Ronald Dingeldey

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Ronald Dingeldey (born April 15, 1930 in Alsbach ; † September 16, 2016 there ) was the last President of the Central Telecommunications Office in Darmstadt from 1973 .

Life

Ronald Dingeldey was the son of the telecommunications officer Eduard Dingeldey (1902–1993) and the forester's daughter Lysia nee. Bonin (1905-1988).

After studying electrical engineering from 1950 to 1955 at the TH Darmstadt , Dingeldey started as a postal trainee at the Deutsche Bundespost. He was appointed post assessor in 1957, and in the same year he moved to the Central Telecommunications Office (FTZ). There he initially worked in the field of traveling wave tube research. A scholarship at the Physics Institute of the University of Hull followed from 1959 to 1960. In 1961 he became a consultant for satellite communication at the FTZ, and in 1964 he switched to the same function in the Federal Post Office . Four years later he became the head of the telephone exchange technology unit in the ministry. He was appointed Ministerial Councilor in 1969.

He was appointed President of the Central Telecommunications Office on February 1, 1973. He held this office until March 1, 1991. During his last year in office, he worked in Bonn from February 1990, and from May to October 30, 1990 in the newly created position of "Board Representative for the Cooperation and Merger of Deutsche Bundespost Telekom and Deutsche Post of the GDR ". From March 1991 until his retirement in April 1995 he worked as the head of the "Telephone Service" division at the TELEKOM General Directorate in Bonn.

Awards

For his many services to the further development of telecommunications - among other things, he played a key role in the expansion of satellite communications - he was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on December 2, 1986 .

Works

  • "The growing together of the international telecommunications networks under the influence of technical developments" ; in ZPF 1979, No. 7, pp. 27-30
  • »Telecommunications Central Office Darmstadt; Origin, organization, tasks « ; Archive for the Post and Telecommunications System, No. 3/1974

literature

  • "The Presidents of the FTZ" ; P. 29. in: 40 years of FTZ and PTZ in Darmstadt; Ed .: Society for German Postal History eV; Archive for German Postal History, Issue 1/1989; ISSN  0003-8989

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice
  2. Erika Hörr (Ed.): Die Dingeldein aus dem Odenwald, edited on the basis of the collection of material by Gunnar Kohl, Höchst / Odenwald 2005, p. 438 u. 478
  3. Press Release No. 27/91; Deutsche Bundespost Telekom, Bonn, March 1, 1991
  4. 6000 new colleagues and no president - Unrest spreads at the FTZ: Will the Darmstadt office be relocated to Berlin? by Klaus Honold, Darmstädter Echo , Friday, November 16, 1990, p. 9
  5. Ronald Dingeldey takes over the newly created position of the board representative for the cooperation of the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom and the Deutsche Post of the GDR. He reports directly to the Telekom board of directors  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Computerwoche on May 18, 1990@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.computerwoche.de  
  6. ^ The way to the unification of the two German telecom companies ; in: telekom praxis , issue 2/1991, p. 14
  7. “A pilot disembarks” - FTZ in Darmstadt loses Ronald Dingeldey as president ; (br) in Darmstädter Echo of March 2, 1991, p. 18
  8. move to Telekom in Bonn ; (spi.) in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 7, 1991, p. 45