Otto Schaaf

Otto Schaaf (* 25. June 1956 in Hagen ) is a German civil engineer with water economic focus. Since 2006 he has been a board member of the Stadtentwässerungsbetriebe Köln (StEB), from 2007 to the end of 2018 President of the German Association for Water Management, Sewage and Waste . V. (DWA).

Life

Schaaf studied civil engineering at RWTH Aachen University from 1976 to 1982 . He then completed the technical traineeship in the field of urban construction in North Rhine-Westphalia and graduated in 1984 with the state examination as building assessor.

Schaaf began his professional activity in 1985 in Ludwigshafen. In the city administration, he took over the management of the city drainage department, which later became the city's own operation. In 1990 he moved to the city drainage office in Cologne. Here he held leading positions in the areas of sewerage and sewage treatment , flood protection and water maintenance. In 2006 Otto Schaaf was appointed to the board of the Stadtentwässerungsbetriebe Köln, which is now an institution under public law (AöR), a municipal company with around 650 employees.

Otto Schaaf lives in Hürth near Cologne, is married and has two daughters.

engagement

Otto Schaaf is also active outside of his professional work. On the initiative of the StEB and in particular Otto Schaaf, the Cologne Water School was established as a cooperation with the two partners RheinEnergie AG and Wasserforum Köln e. V. founded.

Schaaf also works on a voluntary basis in specialist and management committees of the German Association for Water Management, Wastewater and Waste e. V. (DWA) with. For ten years he was chairman of the DWA main committee “Drainage Systems”. During this time he got involved in European standardization work, among other things. For the DWA, he worked at the European Standardization Institute (CEN) in the Technical Committee 165 “Wastewater Technology” and in the working group 22 “Drainage systems outside of buildings”.

Otto Schaaf has been a member of the DWA Presidium since January 1, 2000. Within the Presidium, he headed the DWA Honors Commission for several years until he was elected President of the DWA on January 1, 2007. During his presidency, the DWA policy advice was set up. The opening of the DWA Berlin office in June 2007 and the DWA federal conference, which has been taking place every two years in Berlin since 2011, are visible signs of this. In particular, he maintains the cooperation with the sister associations in Austria and Switzerland.

In addition to his voluntary work in the DWA, Otto Schaaf performs managerial tasks at the German Association of Cities (DST), the Alliance of Public Water Management (AöW), the Association of Municipal Enterprises (VKU), the Flood Competence Center, the Cologne Water Forum and the quality protection of sewer construction.

At the Society for the Promotion of Abwassertechnik e. V. (GFA), a service company of DWA, is Schaaf's chairman of the board and publishes, among other things, the water management-relevant magazines KA-Korrespondenz Abfall & Abwasser and KW-Korrespondenz Wasserwirtschaft, as well as the KA-Betriebsinfo, as well as the water information.

Schaaf is also a member of the jury for the GreenTechAwards.

Honors

Otto Schaaf was made an honorary member of the Austrian Water and Waste Management Association (ÖWAV) in 2014 for his services to water and waste management and for the cooperation between the DWA and the Austrian sister organization.

Publications (selection)

• Schaaf, Otto / Lenz, Jutta: "Aqua Colonia" History for the Municipal Drainage in Cologne, 12th IWA Specialized Conference on Design, Operation and Economics of Large Wastewater Treatment Plants, Prague 2015
• Schaaf, Otto / Lenz, Jutta: Sewage sludge recycling in Cologne , Kommunal-Verlag, Fachverlag für Kommunalwirtschaft und Umwelttechnik GmbH, Kommunalwirtschaft magazine, issue 09/2015, Wuppertal 2015
• Schaaf, Otto / Lenz, Jutta: Functional testing of private property drainage systems - what now? , Aachener Schriften zur Stadtentwässerung, Volume 17, Pages 2 / 1–2 / 9, Aachen 2013
• Schaaf, Otto / Lenz, Jutta: Public Relations and Customer Perspectives in Public Enterprises , Aachener Schriften zur Stadtentwässerung, Volume 16, Pages 1 / 1–1 / 10, Aachen 2012
• Schaaf, Otto / Lenz, Jutta: Perspektivenkonzept 2020 , Aachener Schriften zur Stadtentwässerung, Volume 15, Pages 3 / 1–3 / 13, Aachen 2011
• Schaaf, Otto (eds.) / Kasper, Manfred: Aqua Colonia - The history of urban drainage in Cologne , Cologne 2000
• Schaaf, Otto / Lenz, Jutta: Thinking about the future today: Demographic change as a challenge for water management , water competence: Cologne specialist journal for wastewater, flood protection and bodies of water; Issue 23, pp. 24-27
• Schaaf, Otto: Benchmarking , Bundestag DWA: 26./27. September 2012 in Magdeburg, p. 15
• Schaaf, Otto / Brandenburg, Heinz / Luciani, Robert: Asset Management at StEB Cologne: With risk-based maintenance for efficient plant operation, water protection - water - wastewater (GWA) ; Vol. 220, article 63
• Schaaf, Otto / Lenz, Jutta: Determination of the current situation and future prospects for the German water industry, water protection - water - wastewater (GWA) ; Vol. 220, article 1
• Schaaf, Otto: The water management of the future: possible framework conditions and consequences, initiatives for environmental protection ; Vol. 81, pp. 32-43
• Schaaf, Otto / Lenz, Jutta: Location determination and future opportunities of the German water industry , KW - Korrespondenz Wasserwirtschaft, 08/2010, pp. 410–416
• Schaaf, Otto: Everything in flux: Cologne's flood protection in the context of national and European developments , competence water: Cologne specialist journal for waste water, flood protection and waters; Issue 16, pp. 4–8
• Schaaf, Otto / Brandenburg, Heinz: Joint rehabilitation of public and private sewers, series of publications Siedlungswasserwirtschaft Bochum (SIWAWI); Issue 52, pp. 157-174
• Schaaf, Otto / Waidelich, Peter: Optimized sewer operation with the use of an operations management system , KA - Abwasser, Abfall, 6/2006, pp. 582–586
• Schaaf, Otto: City and the surrounding area in dialogue , Abwasserforum Köln: Fachjournal für Abwassertechnik; Issue 14, pp. 16-21
• Schaaf, Otto / Lüth, Nina / Kleine, Thomas: Employee survey at Cologne city drainage companies: Recognizing your own potential , KA - Abwasser, Abfall, 5/2005, pp. 604–607
• Schaaf, Otto / Waidelich, Peter: Optimized sewer operation with the use of an operations management system , Abwasserforum Köln: Fachjournal für Abwassertechnik; Issue 13, pp. 9-14
• Schaaf, Otto / Oelmann, Hubertus: Cologne city drainage as an institution under public law , KA - Abwasser, Abfall, 2/2004, pp. 146–151
• Schaaf, Otto: New ways of the city drainage company Cologne in testing and renovation of property pipes, Abwasserforum Köln: Fachjournal für Abwassertechnik; Issue 12, pp. 7-14
• Schaaf, Otto: Benchmarking - example from the municipal drainage company in Cologne , Feugrès Congress 2001: 14th International Meeting; Barcelona 2001, pp. 72-74
• Schaaf, Otto: Operating and renovation strategies for the public sewer system: targeted action lowers costs , series of publications ad Institut f. Pipeline construction FH Oldenburg, vol. 16, pp. 23–42
• Schaaf, Otto: Targeted action lowers costs: rehabilitation strategies for public sewer systems , environment, 4/99, p. 26 ff.
• Schaaf, Otto: Economic management of a high-performance center: example of Cologne city drainage , awt abwassertechnik, 1/98, p. 33 ff.
• Schaaf, Otto: Concept for the management of a sewer system , awt Abwassertechnik, 6/96, p. 6 ff.

Web links

• Otto Schaaf on the website of the Flood Competence Center
• GFA - about us
• DWA - German Association for Water Management, Sewage and Waste e. V. website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Inauguration of Otto Schaaf as DWA President - "baton handover" in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, press release on press box from January 25, 2007
2. ↑ Otto Schaaf - Board member of Stadtentwässerungsbetriebe Köln, AöR ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Presentation on the website of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure 
3. ↑ Otto Schaaf confirms press release of the newspaper for communal economy from July 16, 2015
4. ↑ Otto Schaaf confirmed as President of DWA / Five other board members re-elected Press release of the German Association Forum from October 1, 2014
5. ↑ Society for the Promotion of Abwassertechnik e. V.
6. ↑ GreenTech Awards
7. ↑ DWA President Otto Schaaf appointed ÖWAV honorary member GFA-News from July 3, 2014