Rudolf Wienecke

Rudolf Wienecke (born May 5, 1925 in Burgsteinfurt , † May 17, 2011 in Munich ) was a German physicist . He was u. a. Director of the Institute for Plasma Research at the University of Stuttgart and President of the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich .

Life

Wienecke studied physics at the University of Breslau and the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. In 1952 he was promoted to Dr. rer. nat. PhD. He then worked at the Erlangen nuclear research laboratory. He completed his habilitation in 1957 at the University of Kiel .

In 1960 he became a scientific member of the Max Planck Society . In 1961 he took over a lectureship and in 1964 an extraordinary professorship at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He was a co-founder of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching and worked briefly at Stanford University .

In 1969 he became a full professor at the University of Stuttgart and set up the Institute for Plasma Research (IPF) there. In 1973 he became scientific director of the MPI in Garching. In 1982 he became President of the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich-Neubiberg. In 1987 he returned to Stuttgart. In 1990 he retired.

Furthermore, he was u. a. Member of the advisory body of the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM).

Wienecke was considered a pioneer of fusion research.

Awards

• 1982: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1986: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• Bavarian Order of Merit

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Wienecke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Search for Rudolf Wienecke in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Uwe Schumacher: In memoriam: Rudolf Wienecke , in: Uni-Kurier, No. 108.
2. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online (2014)
3. ↑ Isabella Milch: Arnulf Schlüter and Rudolf Wienecke - Pioneers of Fusion Research , in: IPP 16/22, July 2012.