Ulrich Jochimsen

Ulrich Jochimsen (born June 28, 1935 in Niebüll , North Frisia , Schleswig ) is a German electrical engineer , entrepreneur and political advisor . At first, the monopolized telecommunications system and the over-regulated telecommunications market in Germany in the 1970s were not ready for its innovative concepts and devices, such as the black box to protect privacy and the first mobile phone . However, his critical publications and his work on behalf of the public have influenced developments in telecommunications , telecommunications and energy supply in Germany. Today he promotes innovative projects in the field of decentralized energy generation .

Life

Ulrich Jochimsen had been a radio amateur since 1950 , and from 1955 to 1958 the youngest radio officer in the merchant navy on long voyages . After one year (1959/60) as an exchange student at the DAAD in Canada , he worked from 1962 to 1968 at the Institute for Experimental Nuclear Physics at the TH and the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center .

From 1966 to 1980 he was self-employed with his company Video Digital Technik in Wiesbaden , which developed techniques and devices for television studios.

From 1970 to 1978 he was an advisor to the Hessian state government and from 1974 to 1975 he was a representative of the state of Hesse in the Federal Commission for the Expansion of the Technical Communication System (KtK) with a planning period up to 2000.

1974 to 1982, as chairman of the Institute for Communication Technology and System Research eV , he prepared an expert opinion for the Federal Monopoly Commission on the monopoly of the Deutsche Bundespost in telecommunications in cooperation with the second chairman, Ernst Eggers .

1991–2007 he was a board member of the German Renewable Energy Association

From 1982, as head of the Energy Dezentral Flensburg Institute , he and Nikolaus Eckardt and Margitta Meinerzhagen wrote a study on the German electricity industry : "The electricity dictatorship: empowered by Hitler - unbroken to this day".

Together with Hermann Scheer , Ulrich Jochimsen was one of the editors of the magazine for new energy law (ZNER), which has been published since 1997.

Since 2001 he has been a member of the Political Education / Global Learning Commission of the German Evangelical Association for Adult Education (DEAE) in Frankfurt am Main.

He is currently a member of the supervisory board of the Flensburg energy cooperative, member of the board of the network decentralized energy use eV Flensburg, board member of the Aqua Terra system institute in Berlin and honorary chairman of the "Friends of the House of Nature in Potsdam eV".

Ulrich Jochimsen's brother is the economist and politician Reimut Jochimsen (1933–1999).

Electricity supply law and energy box

Decentralized combined heat and power plants are referred to as energy boxes, which are suitable for supplying a single household or with a size of around 3–4 megawatts for supplying a small town. An example would be a system that generates inexpensive heat and electricity from a gas connection, whereby the heat is consumed in the house, while excess electricity is fed into the public electricity network, which finances the installation costs. Jochimsen described the beneficial effects of such energy boxes for a decentralized energy industry.

Economic interests and power issues are behind the resistance to decentralized heating and electricity supply for household and small consumption. Jochimsen contributed to the elucidation of such structural relationships in the German energy industry through studies and publications:

• The energy box - an energy-saving, economical and crisis-proof heat and electricity supply for household and small consumption
• The electricity dictatorship. Authorized by Hitler - unbroken to this day
• How the Electricity Feed Act came into being and how renewable energies prevailed in Germany

Preben Maegaard from the Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy describes the influence of Ulrich Jochimsen and his concept of the energy box on the Danish energy industry in Solarzeitalter 3/2006, p. 38

Postal monopoly

In 1978 and 1979 the 50-minute film "Trials of strength: Ulrich Jochimsen, the man who messes with the post" produced by WDR was broadcast in the first program and seen by millions of viewers. After that, the Deutsche Bundespost had to introduce many new services and change its sovereign behavior towards citizens. The free market for telephone devices from July 1990 onwards is a result of global developments that Jochimsen foresaw as early as the 1970s, while the Deutsche Bundespost refused to approve its devices developed according to international standards.

Jochimsen also influenced various plans of the Deutsche Bundespost:

• In 1972 the Federal Post Minister had forbidden the head of the Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft (BfG), Walter Hesselbach, who was also Chairman of the Postal Administration Council, to build the new BfG high-rise on Theaterplatz in Frankfurt. The reason was that the radio link to Gunthersblum might be disrupted. Ulrich Jochimsen found that to secure the radio link and the clearance for the construction of the high-rise building, only two radio link mirrors on the small telecommunications tower at the Frankfurt main station would have to be moved and two cables would have to be reconnected.

• In 1978 the city of Soest in Westphalia filed a lawsuit against the spoiling of its historical cityscape by a planned telecommunications tower and lost it in the first instance. After an intervention by Ulrich Jochimsen, the telecommunications tower was no longer built.

• Until 1979 the German Federal Post Office claimed that long-distance calls over radio links could not be intercepted. In two articles in the news magazine "Stern", Jochimsen's statement was proven that the Federal Post Office's claim was misleading the public.

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (October 7, 2005)
• German Solar Prize 2006

literature

• Ulrich Jochimsen: How the Electricity Feed-In Law (Stromeinspeisungsgesetz) Came to Be Passed by the German Parliament, Enabling Renewable Energies to Establish Their Position in the Market. In: Windpower for the World: The Rise of Modern Wind Energy, Volume 1.Editors = Preben Maegaard, Anna Krenz, Wolfgang Palz. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton 2013. ISBN 978-981-4364-93-5 . English

Web links

• http://www.ulrich-jochimsen.de/

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Homepage Ulrich Jochimsen
2. ↑ Preben Maegaard, Anna Krenz, Wolfgang Palz (ed.): Wind Power for the World . The Rise of Modern Wind Energy. tape 1 . CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton 2013, ISBN 978-981-4364-93-5 , pp. 489 (English).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Nikolaus Eckhardt, Margitta Meinerzhagen, Ulrich Jochimsen: Die Stromdiktatur. Authorized by Hitler - unbroken to this day . Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1985.
4. ↑ http://www.pontepress.de/zner.php Journal for New Energy Law (ZNER)
5. ^ System institute Agua Terra
6. ^ House of Nature in Potsdam
7. ↑ Ulrich Jochimsen, Hans H. Rupp, Eike Schwarz: The energy box, an energy-saving, economical and crisis-proof heat and electricity supply for household and small consumption . Study on behalf of the Hessian Prime Minister. Dorn, Hanover June 1978.
8. ^ Ulrich Jochimsen: How the Electricity Feed-In Law (Stromeinspeisungsgesetz) Came to Be Passed by the German Parliament, Enabling Renewable Energies to Establish Their Position in the Market . In: Preben Maegaard, Anna Krenz, Wolfgang Palz (Eds.): Windpower for the World: The Rise of Modern Wind Energy . tape 1 . CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton 2013, ISBN 978-981-4364-93-5 , pp. 479-485 (English). German translation: [1] (PDF; 218 kB)
9. ↑ How the energy box changed the Danish energy structure. By Preben Maegaard (PDF; 78 kB)
10. ↑ See homepage Ulrich Jochimsen: Professional activities
11. ↑ See Ulrich Jochimsen homepage: Brief curriculum vitae
12. ↑ Website with video of the award
13. ↑ Office of the Federal President
14. ↑ Eurosolar special price for special personal commitment