Tasillo Roman

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Tasillo Römisch with Sigmund Jähn and Waleri Bykowski in the cosmonaut center "Sigmund Jähn" in Chemnitz in 2004
Roman in a children's university lecture at Mittweida University
Construction of the Mars rover "Sojourner" model (see Mars Pathfinder and Mars Rover )

Tasillo Roman (* 8. April 1954 in Schkeuditz ) is a German space - expert , museum director and curator .

Live and act

Training and professional activity until 1990

After graduating from the children's and youth sports school in Leipzig in 1972 and the injury-related end of competitive sports (athletics) in 1973, Roman studied economics at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig until 1977 . A doctorate started in 1989 was canceled because of the " turning point ".

From 1977 to 1980 Römisch was a teacher and scientific assistant at the engineering college in Mittweida and then until 1991 department head and deputy director for quality assurance in the VEB Textima- und Spezialdraht Mittweida .

Part-time interest in space travel and entrepreneurial activity from 1990

"Tasillo Römisch discovered his love for space travel in 1969 when he landed on the moon." As a 15-year-old, Römisch became a member of the German Astronautical Society , later the Society for Space Research and Space Travel (GWR) , and in 1973 co-founded the GDR's first interest group on extraterrestrial beings and took participated in the congress of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) in Baku (then USSR ).

In 1974 Römisch began to give lectures on space travel as part of the GDR Urania Society and “... first collected ... postage stamps, newspaper articles, slides and photos, and later also original space travel objects. To date {2016} 97,000 different copies have accumulated. Tasillo Römisch is in the Guinness Book of Records several times with his collection. "

In 1990, Römisch was head of the GWR stand during the IAF congress in Dresden and registered the space service business (model making and mail order) . In 1992 he opened the company's own space museum in Mittweida .

"In addition to his museum, the space-loving businessman, with his worldwide only private astronaut agency, arranges space travelers for lectures, procures historical images from his archive on request and is a recognized expert in the field of space memorabilia ..."

At the Mittweida University of Applied Sciences , Römisch teaches the history of space travel as an external lecturer as part of the general study program .

In 2019, Römisch in Peenemünde designed an exhibition for the first manned moon landing on the occasion of the 50th anniversary.

literature

  • Entry in Huebner's Who is Who ; Who is Who in the Federal Republic of Germany. Founded by Ralph Huebner. Supplement, 11th edition, 2004, p. 2920

Web links

Footnotes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c "There are only people up there, not nations" @ Zukunftsstadt-mittweida.de, accessed November 7, 2019
  2. ↑ History of space hs-mittweida.de @, accessed November 7, 2019
  3. ↑ Apollo mission. Peenemünde recalls the first manned moon landing @ nordkurier.de, May 22, 2019, accessed November 7, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Roman, Tasillo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roman, Tasillo H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German space historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Schkeuditz