Siegfried Dinsel

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Siegfried Dinsel in tails with the Federal Cross of Merit on the ribbon

Siegfried Dinsel (born May 27, 1934 in Unterpörlitz , Thuringia ) is a German television technician and tennis official. For forty years he was a volunteer in the Bavarian Tennis Association and in the German Tennis Association .

Life

Siegfried Dinsel attended elementary school in Heldburg in Thuringia from 1939 to 1948 , then he was a boarding school student at the Hennebergisches Gymnasium in Schleusingen and graduated from high school in 1952. Up to his intermediate diploma he studied at the Technical University of Dresden and from 1955 until the main diploma at the Technical University of Munich, the field of radio frequency and communications engineering . He completed his diploma thesis at the Institute for Broadcasting Technology in 1958 with a television technology topic and successfully completed his studies as a qualified engineer. Fifty years later, in 2009, the Technical University of Munich awarded him the Golden Diploma.

Professional background

From 1958 until his retirement in 1998 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Broadcasting Technology, a research and development institute for broadcasters in Germany ( ARD and ZDF ), Austria ( ORF ) and Switzerland ( SRG ). The first focus of his activities were developments to improve analog television. He was actively involved in investigations into the definition and subsequent introduction of the PAL color television standard developed in Germany . As the responsible developer of stereo sound in television , he accompanied international standardization until its introduction in 1982. For this he was awarded the Eduard Rhein Prize, endowed with 20,000 DM, for outstanding media technology innovations.

As chairman and member of various international working groups of the International Telecommunication Union ( ITU) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) , he was responsible for the development and definition of European and worldwide uniform digital television standards . As a project manager, he represented the Federal Republic of Germany and the German broadcasting corporations in the relevant international organizations in the areas of high-definition television (HDTV) and digital terrestrial television ( DVB-T ). The distribution of television signals via cable, as well as the definition of the new digital cable standard DVB-C , the development of modern digital set-top boxes and suitable encryption techniques for pay-TV were other work topics. As part of a development aid project, on behalf of the German broadcasting corporations and the German Foreign Ministry in New Delhi, he supported the Indian television company Doordarshan in setting up satellite television in India. He was head of the ITU specialist group in preparation for the African television planning conference in Nairobi . A number of patents reflect the results of 40 years of research and development.

Voluntary work and association activity

Siegfried Dinsel has been a volunteer in the Bavarian Tennis Association since 1970 and in the German Tennis Association from 1980 . In 1976, long before the home computer and PC era, he developed the first computer-controlled program for creating schedules for the 2000 tennis teams in Bavaria as a sports warden for the Munich tennis district. He also made the DOS- based program available to all other German tennis associations free of charge. Even today, the scheduling of the teams in Bavaria and Germany is based on its program structure from the 1970s. As early as 1983, long before the start of the official internet , he developed the first online results service for Bavarian tennis players on the platform of the internet forerunner Videotext (Btx) . As a senior sportsman for the Bavarian Tennis Association, he was responsible for the age groups women and men 30 and older for many years. In 1987 he was appointed to the Seniors' Commission of the German Tennis Association and was actively involved in the establishment of new senior team competitions in the age groups 30, 35, 60, 65, 70 and 75. As a member and senior representative in the ranking committee, he dedicated himself as an IT specialist for many years to ranking systems and optimized the online recording of results. He was in charge of developing the new, improved and transparent TRP ranking system (tournament round points) for senior citizens, which allows ranking lists to be published quarterly with relatively little manual effort.

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  1. ↑ TUM golden diploma, contact TUM Magazin, 1/2010, pp. 20–22.
  2. ↑ Chairman of the ITU working group IWP 11/5 (Protection Ratios for Television), HDTV Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 7, June 16, 2005 ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hdtvmagazine.com
  3. ↑ Patent, transmission of digital data, especially sound information, in a television channel
  4. ↑ Patent, 16: 9 television broadcast system compatible with conventional 4: 3 television standards
  5. ↑ European patent, method and arrangement for equalizing two data streams
  6. ↑ Sigi Dinsel, SENIOR TENNIS SERVICE, 2009, issue 4, p. 38.
  7. ↑ Bundesanzeiger BAnz, AT June 19, 2001, number 110, pp. 11–885.
  8. ↑ Awarded the Golden Badge of Honor of the Bavarian Tennis Association
  9. ↑ Award of the silver-gilded badge of honor of the German Tennis Association
personal data
SURNAME Dinsel, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television technician and tennis official
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Unterpörlitz , Thuringia