Philipp Hartl

Philipp Hartl (born December 14, 1928 in Viechtach ; † December 7, 2013 ) was a German physicist . From the beginning of the 1980s he researched and taught as a professor at the University of Stuttgart in the navigation department . From 1986 to 1990 he was Vice-Rector for Teaching, and in 1987 he represented Rector Hartmut Zwicker, who died in office .

Before his appointment to the Institute for Flight Navigation - as the successor to Karl Ramsayer , the institute's founder and longstanding director - Hartl held a leading position in industry (aerospace technology). At the Navigation Institute, he saw it as his main task to supplement the development work in the field of dead reckoning with the new methods of satellite positioning (see GPS and GNSS ). Development and research topics were also remote sensing (including for the ERS satellites and using SAR radar), Doppler navigation in space travel, the communications satellite Symphony , as well as simulations and modeling on the Cray-2 supercomputer in aircraft construction .

Hartl was a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (Acatech) as well as the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and since his retirement (approx. 1995) in the thematic networks of health and information technology. His successor as head of the institute is Alfred Kleusberg . In 1996 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class . Of the science prizes he was awarded the Johann Maria Boykow Prize and the Wolfgang Martini plaque.

Fonts (selection)

• To determine the accuracy of reference point-dependent radio location systems (= report from the German Research Institute for Aviation ). United university and specialist bookshops, Cologne 1961 (dissertation, TH Stuttgart, 1961).
• The importance of the Doppler and time of flight measurement for distant space missions (= aerospace. Vol. 73,104). German Research and Experimental Institute for Aerospace, Porz 1973 (habilitation thesis, TU Munich, 1973).
• Telecontrol technology in space travel: telemetry, telecommand, orbit surveying . Springer, Berlin 1977; 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition 1988.

literature

• Alfred Kleusberg, Thomas Ertl: Philipp Hartl (December 14, 1928 - December 7, 2013). In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for 2013. Heidelberg 2014, pp. 201–202 ( online )

Web links

• Philipp Hartl, Karl-Heinz Thiel: Satellite-based positioning and navigation. In: Spectrum of Science . 1996, no.1 (with a short curriculum vitae)