Uwe Rabenhorst
Uwe Rabenhorst (born October 12, 1933 in Berlin ; † December 2018 ) was a German engineer , university professor and rector.
After graduating from high school, Rabenhorst completed an apprenticeship as a radio mechanic from 1951 to 1954. He then worked as a mechanic and training instructor in an industrial company and at the same time took up a distance learning course in electrical engineering at the Technical University of Dresden . From 1956 to 1962 he studied communications engineering at the Technical University of Berlin . He completed his studies as a graduate engineer. He then worked as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Mechanics at the TU Berlin.
In 1967 he began his teaching career at the Deutsche Bundespost , where he represented the subject areas of technical mechanics and programming of digital computers at the former engineering academy in Berlin-Tempelhof. In 1972 the council elected Rabenhorst, who had meanwhile been appointed Chief Postal Director, to succeed Hans Krause-Dietering as Rector of the University of Applied Sciences of the Deutsche Bundespost Berlin .
In February 1987, on the occasion of the handover of the rector's office to his successor Helmut Schmidt , Uwe Rabenhorst was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.
From November 1990 to 1997 he was the founding rector of the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences of the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom, today's University of Telecommunications in Leipzig .
literature
- Hans Joachim Wefeld : Engineers from Berlin. 300 years of technical education . 1988, p. 509.
Individual evidence
- ^ Minutes of the 33rd meeting of the Academic Senate on January 8, 2019. Senate, University of Telecommunications Leipzig , January 10, 2019, accessed on June 24, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rabenhorst, Uwe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer, university professor and rector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2018 |