Thomas Strothotte

Thomas Strothotte (born October 23, 1959 in Regina , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian computer scientist . He is President of the Kühne Logistics University in Hamburg .

Thomas Strothotte

Career in academic operations

Strothotte comes from a German family. He studied physics and computer science at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver , where he graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science and in 1981 with a Master of Science . From 1981 to 1982 he worked as a doctoral student at the University of Stuttgart , from 1982 to 1983 at McGill University Montreal , Québec and from 1983 to 1984 in Ontario at the University of Waterloo . He then received his PhD from McGill University with a dissertation on Temporal Constructs for an Algorithmic Programming Language . He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at INRIA ( Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique ) Rocquencourt near Paris , but from 1985 to 1989 he worked as a research assistant in the Dialog Systems Department of the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart, where he qualified as a professor in 1989 His research fields include the relationship between images and language and text, the abstraction processes in computer graphics, and graphics in human-computer interaction.

Then he was a visiting scientist in Heidelberg at the IBM Scientific Center. A year later, in 1990, he was appointed professor for interactive systems at the Free University of Berlin .

In 1993 he accepted a professorship for computer graphics and interactive systems at Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg . From 1994 to 1996 he was also dean of his faculty there , from 1996 to 1998 prorector for planning and budget. From July to September 1998 he held the post of provisional rector of this university, succeeding Harald Böttger . He handed over the office of rector to his successor Klaus Erich Pollmann .

Strothotte was also in charge of the initiation of the diploma course in Computational Visualistics at the University of Magdeburg, which became an example for courses at other universities. From March 2001 to September 2002 he also headed the IT office of the state government and the state chancellery of Saxony-Anhalt .

In 2004 he graduated from the Columbia University in New York City and the London Business School the Master of Business Administration (MBA).

Between 2006 and 2008 Strothotte was the rector of the University of Rostock . In a concept known as “Profile Lines”, he aimed to focus teaching and research activities on interdisciplinary areas of focus. However, the associated reduction measures were particularly controversial in the areas affected.

After it became known that Strothotte had applied for the presidential post of the University of Regensburg , he resigned as Rector of the University of Rostock on December 31, 2008 at the urging of the Senate. On April 1, 2009, Strothotte took up his post as President of the University of Regensburg, which he held until March 2013.

Since August 1, 2013, Strothotte has been President of the Kühne Logistics University , a private university in Hamburg.

Volunteering

As chairman of a non-profit supporting association, Thomas Strothotte founded the Pierre Trudeau International Elementary School (2000) and the Pierre Trudeau International High School (2004) in Magdeburg on a voluntary basis .

Arabic as a compulsory language in German schools

In the 6/2016 edition of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , which appeared at the beginning of February 2016, Strothotte suggested in a guest article that Arabic be introduced as a regular subject in German schools . This enables access to the Arab world. Strothotte emphasized that this recognized that Germany was a country of immigration with a multilingual society. The announcement of the publication already met with a great response on the Internet, apart from the mere replication of the press release, mainly in the form of headwinds from party circles of the CDU, the Greens and the SPD. Jenovan Krishnan , member of the CDU federal executive committee and chairman of the Christian Democratic Students' Ring , called the proposal a “completely wrong signal” that would not promote integration but hinder it. Also Özcan Mutlu , education expert of Alliance 90 / The Greens in the Bundestag, classified the approach of an integration as harmful. The Social Democratic education expert in the Bundestag Ernst Dieter Rossmann called it misleading, it leads to more problems than it would solve.

Jürgen Kaube commented on Strothotte's suggestion in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as "submitting the mind to talking freely".

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Strothotte in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry in the catalog of the rectors of the University of Rostock

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kühne Logistics University named Professor Thomas Strothotte as new president. (HTTPS) (No longer available online.) The-klu.org, August 8, 2013, archived from the original on April 21, 2016 ; accessed on April 21, 2016 (English). 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.  
2. ^ The Rectors of the University of Regensburg ( Memento from September 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Pre-registration of the guest post by Strothotte
4. ^ Paul-Nikolas Hinz: "Equal language of instruction": Education expert calls for Arabic as the school language for German children - compulsory. focus online, February 3, 2016, accessed on February 4, 2016 . 
5. ↑ kha: Immigration: University President demands Arabic as a compulsory subject for all students. Spiegel Online, February 3, 2016, accessed February 4, 2016 . 
6. ↑ epd / KNA / dfe: Expert demands: Arabic should become a compulsory subject in Germany. welt.de, February 3, 2016, accessed on February 4, 2016 . 
7. ↑ mod: University President calls for Arabic as a compulsory subject in German schools. stern.de, February 4, 2016, accessed on February 4, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Dominik Sauter: Outrage over statement: Professor demands Arabic as a compulsory subject. bayernkurier.de, February 4, 2016, accessed on February 4, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Linda Hinz: CDU politician Krishnan: "Arabic as a compulsory subject would be the completely wrong signal" , Focus online, February 3, 2016.
10. ↑ Walter Bau: Arabic as a compulsory subject for pupils? "Stay away from it!" Berliner Morgenpost, February 4, 2016, accessed on February 4, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Jürgen Kaube: Arabic as a compulsory subject - a thousand and one derogations. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 5, 2016, accessed on February 5, 2016 .