Reinhart Lunderstädt

Reinhart Lunderstädt (born January 20, 1939 in Jena ) is a German engineering scientist . From 1974 to 2004 he was Professor of Control Engineering at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg .

Life

Lunderstädt was born the son of a study assessor ; he grew up in the state of Thuringia . In 1950 the family fled from the GDR to the Federal Republic . After graduating from high school in Remscheid in 1959 and doing an industrial internship, he studied aerospace engineering at the Technical University of Stuttgart ( graduate engineer , 1965). He then worked as a development engineer in the Dornier works . In 1967 he became a scientific assistant to Franz Mesch at the Institute for Measurement and Control Engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . In 1970 he received his doctorate ( Dr.-Ing. ).

In 1974 he became professor of control engineering in the mechanical engineering department at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg. In 2004 he retired. In addition to his teaching duties, he was a military trainee in the Bundeswehr and achieved the rank of first lieutenant in the reserve sea . He also took part in exchanges to the USA.

In the 1970s he was the founding senator of the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg . After reunification , he took part in the restructuring of the East German universities.

Awards

• 1989: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1995: Honorary doctorate from the University of Rostock

Fonts (selection)

• With Eberhard Hofer: Numerical methods of optimization . Oldenbourg, Munich a. a. 1975, ISBN 3-486-34621-0 .
• From the life of a university professor. A personal report . Hartmann, Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-937885-52-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhart Lunderstädt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Reinhart Lunderstädt  in the German Digital Library