Max Dohmann

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Max Dohmann (born March 3, 1939 in Hagen ) is a German engineering scientist .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a carpenter and three years in the construction trade, Dohmann studied construction at the State Engineering School for Construction in Hagen and graduated from RWTH Aachen University in 1968 . In 1974 he did his doctorate with Carl-Franz Seyfried at the Technical University of Hanover on the subject of "Waste water filtration with fine-grain filter material".

Following his work as deputy head of the construction and operations department at the Ruhrverband , Dohmann became head of the newly established department of urban water management at the University of Essen in 1983 . In 1987 he was appointed to RWTH Aachen University as the successor to Botho Böhnke. As a university professor and professor at the Institute for Urban Water Management at RWTH Aachen University, Dohmann established additional research focuses. The issues of rainwater treatment and sewer rehabilitation associated with urban drainage were examined more closely; Research on waste management, remediation of contaminated sites and recycling management also gained in importance. During his time in Aachen, the ISA supported the engineering discussions about the federal change in law to introduce “contaminated sites” and the associated discussion about the remediation of contaminated soils, as well as the change in waste management towards recycling management.

Dohmann also campaigned for advanced training in the field of water and waste management. He continued the Essen conference launched by his predecessor and founded, led and shaped a number of forums established in the professional world for the interdisciplinary exchange of practice and science.

As a managing board member, Max Dohmann headed the Research Institute for Water and Waste Management at RWTH Aachen University (FiW) from 1992, an affiliated institute of RWTH Aachen University, which deals with knowledge transfer in domestic and foreign practice. In 1999, due to Dohmann's significant commitment, the Testing and Development Institute for Wastewater Technology at RWTH Aachen University (PIA) was founded as a non-profit association and an affiliated institute of RWTH Aachen University. The aim of the association is to promote research in the field of decentralized wastewater disposal .

From 1998 to 2000, Max Dohmann was Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, but resigned this position after two years due to his appointment to the German Federal Government's Advisory Council for Environmental Issues .

Dohmann played a key role in founding and establishing the Education and Demonstration Center for Decentralized Wastewater Treatment (BDZ) in Leipzig , a project funded by the German Federal Environment Foundation. He has been chairman of the advisory board since it was founded in 2002, and is now an honorary member alongside Klaus Töpfer , Kurt Biedenkopf , Fritz Brickwedde and Peter Fritz .

In 2004 Dohmann was retired as head of the Chair and Institute for Urban Water Management after 17 years. Even after his retirement, he remains on the board of FiW and PIA.

Dohmann took over the position as head of the water management initiative of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2005.

He is a member of the Expert Council for Environmental Technology and Infrastructure (dex), which was founded in 2001 as an association of university professors and industrial companies.

From 1996 to 2005, Max Dohmann was a member of the board of the German Association for Water Management, Sewage and Waste (DWA) and of the advisory board of the DWA regional association in North Rhine-Westphalia. As a member of numerous specialist committees and working groups, he contributed his scientific findings to work on regulations and advanced training at the DWA.

Scientific dialogue

Max Dohmann had and still has a special role in the dialogue between science, practice and politics. He founded numerous series of events and ensured the exchange through publications and discussions.

Under his leadership, these then new and intensely discussed substances were examined within the framework of the second graduate college of the German Research Foundation from 1999 to 2005 on the subject of "AGEESA: Aachen graduate college for the elimination of endocrine disrupting substances from municipal wastewater". With this he started the discussion about the so-called 4th cleaning stage .

Political activity

During his career, Dohmann advocated strengthening international cooperation, especially between Germany and China, as well as efficient environmental protection.

Wastewater Ordinance

Due to the algae plague and the death of seals in the North Sea in 1988, the Waste Water Ordinance was amended several times in the years up to 1990, among other things with the aim of eliminating phosphorus . At the time, the process technology of choice in many sewage treatment plants was downstream wastewater filtration. Max Dohmann created the scientific basis for this with his dissertation on this process step.

Expert council for environmental issues

From 2000 to 2004, Max Dohmann was a member of the SRU and, among other things, played a key role in the 2002 environmental report by describing the opportunities and necessities of Germany's innovation-oriented pioneering role in environmental policy based on Agenda 21.

China

As early as the 1980s, Dohmann established contacts with the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University in Beijing and initiated the exchange of knowledge on technologies and management methods in wastewater and waste treatment. Until 1999, Dohmann consolidated the connection by initiating and holding German-Chinese environmental symposia. At his instigation, the "Environmental Science" course was set up at Sichuan University and Beijing Tsinghua University. During this time he supervised numerous scholarship holders, interns and doctoral students. With his work, Dohmann made a contribution to environmental protection in China and also enabled the further development of cooperation between politics, companies and research institutions with partners in China. For this he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, in 2006. Various Chinese research institutes recognized Dohmann for his commitment with honorary professorships .

As part of the “5 + 1 program” of the Chinese central government, internationally renowned scientists and Nobel Prize winners have been obliged for several years to pass on their knowledge to Chinese students. In this context, from 2004 Dohmann taught as an honorary professor at the Sichuan University in Chengdu, China.

Honors

  • 1999: Honorary professor at the China School of Public Administration in Beijing
  • 2003: Appointment as high-end professor in the 5 + 1 program by Sichuan University in Chengdu
  • 2006: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
  • 2007: Honorary Professor at Tsinghua University
  • 2014: Max-Prüß-Medal ( DWA )
  • 2014: Honorary member of the BDZ

Fonts

  • Waste water filtration with fine-pored filter material. Institute for Urban Water Management. Technical University of Hanover, 1975.
  • (Ed.): Water hazard from leaky sewers. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 978-3-540-64212-1 .

Max Dohmann is editor of the Aachen series of publications on urban drainage and the Aachen series of publications on waste - recycling - contaminated sites .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ATV-DVWK: Max Dohmann 65 years In: KA Abwasser Abfall. 51, No. 1, 2004, ISSN  1616-430X , pp. 309-310.
  2. ↑ Max Dohmann turns 75. GFA - specialist information about water, economy and the environment. Communication dated February 17, 2014. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
  3. ↑ 50 years of the Institute for Urban Water Management at RWTH Aachen University. In: acwa aktuell. 15th edition, March 2017. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
  4. ↑ Employee of the ISA of the RWTH Aachen. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
  5. ↑ 50 years of the Institute for Urban Water Management at RWTH Aachen University. In: acwa aktuell. 15th edition, March 2017. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
  6. ^ Honorary members of the BDZ. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
  7. ↑ RWTH Aachen says goodbye to its “wastewater pope”. In: Aachener Zeitung. July 19, 2004. Retrieved February 12, 2019
  8. ^ Max-Prüß-Medal for Prof. Dohmann. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
  9. ↑ Research Training Group 546 of the DFG: Endocrine Disruptors in Wastewater - Elimination, Balancing and Evaluation from 1999 to 2004. Accessed on February 14, 2019
  10. ↑ Former council members of the Advisory Council for Environmental Issues on the website of the German Association for Water Management, Sewage and Waste. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
  11. ↑ ATV-DVWK: Max Dohmann 65 years In: KA Abwasser Abfall. 51, No. 1, 2004, ISSN  1616-430X , pp. 309-310
  12. ↑ A super tunnel for Shanghai. FH Münster - University of Applied Sciences. Press release of February 6, 2019. Accessed February 12, 2019.
  13. ↑ Max Dohmann, Head of WWI, receives Federal Cross of Merit, First Class. Article in the e-journal of unitracc.de on November 3, 2006. Accessed on February 12, 2019.
  14. ↑ Max Dohmann receives the third honorary professorship in China. Article in the e-journal of unitracc.de on December 3, 2007. Accessed on February 12, 2019.
  15. ↑ Max Dohmann takes on high-end professorship in China. Science information service. Aachen newspaper. September 8, 2010. Accessed February 12, 2019
  16. ^ Winner of the Max-Prüß-Medal on the website of the German Association for Water Management, Sewage and Waste. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Dohmann, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineering scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen