Peter Böhme (engineer)

Peter Böhme (born June 10, 1936 in Freiberg , Saxony ) is a German engineer and former university professor .

Life

Peter Böhme comes from an entrepreneurial family from Großhartmannsdorf in the Ore Mountains. From 1950 to 1954 he attended grammar school in Freiberg. As the son of an entrepreneur, he was initially unable to study in the GDR, so he took up an apprenticeship as a builder and cabinet maker to bridge the gap , which he was able to finish early in 1956 with a skilled worker qualification. In the same year he was then enrolled at the Technical University of Dresden (later TU). At the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, he studied wood and fiber materials technology. In 1961 he completed his studies with a diploma and took up a job at the Research Institute for Wood Technology in Dresden , with the firm intention of later being able to take over his parents' business. The complete expropriation of private industry under Honecker in 1972 prevented him from achieving this goal .

In 1966, Böhme was awarded a Dr.-Ing. PhD ; In 1969 he qualified as a Dr.-Ing. habil. 1977 Böhme received the " National Prize of the GDR III. Class for science and technology ”in the collective. In 1981 he was granted the Facultas Docendi . After completing his habilitation, Böhme took on extensive teaching assignments at the TU Dresden and TH Karl-Marx-Stadt (today TU Chemnitz). From 1970 to 1989 he headed the Central Technical Committee “Decorative Foil” at the Chamber of Technology (KdT).

In 1985 Böhme was appointed honorary lecturer for the finishing of wood and fiber materials at the TU Dresden. From 1984 he was director for material development and application at the Institute for Wood Technology. In 1989 he moved to his old home and re-privatized his parents' business, which had been expropriated under Honecker, without giving up the teaching he had been doing for decades. In 1991 Böhme founded one of the first Lions clubs in the new federal states with like-minded people in Dresden and was elected its founding president. In 1995 the Technical University of Dresden awarded him the title of private lecturer . In 1996 he was appointed honorary professor at the Eberswalde University of Applied Sciences . After his departure from active teaching in 2001, the university management acc. Section 52 (2) BbgHG decided that he may continue to use the title of "honorary professor" even after his approval.

During the GDR era, he had been a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) since 1954 . Böhme has three children. He lives with his wife in his second marriage in Dresden.

Works

Böhme published 85 scientific papers, wrote several specialist books and owned over 150 patents in the GDR.

Reference books

• Industrial surface treatment of panel-shaped materials made of wood . Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 1980. Licensed edition for the former Soviet Union, Moscow, 1982.
• Industrial surface treatment of molded parts made of wood . DRW-Verlag Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-87181-334-6 .
• Decorative foils . Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 2nd revised edition 1988, ISBN 3-343-00400-6 .

Autobiographical

• The heather mill. The ups and downs of a Saxon entrepreneurial dynasty in the 20th century . Self-published, 2002.
• Wood and secret. Childhood memories . Self-published in 2003.
• Asbestos alert. An incredible story . Self-published, 2007.
• My scientific career as a recorder . Self-published, 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see also "Kürschner", Deutscher Schehrtenkalender, 22nd edition