René Flosdorff

René Flosdorff (born January 22, 1929 - † September 6, 2017 ) was a German electrical engineer and rector of the Aachen University of Applied Sciences .

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After his school days, Flosdorff studied electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University and graduated in August 1954 with the examination to become a qualified engineer . He then went through several positions in the private sector before he was accepted as a building officer at the state engineering school in Aachen in 1961. After this was merged with other institutions to form the Aachen University of Applied Sciences in 1971, Flosdorff was taken on as a lecturer in electrical engineering and appointed professor in 1981.

At the FH Aachen, Flosdorff had been a member of the rectorate since 1984 and was elected deputy rector in 1986 and from 1987 rector of the FH Aachen. He held this position until 1991 and was followed in May 1992, a call of the former rector at the FH Aachen and nunmehrigen rector of the University of Anhalt , Helmut Strehl , where he in the founding committee for the establishment of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the site Köthen participated.

In Aachen, Flosdorff campaigned in particular for the modernization of academic self-administration as well as for an efficient examination system and maintained intensive contacts with various professional associations. He was among others over 50 years as a member and most recently presiding at the engineer friends FH Aachen eV Furthermore, he was over 30 years a member of Executive Committee and Council of the VDE Regio Aachen.

Fonts

• Electrical energy distribution , together with Günther Hilgarth, 9th edition, Teubner, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 978-3-519-36424-5

Web links

• Obituary of the FH Aachen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary by the engineering friends of the FH Aachen
2. ↑ On the death of Prof. Dipl.-Ing. René Flosdorff