Walter Pelka

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Walter Pelka (* 1953 in Düsseldorf ) is a German civil engineer and was President of HafenCity University Hamburg from October 2010 to June 2019 .

Life

Walter Pelka studied civil engineering at RWTH Aachen University and then did a research stay at the University of California in Berkeley . In 1983 he received his doctorate back in Aachen and in the following years until 1986 he headed the research area “Groundwater” at the RWTH. In 1986 he moved to the consulting engineering company Lahmeyer International in Frankfurt, where he set up the new environmental protection and environmental technology division. In 1999 Pelka took over the management of the classification, testing and certification company Bureau Veritas SA in Hamburg for the subsidiaries in Germany and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the technical areas of construction, industry, transport and logistics, certification, shipping, international trade, and air - and space travel. In 2006, Pelka moved to DEKRA Industrial GmbH as Managing Director , before being appointed President of HafenCity University in autumn 2010.

Pelka is also the managing partner of H2Yacht GmbH , which manufactures boats with fuel cells .

Walter Pelka is married and has two children. He lives with his family in Hamburg.

Awards

  • 1983: Borchers research badge from RWTH Aachen University for a dissertation with distinction

Fonts

  • Mathematical-numerical treatment of unsteady groundwater movements in large catchment areas , Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Management, Aachen 1980
  • Two-well storage systems for heat storage in aquifers close to the surface , Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Management, Aachen 1981
  • with Dietrich Schröder: Variation method and method of weighted residuals for the calculation of steady flow processes in branched and meshed pipeline systems , Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Management, Aachen 1984

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU): Prof. Dr. Jörg Müller-Lietzkow | Economy and digitization. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Dr.-Ing. Walter Pelka is the new President of HafenCity University Hamburg , in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft from September 7, 2010, accessed on September 13, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Pelka, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and university president
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf