Michael Lersow

Michael Lersow (1993)

Michael Peter Lersow (born December 20, 1946 in Stralsund ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and engineer.

Life

Lersow attended primary school in Schwerin. In 1963 he was expelled from the extended secondary school for political reasons after criticizing the construction of the wall . He was sentenced to eight months in prison for so-called “ flight from the republic ” and “state-endangering agitation”. Lersow did not do military service or alternative service in the GDR. As a result, he completed training as a skilled worker and obtained his Abitur in an evening school in 1965. In the Erzgebirge Breitenbrunn he studied from 1967 to 1970 mechanical engineering . By distance learning at the Technical University of Karl-Marx-Stadt , he obtained the academic degree of Diplom-Ingenieur in applied mechanics in 1976 and received his doctorate in 1984 at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg with a topic on the numerical modeling of the mechanical behavior of unconsolidated rocks. In his professional life, Lersow has always remained connected to the complex issue of the mechanical behavior of loose and solid rock bodies under extreme loads and boundary conditions (geotechnical structures and time-dependent stability). Numerous publications, developments and patents prove this. In the period from 1980 to 1990, Lersow was involved in an interdisciplinary working group at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg for the Konrad mine (currently under construction for radioactive waste with low heat generation) and Asse II on extensive stability verifications and the design and material composition of sealing structures. With the specialist books on the "final disposal of the various types of radioactive waste and residues", English version together with Peter Waggitt / Australien-NT, Lersow has succeeded in providing a globally unique summary of the current state of knowledge in this field, with an outlook for future developments [ 1,2].

Lersow was awarded the science prize of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg for the achievement "Locking systems for the safe storage of waste products" in the collective (1989).

For his political imprisonment, see BStU, he was rehabilitated in a united Germany by the Schwerin District Court in 1992.

In autumn 1989 he was involved in the commission for the democratization of the scientific and administrative structure at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. From November 1989 he was involved in building the Social Democratic Party in Freiberg and Karl-Marx-Stadt . In March 1990 Lersow became chairman of the SPD district association of Saxony-South, and two months later the first state chairman of the SPD Saxony . Under his leadership, the Saxon SPD achieved a respectable starting result in the elections for the first Saxon state parliament in October 1990 with 19.1%. In the first legislative period of the Saxon state parliament he was deputy parliamentary group leader of his party and propagated a clear opposition course to the sole ruling CDU under Prime Minister Kurt Biedenkopf , which was not supported by his group colleagues. In July 1993, after internal party disputes, he resigned the state chairmanship and left the state parliament in 1994.

In 1995 Lersow switched to the rehabilitation mining of the Lusatian and Central German lignite areas, where he a. a. contributed significantly to the development and safeguarding of jobs and apprenticeships. From 2005 he was managing director of the "Technical Department" of Wismut GmbH for the remediation and long-term protection of the legacies of the uranium ore mining of SDAG Wismut in Saxony and Thuringia, also in terms of mining law and radiation protection law (nuclear law). At the same time he was together with Dr. Christian Kunze Managing Director of WISUTEC Wismut Umwelttechnik GmbH (since mid-2010 WISUTEC Umwelttechnik GmbH).

Lersow has been honorary chairman of the "Tailings" working group of the German Society for Geotechnics eV since October 2007. a. engaged in the development of guidelines (requirements) for the design, operation and storage of tailings dams and their long-term stability.

He was retired due to old age from working as a scientific employee at the Federal Office for Radiation Protection in the area of ​​"Safety of Nuclear Waste Management". He lives with his wife in Breitenbrunn / Erzgebirge.

Honors

On May 15, 2010 he was awarded the Saxon Constitutional Medal by the President of the State Parliament Matthias Rößler "for his commitment to building a free and democratic Saxony" .

Fonts

• Lersow, Michael; Waggitt, Peter: Disposal of All Forms of Radioactive Waste and Residues - Long-Term Stable and Safe Storage in Geotechnical Environmental Structures; Springer Nature AG; Switzerland; ISBN 978-3-030-32909-9 and ISBN 978-3-030-32910-5 (ebook), 1st ed. 2020, IX, 449 p.
• Final storage of all types of radioactive waste and residues - long-term stable, long-term safe storage in geotechnical environmental structures - status, discussion and outlook. 1st edition; Pages: 448; Fig .: 121; Springer Spectrum, 2018
• Energy Source Uranium - Resources, Production and Adequacy. Mining Reporter - Glueckauf 153 (3); Pages 286-306; Essen, June 2017
• Safe Closure of Uranium Mill Tailings Ponds. keynote lecture on 6th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics 2010, New Delhi, India, Nov. 2010, proceedings, chapt. 1, p. 125-139
• Between Confrontation and Concession - Peaceful Revolution and German Unity in Saxony. Christoph Links Verlag GmbH, Berlin, September 2010, 1st edition, pp. 75–91
• Deep soil compaction as a method of ground improvement and to stabilization of wastes and slopes with danger of liquefaction, determining the modulus of deformation and shear strength parameters of loose rock . In: Elsevier Science, Waste Management, 21st vol. 2001, pp. 161-174
• (with W. Förster) Plate pressure test on the bottom of the borehole, determination of the stress-deformation behavior of loose rock and landfill materials, lignite. In: Surface Mining 50 (1998) 4, pp. 369-377
• (with V. Köckritz, P. Sitz): Cross-sectional sealing of underground cavities and boreholes with special consideration of the disposal of radioactive waste, part 2. In: Neue Bergbautechnik, 1990, 20th year, booklet 6, pp. 204-208.
• (with P. Sitz): Elasto-plastic stress deformation approach using the flow condition of Drucker-Prager for the calculation of thick-walled, circular-cylindrical linings . Freiberger Forschungshefte A 771, 1988, pp. 115–128.
• (with W. Förster, J. Kessler) "Contribution to the calculation of the gas pressure load of aquifer storage". Civil engineer 68, Springer Verlag 1993, pp. 191–196,
• Exhaustive proof of the soil mechanical behavior of loose rocks in stabilized extensive mining sites. XIIIth European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, August 2003, Prague.
• (with N. Hoth, C. Nitsche): Modular concept of technical solutions for the improvement of the water, quality of acid mine water from former open pits 4th International Conference on Filters and Drainage in Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering "Geofilters 2004" , October 2004, Stellenbosch, South Africa
• Storage of bismuth tailing ponds and decontamination of open water, pore water and seepage water. 57th BHT, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, German-Polish Mining Forum, June 2006.
• (with P. Schmidt): The Wismut Remediation Project. In: Proceedings of First International Seminar on Mine Closure, Sept. 2006, Perth, Australia, p. 181-190.
• (with H. Märten): Energy source uranium resources, extraction and ranges in terms of technological development . In: Glückauf 144 (2008) 3, pp. 116-122, Essen.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Saxon Constitutional Medal awarded. (No longer available online.) Saxon State Parliament, May 15, 2010, archived from the original on May 21, 2010 ; Retrieved May 17, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.