Volker Aschoff

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Volker Georg Ludwig Aschoff (born June 14, 1907 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † July 14, 1996 in Burgberg (Königsfeld) ) was a German professor of communications engineering and rector of RWTH Aachen University .

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The son of the pathologist Ludwig Aschoff and brother of the biologist Jürgen Aschoff studied electrical engineering at the universities of Bonn, Danzig and Karlsruhe after graduating from high school in 1925 . In Gdansk he became a member of the youth movement reformed student association Deutsche Hochschulgilde Ostmark . From 1933 to 1936 he was taken over at the Technical University of Karlsruhe as assistant to the acoustician and later rector Hermann Backhaus (1885–1956). During this time Aschoff received his diploma (1934) and his doctorate (1936). From 1937 Aschoff initially worked in the research and development department of AEG in Berlin and completed his habilitation in 1942 at the Technical University of Berlin . On February 1, 1941, AEG made Volker Aschoff available to the Gotenhafen Torpedo Research Institute for the development of target-seeking torpedoes . In the summer of 1943 he was given overall management of the technical department of this research facility. From that point on, he was subordinate to 400 scientific and technical employees and around 1,200 wage earners. During the Second World War , Volker Aschoff demanded his use at the front, but this was rejected because of his important work at the torpedo research institute. After the war, he finally worked for the Royal Navy from May to November 1945 . He was then released to Königsfeld in the Black Forest , where he worked as a repair mechanic from December 1945 to the end of May 1946. From June 1, 1946 to 1950, he worked for the Wilhelm Zeh KG company. in Freiburg im Breisgau .

On August 1, 1950, he followed a call to RWTH Aachen University, where he was employed as a full professor for electrical communications engineering at the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. He stayed here until his retirement in 1975 and was elected dean and the senate several times, as well as rector of the RWTH from 1963 to 1965. During this time he made particular contributions to founding the Faculty of Philosophy and Medicine. In addition, Volker Aschoff was a member of the German Science Council and the Rhenish Academy of Sciences , the AEG Supervisory Board, the Management Board of the Telecommunications Society (NTG), today's Information Technology Society and the German Federal Post Office's expert commission . In the meantime, Aschoff took a leave of absence from university service from 1969 to 1972 in order to take on a position as chairman of the board of the German Research and Research Institute for Aerospace (DLR) in Cologne.

Aschoff's special research focused not only on researching classic topics in communications engineering , but also particularly in interdisciplinary areas such as spatial hearing , methodical lecture hall planning, automatic fire alarms and finally, after his retirement, the history of communications engineering. Even into old age he regularly wrote specialist publications, especially on the last-mentioned area of ​​interest.

Aschoff was born in 1936 with Wiebke. Jantzen married and had four children.

Honors

Works (selection)

  • Modern communication and telecommunications technology in rail traffic , Düsseldorf, Droste, 1953
  • About spatial hearing , Cologne, Westdeutscher Verlag, 1964
  • Alma mater utopia , Ratingen near Düsseldorf, Henn, 1967
  • Introduction to communications technology , Berlin, Julius Springer, 1968
  • From the history of communications engineering , Opladen, Westdeutscher Verlag, 1974
  • Paul Schilling von Canstatt and the history of the electromagnetic telegraph , Munich, Oldenbourg, 1977
  • About the Byzantine fire telegraph and Leon, the mathematician , Munich, Oldenbourg, 1980
  • From the history of telegraph codes , Opladen, Westdeutscher Verlag, 1981
  • Three proposals for non-electric telephony from the turn of {18. [eighteenth] on the {19. [nineteenth] century , Munich, Oldenbourg, 1981
  • History of communications engineering , Vol. I (1984), Vol. II (1987), Berlin, Julius Springer
  • The telegraphs in Wilhelm Meister's wandering years , Ulm / Donau, Fabri-Verlag, 1992
  • About the description of the echo by Aristoteles , Ulm / Donau, Fabri-Verlag, 1993

Web links and sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 43, March 9, 1973.
  2. ^ Medal holder Heinrich Henne Medal , accessed on May 14, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Aschoff, Volker
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aschoff, Volker Georg Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor for communications engineering and rector of RWTH Aachen
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1996
Place of death Burgberg (Königsfeld)