Roland Arnold

Roland Josef Arnold (born October 31, 1965 in Pfronstetten- Aichelau) is a German entrepreneur, founder and managing director of Paravan GmbH in Pfronstetten-Aichelau, a company for handicapped-accessible vehicle equipment and developer of the drive-by-wire system Space Drive .

Life

Roland Arnold grew up in simpler circumstances as the son of a farmer in Aichelau ( Swabian Alb ). When Arnold was five years old, his father died in a tractor fire.

Arnold trained as a car mechanic and in 1989 founded a tire store, the Arnold tire service, on his parents' farm, which was taken over by his eldest brother. Body construction was also added later. With his brother, Arnold drove combine harvesters as so-called contract thresher in the new federal states in the 1990s .

While driving home, he helped a woman at a motorway service station to heave her paraplegic husband into the car. According to Arnold, this experience led him to look for ways to make it easier for disabled people to use vehicles or to enable them at all.

Roland Arnold is with Martina Arnold, geb. Schmid married. The two have two sons. His wife and the older son also work for Paravan GmbH.

Act

Disabled mobility

Arnold dealt with the development of a handicapped accessible vehicle in which a wheelchair could be driven directly in front of the steering wheel or on the passenger seat. In 1998 the first vehicle based on a Chrysler Voyager was presented. The vehicle concept included a lowering of the vehicle interior floor from the A-pillar to the C-pillar in order to increase the interior height of the vehicle, as well as the integration of an electrically extendable underfloor ramp in the vehicle floor. In addition, the vehicle was equipped with a pneumatic vehicle lowering system in order to keep the entry angle of the ramp for the wheelchair as small as possible. In 2008 Arnold presented an electric wheelchair specially developed for driving. With these developments, Arnold helped that severely multiply disabled people and people with progressive illnesses own a vehicle can control.

Space Drive

At the beginning of the new millennium, Arnold began developing a drive-by-wire system. With Space Drive , Arnold developed a vehicle operating system on the technological basis of drive-by-wire or X-by-wire or steer-by-wire with road traffic approval . Space Drive 2 followed in 2013 , a fail-safe, digital control system for use in safety-related automotive applications.

Social Commitment

In August 2010, Roland Arnold and his wife Martina founded the Roland and Martina Arnold Paravan Foundation , which supports the needs of disabled children and families.

Awards (excerpt)

1998: 1st prize in the innovation competition of the Reutlingen Chamber of Crafts and the Reutlingen District Savings Bank

2003: VR innovation prize for innovative technologies, high product quality and customer-oriented thinking in the field of vehicle conversions for the disabled

2004: 1st international award, innovation prize at the Autonomic trade fair in Paris

2005: German Craft Prize

2006: Awarded the “TOP 100” seal of approval .

2007: 1st Prize Winner - Innovation Prize for the Chamber of Crafts in Reutlingen. Presented by Joachim Möhrle, President of the Chamber of Crafts, and Eugen Schäufele, Chairman of the Board of KSK Reutlingen

2008: Recognition of the innovation award from the state of Baden-Württemberg

2008: First winner of the Bavarian State Prize

2008: First winner of the CyberOne Hightech Award

2009: German Foreign Trade Prize

2009: Parvan becomes a Selected Landmark in the Land of Ideas

2010: Encouraging nation

2010: Business Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg

2010: 1st winner of the German Business Innovation Prize

2011: Grand Prize for Medium-Sized Enterprises , "OSCAR winner" and 1st prize winner

2011: 1st winner of the German Business Innovation Prize

2011: 1st prize winner of the Reutlingen Chamber of Commerce Innovation Prize

2012: 1st place at the German Entrepreneur Award , awarded by the Harvard Club of Germany in the Frankfurt Opera Tower.

2013: Premier finalist in the national competition Grand Prize for SMEs

2013: Gold medal "Ruban d 'Honneur" at the European Business Award

2014: 1st prize winner of the German Service Innovation Award

2015: Award for Research and Applied Engineering , First Prize Winner for Research and Applied Engineering

Web links

www.paravan.de

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Roland Arnold builds vehicles for the handicapped in a village with a population of 270 on the Swabian Alb. Retrieved May 21, 2019 .
↑ SDZ Druck und Medien GmbH: Car companies make a pilgrimage to the Alb. October 27, 2018, accessed September 9, 2019 .
^ ^A ^b Marco Lauer: Arnold's sense of autonomy - brand eins online. Brand one , accessed on May 21, 2019 .
↑ Heinz Thumm: From tire dealer to global entrepreneur. In: Schwäbische Zeitung . Retrieved May 21, 2019 .
↑ Wheelchairs and cars for the disabled - Paravan. Retrieved May 21, 2019 .
↑ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Car: Car companies make a pilgrimage to the Alb. October 27, 2018, accessed May 21, 2019 .
^ State show Baden-Württemberg: Roland Arnold is working on autonomous driving. November 3, 2016, accessed May 21, 2019 .
↑ Holger Schweitzer: Disabled-friendly vehicle conversions - barrier-free journey ahead, vehicle operation, No. 012, March 22, 2019
↑ Paravan - with social commitment and evolutionary ideas to become an innovation leader. Retrieved May 21, 2019 .
^ ^A ^b Martina & Roland Arnold Paravan Foundation: Home. October 31, 2016, accessed May 21, 2019 .
↑ Deutsche Handwerkszeitung June 2011
↑ Innovation Prize of the German Economy ( Memento of October 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Nomination of the finalists 2010
↑ § 19 Issue and effectiveness of the operating permit StVZO
↑ Industry Prize 2012
↑ Stefan Menzel: Paravan boss Roland Arnold: The entire automotive industry is interested in a tinkerer from Swabia. In: Handelsblatt . Retrieved May 21, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Arnold, Roland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Arnold, Roland Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German entrepreneur, company founder and managing director
DATE OF BIRTH	October 31, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pfronstetten-Aichelau

[:1-1] Roland Arnold builds vehicles for the handicapped in a village with a population of 270 on the Swabian Alb. Retrieved May 21, 2019 .

[2] SDZ Druck und Medien GmbH: Car companies make a pilgrimage to the Alb. October 27, 2018, accessed September 9, 2019 .

[:2-3] A ^b Marco Lauer: Arnold's sense of autonomy - brand eins online. Brand one , accessed on May 21, 2019 .

[4] Heinz Thumm: From tire dealer to global entrepreneur. In: Schwäbische Zeitung . Retrieved May 21, 2019 .

[5] Wheelchairs and cars for the disabled - Paravan. Retrieved May 21, 2019 .

[6] Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Car: Car companies make a pilgrimage to the Alb. October 27, 2018, accessed May 21, 2019 .

[7] State show Baden-Württemberg: Roland Arnold is working on autonomous driving. November 3, 2016, accessed May 21, 2019 .

[:0-8] Holger Schweitzer: Disabled-friendly vehicle conversions - barrier-free journey ahead, vehicle operation, No. 012, March 22, 2019

[9] Paravan - with social commitment and evolutionary ideas to become an innovation leader. Retrieved May 21, 2019 .

[:3-10] A ^b Martina & Roland Arnold Paravan Foundation: Home. October 31, 2016, accessed May 21, 2019 .

[11] Deutsche Handwerkszeitung June 2011

[12] Innovation Prize of the German Economy ( Memento of October 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Nomination of the finalists 2010

[13] § 19 Issue and effectiveness of the operating permit StVZO

[14] Industry Prize 2012

[15] Stefan Menzel: Paravan boss Roland Arnold: The entire automotive industry is interested in a tinkerer from Swabia. In: Handelsblatt . Retrieved May 21, 2019 .