Monika Auweter-Kurtz

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Monika Auweter-Kurtz (born July 29, 1950 in Stuttgart ) is a German physicist . She is a university lecturer , space expert and former president of the University of Hamburg .

Life

Auweter-Kurtz studied physics and initially works as a physics teacher at the grammar school. In 1985, she was then a doctorate in engineering at the University of Stuttgart , 1991 habilitation she there with her thesis on "arc drives for space objects" and in 1992 was appointed professor for space transportation technology. 1997/1998 she was Vice Dean and 1998–2000 Dean of the Faculty of Space Technology at the University of Stuttgart. In 2006 she was elected President of the University of Hamburg and in October 2007 she was also appointed professor at the University of Hamburg. Due to dwindling support among the university's professors and pressure from politics, she resigned as president on July 8, 2009. Since November 2010 she has been the director of the German Aerospace Academy (ASA) in Böblingen.

The scientific focus of Monika Auweter-Kurtz are electric space propulsion, re-entry technology, plasma technology , entry into the atmospheres of other celestial bodies, MHD , Aero thermodynamics , measurement methods for flowing plasmas, plasma modeling and numerical simulation and sensor development for airports and high temperature applications.

criticism

Auweter-Kurtz was criticized even before her election as university president. She was accused by students of working as a rocket scientist, among other things, with the defense industry ; AStA members stood behind them. The tabloids and critics among the students coined the nickname "Rocket Moni".

In 2007, after a critical TV report in the ARD political magazine Monitor , Auweter-Kurtz is said to have enforced a so-called muzzle decree , according to which the university staff should, if possible, no longer comment on inquiries from journalists without asking the university press office. A lecturer who appeared in the contribution was withdrawn from teaching shortly afterwards.

In May 2009 Auweter-Kurtz came under fire after speaking out against the confirmation of the dean of the humanities faculty of the University of Hamburg, the theologian Hans-Martin Gutmann . Gutmann was unanimously elected as the new dean on May 6th. Confirmation of the deans by the university presidium is provided for by the university law of the former Senator Jörg Dräger from 2003.

In an appeal, 120 professors from the university then demanded that Auweter-Kurtz be deselected, because under her the university had "developed into an authoritarian institution". Five of the six deans were also critical. On June 25, five of the six deans (the dean of the medical faculty was not present) voted 4: 1 for Auweter-Kurtz to be voted out as university president. On July 3, 2009 her premature resignation from office became known through a termination agreement.

Awards

In 1999 Monika Auweter-Kurtz received the Federal Cross of Merit and on October 3, 2006 the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class.

In October 2009 she was awarded the Stuhlinger Medal , the highest international award for researchers in the field of electric space propulsion. In 2009 Auweter-Kurtz was accepted into the US “National Academy of Engineering”.

literature

  • Christa Pohl: Monika Auweter-Kurtz. Space professor . In: Lots of women. Detected in Baden-Württemberg. 47 portraits, Stuttgart: Theiss 2000, ISBN 3-8062-1525-1 , pp. 7–9.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simone Pauls: Ceremony for the new boss ( Memento from April 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hamburger Morgenpost online from February 2, 2007
  2. ↑ Florian Hanauer: President divides the student body In: Die Welt online from July 25, 2006
  3. ↑ Hermann Horstkotte, Jochen Leffers: SOS from the ghost ship In: Der Spiegel online from June 11, 2009
  4. ↑ Christiane Langrock-Kögel: Monika Auweter-Kurtz Hamburg University President in a sharp headwind . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . June 13, 2009, p. Opinion page .
  5. ↑ Meike Fries and Hermann Horstkotte: Rebellion against Rocket Moni In: Die Zeit online from June 10, 2009
  6. ↑ Per Hinrichs: "Rocket Moni" rows back In: Die Welt online from June 12, 2009
  7. ↑ Sandra Schäfer: "Rocket Moni" before the launch? ( Memento from July 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hamburger Morgenpost online from May 28, 2009
  8. ↑ Kaija Kutter: Rocket Moni on Ascension Day In: the daily newspaper online from June 29, 2009
  9. ↑ Access to "Rocket Moni". (No longer available online.) In: Bochumer Stadt- und Studierendenzeitung. Formerly in the original;
  10. ↑ Markus Klemm (dpa): "Rocket Moni" bows to protests In: shz online from June 12, 2009
  11. ↑ Violent allegations - The Hamburg university and freedom of expression. In: ZAPP. NDR, May 9, 2007, archived from the original on May 26, 2007 .;
  12. ^ Spiegel Online , accessed on May 10, 2007
  13. ↑ Michael Dreisigacker: Blockade from above . In: taz . May 10, 2009, p. 40 ( taz.de ).
  14. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt of May 27, 2009 , accessed on May 27, 2009
  15. ↑ taz of June 11, 2009 , accessed on June 11, 2009
  16. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt of June 26, 2009 , accessed on June 26, 2009
  17. ↑ Christoph Titz, Jochen Leffers: "Rocket Moni" over board In: Spiegel online from July 3, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Auweter-Kurtz, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart