, Implementing" on July 14, 2015 in Rostock-Warnemünde, patronage Erwin Sellering, Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania; Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, in honor of Horst Klinkmann on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, volume 127, year 2016, pp. 114–115 and 136. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2016, pp. 111-137, ISBN 978-3-86464-133-6 .

^ Members of the previous academies. Manfred Peschel. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on May 26, 2015 .

^ Lothar Budach : Manfred Peschel (obituary). In: LEIBNIZ INTERN, communications from the Leibniz Society (No. 14). August 15, 2002, p. 8.

personal data
SURNAME	Peschel, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mathematician, system theorist and cyberneticist, professor of control engineering
DATE OF BIRTH	April 12, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Olbersdorf
DATE OF DEATH	February 26, 2002
Place of death	Großschönau (Saxony)

[1] Academic history: Academy President Professor Dr. Horst Klinkmann in conversation, recorded on June 4th and 12th, 1991 by Herbert Wöltge. In: Herbert Wöltke (Ed.): Colloquium "Cooperating, Networking, Implementing" on July 14, 2015 in Rostock-Warnemünde, patronage Erwin Sellering, Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania; Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, in honor of Horst Klinkmann on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, volume 127, year 2016, pp. 114–115 and 136. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2016, pp. 111-137, ISBN 978-3-86464-133-6 .