Manfred Thoma

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Manfred Thoma (born February 24, 1929 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz ; † November 10, 2014 ) was a German engineer and university professor . He was a professor for control engineering at the Technical University of Hanover .

Life

Thoma trained as an electrician and passed the journeyman's examination in 1951 . Until 1954, it closed the Polytechnic Nuremberg an engineering education at. He then studied with Winfried Oppelt at the Technical University of Darmstadt , where he then worked as a research assistant and senior assistant. Together with K. Barth and R. Bräu, Thoma was one of the first assistants at the Chair and Institute for Control Engineering, founded in 1957 and headed by Oppelt. Thoma also received his doctorate here in 1963.

After a guest professorship at Purdue University in Lafayette in 1964/1965 , he was appointed full professor for control engineering at the Technical University of Hanover (today: Leibniz University of Hanover ) in 1967. During this time he was Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering from 1971 to 1972 . In 1997 he retired .

Thoma maintained contacts with industry as President of the International Congress with Exhibition for Measurement Technology and Automation (Interkama) in Düsseldorf.

Thoma worked actively in the VDI / VDE Society for Measurement and Automation Technology (GMA) in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt / Main, which is also the national member organization of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). From 1984 to 1987 he was President of IFAC and organized the 10th IFAC World Congress in 1987 in Munich .

In connection with this activity, his worldwide contacts and especially his relationships with specialist colleagues in the GDR are to be seen. The latter go back to the first founding institutes for control engineering in German-speaking countries: 1955 at the TH Dresden by Heinrich Kindler , 1957 at the TH Darmstadt by Winfried Oppelt and at the RWTH Aachen by Otto Schäfer . Winfried Oppelt and Heinrich Kindler had successfully endeavored to maintain professional and personal contacts despite the growing political restrictions.

These contacts were continued by their academic students in West and East, so that particularly good relationships developed between the later professorships of Manfred Thoma (Hanover), Günther Schmidt (Munich), Franz Mesch (Karlsruhe), Heinz Töpfer (Magdeburg, Dresden) , Hans-Joachim Zander (Dresden), Karl Reinisch (Ilmenau) and others. Thoma cultivated his many professional and personal connections all over the world, so that his family members characterized him in the obituary as “happy to travel”.

In the early 1990s, Thoma lived in the Gartenhofsiedlung in the Marienwerder district of Hanover .

Awards

Fonts

  • A simple method for determining the root distribution <stability> of linear sampling control systems. Technical University of Darmstadt, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, dissertation from March 22, 1963.
  • Theory of linear control systems - with 71 examples and 150 exercises. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1973. ISBN 3-528-04850-6 .
  • Manfred Thoma, Günther Schmidt (Hrsg.): Advances in measurement and automation technology through information technology - INTERKAMA Congress 1986. Springer-Verlag, Berlin; Heidelberg; New York; London; Paris; Tokyo 1986. ISBN 3-540-17033-2 .
  • Heinz Töpfer 60 years. In: Automation technology, Munich. Vol. 38, No. 7, 1990, pp. 245-246.
  • Heinz Töpfer 65 years. In: Automation technology, Munich. Vol. 43, No. 6, 1995, p. 316. (with D. Werner).
  • Karl Heinz Fasol , Rudolf Lauber; Franz Mesch , Heinrich Rake , Manfred Thoma, Heinz Töpfer : Great Names and the Early Days of Control in Germany. In: Automation technology, Munich. Vol. 54, No. 9, 2006, pp. 462-472.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Manfred Thoma in: Who is who - Das deutsche Who's Who 2000/2001 . 39th edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Verlagsgruppe Beleke, Lübeck 2000, p. 1416, ISBN 978-3-7950-2029-3 .
  2. ↑ a b obituary notice , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from November 15, 2014
  3. ^ Winfried Oppelt : Small manual of technical control processes. Verlag Chemie, Weinheim 1954, 4th edition Verlag Chemie, Weinheim and Verlag Technik, Berlin 1964, 5th edition 1972, ISBN 3-527-25347-5 .
  4. ^ Franz Mesch: Classics, reread: W. Oppelt, Small Handbook of Technical Control Processes. In: Automation technology, Munich. Vol. 35, 1987, pp. 221-224.
  5. ^ Obituary of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 22, 2014
  6. ↑ Werner Kriesel , Hans Rohr, Andreas Koch: History and future of measurement and automation technology. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, p. 13, ISBN 3-18-150047-X .
  7. ↑ Dagmar Albrecht (ed.) Et al. : Experience of the residents , in this: Today in Marienwerder. A district book about different people, historical sights, the environment and nature , 199 pages, with drawings by Gisela Blumenbach and others as well as photographs by Kristin Beier et al., Hannover-Marienwerder: D. Albrecht, 1992, p. 25f.
  8. ↑ Honor roll of the Ruhr University Bochum , accessed on November 16, 2014
  9. ↑ Outstanding Service Award Recipients 1990-2008 (pdf), accessed on November 16, 2014
  10. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Manfred Thoma. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 26, 2015 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Thoma, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, professor of control engineering
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate , Germany
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 2014