Timo Leukefeld

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Timo Leukefeld

Timo Leukefeld (born October 9, 1969 in Annaberg-Buchholz , GDR ) is a German solar technology entrepreneur, lecturer and publicist. He was the founder and managing director of Soli fer Solardach GmbH in Freiberg . He has received several awards for his commitment to promoting the use of solar energy and promoting culture through his entrepreneurial commitment.

Timo Leukefeld

Act

After graduating as a maintenance mechanic with a high school diploma in 1989, Timo Leukefeld studied energetics at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg , with semester stays in Switzerland, Spain and Indonesia and a degree in engineering in 1996, as well as a certified solar consultant at the Berlin Solar School. From 1997 to 2000 he was a research assistant with teaching activity at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg with Gerd Walter , where he managed the solar collector test stand and was involved in researching a new type of solar seawater desalination system with plastic collectors for Israel ; In 1998 Leukefeld founded his first solar specialist company with forty employees in a combination of craft and science, which then became Soli fer Solardach GmbH. By 2019, Leukefeld had issued and supervised more than 105 diploma and study theses. On December 4, 2010, Soli fer Solardach GmbH filed for bankruptcy . In the course of winding up the company, Leukefeld spun off the engineering division in Freiberg on March 20, 2011 as the new company Timo Leukefeld - Energy connects . The Soli fer plant construction division was taken over on April 1, 2011 by Drechsler Haustechnik DHE in Ehrenfriedersdorf. In 2019 he converted his company to Timo Leukefeld GmbH. His company advises politics, business, banks, the housing industry, energy suppliers and building owners on future issues relating to energy and resources. In an interdisciplinary manner, he researches the most diverse models of how people will live in the future.

From 2008 to 2011 Leukefeld was a member of the Saxony Innovation Council of the Saxon State Ministry for Economics and Labor and the Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art. The study commission “Strategies for a future-oriented technology and innovation policy in the Free State of Saxony” of the Saxon state parliament and the board of directors of the Sonnenhaus Institute appointed him a member in 2010. In 2011 Leukefeld was appointed honorary professor for teaching solar thermal energy at the Glauchau State Study Academy and at the University of Cooperative Education. It is the first of its kind in the new federal states. He has also taught at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg since 2012 the subject of networked energy self-sufficient buildings , the only lecture of this kind in Germany.

Publicist and expert appearances

Leukefeld is also referred to by the press as an “energy rebel” because of his unusual approach to developing energy concepts. He was sometimes called "Energy Ambassador" by the federal government and acts as a mediator between research, development and the executing trade. As a protagonist of TV series, especially on “MDR um 4”, Leukefeld traveled around the world, always with the question in his luggage: How will we live in the future. Leukefeld is a regular interview partner for TV and print media, author of guest articles and a columnist, including as a Focus Online and Capital Online expert on energy issues relating to real estate. In 2014, together with other authors, he wrote the guideline “Solar Thermal in Monument Protection” for the Federal Environment Ministry . For the Saxon Energy Agency - SAENA GmbH, he wrote and updated the 30-page brochure “Solar thermal solar energy - warmly recommended for heating” in 2010 and 2012. He was the lead co-author of the book Modern heating with solar thermal energy - Security in the changing energy transition .

He also works as a keynote speaker in the Zukunftsinstitut founded by Matthias Horx . There he is engaged in trend research . By the end of 2019 he had given more than 820 lectures in Germany and worldwide. As a practitioner for energy self-sufficiency and as an energy ambassador for the federal government, his keynotes deal with answers to questions of the future: What alternatives are available to mankind after the collapse of fossil energy civilization? How does this affect the basic human need for “living”?

Networked energy self-sufficiency

His main interest now lies in the development of energy-oriented business models that also work without public funding. Networked energy self-sufficiency is the core of his research and entrepreneurial activity. Since 2009 he has headed the “Energy self-sufficient house” project group at HELMA Eigenheimbau AG. He developed the first affordable energy self-sufficient house in Europe, which was built in 2011 in Lehrte. In 2013 he built two energy self-sufficient houses in Freiberg, Saxony, in which he lives and works. In each of them, 190 sensors measure all energetically relevant data, which are evaluated together with the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. His houses are completely independent and largely supply themselves with heat, electricity and e-mobility from the sun. In 2014, Leukefeld developed the flat-rate rent with energy flat, in which a landlord of an energy self-sufficient apartment building guarantees tenants a flat rent with energy flat for ten years, which already includes all costs for living, heating, electricity and electric car refueling. To implement such projects, he founded the self-sufficiency team with Jürgen Kannemann and Klaus Hennecke in 2019.

Commitment to culture and business

Inspired by the résumé of his grandfather, Rolf Trexler , he studied puppet theater for two semesters at the TU Dresden under Karla Wintermann while running his company . At the same time, he changed his dialogue with customers by replacing technical jargon and anglicisms in communication with generally understandable terms. From 2004 he researched the life of his grandfather and in 2006, together with Nicole Windisch, published the book "Rolf Trexler - Lustigmacher". At the same time he commissioned Karla Wintermann with a puppet theater piece, which took up the subject of his company - the sun as a source of energy - and dispensed with advertising. The premiere of “The Message of Light” was on March 3, 2007 at the Dresden regional fair “Haus”. In 2006 Leukefeld created the campaign “Finding a job with a well-groomed mother tongue”, together with the Volksbank Chemnitz and the German Language Association , under the patronage of the Saxon Minister of Education.

Memberships and committees

Board member and treasurer of the Sonnenhaus Institute eV

Awards

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b tu-freiberg.de
  2. ↑ timoleukefeld.de (PDF).
  3. ↑ freiepresse.de ( Memento from December 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Freiepresse.de
  5. ↑ Freiepresse.de
  6. ↑ timoleukefeld.de
  7. ↑ futureday.network
  8. ↑ welt.de
  9. ↑ archiv.bundesregierung.de
  10. ↑ futureday.network
  11. ↑ mdr.de
  12. ↑ focus.de
  13. ↑ capital.de
  14. ↑ solarwirtschaft.de
  15. ↑ saena.de
  16. ↑ Zukunftsinstitut.de
  17. ↑ Zukunftsinstitut.de
  18. ↑ timoleukefeld.de (PDF).
  19. ↑ energieheld.de
  20. ↑ sonnenhaus-institut.de
  21. ↑ blog.timoleukefeld.de
  22. ↑ dgs.de
  23. ↑ Autarky team - for building energy self-sufficient apartment buildings. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  24. ↑ sonnenhaus-institut.de
  25. ↑ eurosolar.de
  26. ↑ proholz-tirol.at
personal data
SURNAME Leukefeld, Timo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, founder of a company for solar technology
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Annaberg-Buchholz , GDR