Werner Richter (measurement technician)

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Werner Richter (left) and Peter Neumann at a conference at the Humboldt University in Berlin , 2010

Werner Richter (born April 24, 1931 in Gohla ; † April 15, 2015 in Döbeln ) was a German engineer and professor of measurement technology as well as co-founder of the training of qualified engineers for automation systems in Germany .

Career

Werner Richter was born in 1931 in Gohla, Meißen district in Saxony, the second of four children, his father was a toolmaker. From 1937 to 1945 he attended the elementary school in Rüsseina and then until 1948 the commercial school in Nossen parallel to a commercial apprenticeship. He then worked as a machine accountant in agricultural businesses. From 1950 to 1952 he attended the Workers 'and Farmers' Faculty (ABF) at the TH Dresden and the University of Greifswald , where he obtained his university entrance qualification.

The desire to study aeronautical engineering arose because he was already building kites and flight models as a child and also tried to understand the principle of flight more deeply. He therefore completed his studies at the University of Rostock and the Technical University of Dresden in the subjects of aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. He obtained his degree in engineering in 1958, specializing in aviation equipment. Classified as a working-class child, he had received scholarships and support from all sides, and he felt obliged to the educational opportunities offered by the GDR.

His studies were followed by a scientific position as assistant and senior assistant at the Technical University of Dresden , Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Institute for Telecontrol Technology . Due to the total dissolution of the aviation industry in the GDR in 1961, Richter then dealt with measurement and control technology. Within the same faculty he found close connections to the Institute for Automatic Control (Director: Heinrich Kindler ) and to the Institute for Regulation and Control Engineering Dresden of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, which later became the Technical Cybernetics Dresden department of the Academy of Sciences (department head: Hans-Joachim Pikeperch ).

In 1968 he gained his PhD for Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) With a theme for synchronization in the large-format image telegraphy for distributed newspaper printing. His university teaching activity began in 1969 as a university lecturer for process measurement technology at the TU Dresden, where he acquired his teaching qualification (facultas docendi) for measurement technology in 1971. In 1974 he obtained a doctorate in science (Doctor scientiae technicarum, Dr. sc. Techn.) With a thesis on frequency-analog measurement systems (1990 conversion of "Dr. sc. Techn." To "Dr.-Ing. Habil.").

Acting in higher education and science

In 1974 Richter was appointed full professor of measurement technology at the engineering college in Leipzig, which was awarded the status of Technical University Leipzig (THL) in 1977 . Here he continued the lectures and seminars he began in 1969 in the field of measurement technology / sensor technology for electrical engineers, mechanical engineers and process engineers (mainly in Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz).

The other research and development work by Richter related to sensor technology and its electromagnetic compatibility (patents). Research was carried out specifically on frequency-analog measuring systems, information and measured value transmission, interference, and sensor technology / sensor electronics as well as the use of long-wave infrared (thermal radiation).

Leipzig, Wächterstrasse 13, former building of the THL for the two sections of automation systems and electrical energy systems, today Wiener-Bau : Faculty building of the HTWK

As director of the automation systems section , he played a key role in developing and shaping the training of qualified engineers in the specialization for automation systems, which is unique in the German-speaking world . At the TH Leipzig, in close cooperation with the Electrical Power Systems section (Director: Siegfried Altmann ), the technological profile line Systems of electrical engineering in training and research developed.

In addition, the automation construction specialization was added later under the leadership of Werner Kriesel . In interdisciplinary cooperation with the Building Industry Section and the Building Academy Berlin , the first graduates were bid farewell here at the end of the 1980s. As a member of the electrical engineering advisory board (chairman: Gerhard Linnemann , then rector in Ilmenau) at the Ministry of Higher Education and Technical Schools since 1980, Richter was able to stabilize these two profiles.

A novelty and a peculiarity in the GDR was in the section of the industrial-university complex system automation (IHK) founded in 1980 by Richter . The three industrial companies or combines device and control works Leipzig, chemical plant construction Leipzig-Grimma and Starkstromanlagenbau Leipzig-Halle as well as the TH Leipzig jointly financed the personnel positions and material costs of the IHK, so that the engineers employed here solve problems in the sense of technology transfer at short notice could. This IHK was headed by the associate professor Werner Bennewitz , supported by the Vice-Rector for Natural and Technical Sciences Dietrich Balzer and most recently had 60 permanent positions; it was dissolved in the course of reunification in 1990. The IHK concept at that time was similar in its function and structure to today's third-party funded research in an affiliated institute with transfer tasks from research to application.

Richter mastered a considerable range of tasks including numerous scientific and social functions that he performed:

Through his membership in the "Central Working Group for Control and Regulation Technology " (ZAK chairman: Heinz Töpfer ) at the Research Council in the Ministry of Science and Technology since the early 1980s, he was always informed about current trends in research and development in industry. This enabled him, together with the employees of his section, to also undertake extensive research projects in cooperation with the automation industry, particularly focused on the focus on "pre-run for future automation systems" (Teltow device and controller works).

In the successor to Heinz Töpfer, Richter was chairman of the Scientific and Technical Society for Measurement and Automation Technology (WGMA) in the Berlin Chamber of Technology (President: Dagmar Hülsenberg ). In this capacity he was also responsible for the official representation of the WGMA as the national member organization of the GDR in the IFAC ( International Federation of Automatic Control , representative: Karl Reinisch , TH Ilmenau), in the IMEKO (International Measurement Confederation, representative: Dietrich Hofmann, University of Jena ) and in the IAPR (The International Association for Pattern Recognition, representatives: Klette, Academy of Sciences, ZKI Berlin). Richter himself was also a member of the Credentials and Membership Committee at IMEKO. From 1991 to 1997 he was a member of the advisory board of the VDI / VDE Society for Measurement and Automation Technology (GMA) in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt am Main.

Overall, Richter has won recognition at home and abroad for the automation systems section of the TH Leipzig, which he heads, thanks to its explicit application orientation. He has set up 6 chairs for all main components of automation systems in the section and the workforce to approx. 120 employee positions, numerous PhD positions, 60 personnel positions in the IHK and approx. 500 students expanded. In doing so, he and his employees have created one of the largest university institutions exclusively specializing in automation technology in the German-speaking region. Last but not least, the work of Richter as chairman / co-chairman in national and international symposia as well as congresses at home and abroad also contributed to their reputation. In his special field of measurement technology, he maintained particularly close working contacts in Berlin with Hans Hart and in Chemnitz with Eugen-Georg Woschni and in Munich with Elmar Schrüfer and Hans-Rolf Tränkler .

Richter was a member of the Senate of the Technical University of Leipzig and from 1990 to 1992 its Vice-Rector for Scientific Development. From 1991 to 1993 he was also an expert reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG) in Bonn.

Richter prepared over 80 reports on doctoral theses, over 30 reports on habilitations, almost 50 reports on appointments and reports for business.

He is the author and co-author of 12 textbooks and specialist books (up to 14 editions), 5 book translations from Russian and Czech as well as 45 articles in specialist journals and popular science articles. He has given over 50 lectures at scientific conferences in Germany and abroad. As a co-owner, he is involved in 19 patents.

In collaboration with Manfred Engshuber from Ilmenau, he has dealt with the measurement technology of Alexander von Humboldt in his last years and has compiled the results in a book.

Richter was one of the experts in measurement technology as well as one of the pioneers in the training of qualified engineers for automation systems in Germany. From the academic environment of Richter in Dresden and Leipzig emerged as professors : H. Ehrlich , R. Müller, D. Balzer , W. Kriesel , H.-G. Woschni, W. Bennewitz, K.-P. Schulze , G. Stein , K. Steinbock, G. Gruhn, R. Werthschützky, A. Pretschner, A. Hebestreit, J. Hoffmann, M. Kappert, J. du Puits, H. Richter, M. Sturm, T. Heimbold , K. Kabitzsch , M. Lohöfener , P. Helm.

Working in the free economy

When, after German reunification, the TH Leipzig was gradually closed in a time window from 1992 to 1996, after the University of Technology, Economics and Culture (HTWK) was founded in 1992 , Richter now switched to industry. From 1995 to 1999 he took over the management of a research institute of the British GENOVA Ltd. Here he developed developments for the use of long-wave infrared radiation (thermal radiation), in particular for room heating in air conditioning, for temperature control of the seating area in high rooms (e.g. in churches) and for medical purposes.

From 1997 to 1999 he was also a member of the board of Trapos AG Mittweida and was specifically involved in the development of an electric car as a shuttle for the preferred use in spa facilities, clinics and at trade fairs.

From 2000 he was active as a specialist advisor and expert, mainly in the field of heat effects and the energy efficiency of long-wave infrared in space heating.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • 19 patents registered at home and abroad and used by industry.
  • with PV Nowickij: Quality criteria for measuring devices (including: application of qualimetry). Verlag Technik, Berlin 1978.
  • with Günter Helm; Gerhard Prang (Red.): Textbook of automation technology. 14th edition. Verlag Technik, Berlin 1985.
  • with others: aircraft. In: The Engineer's Expertise. Volume IV, Fachbuch-Verlag, Leipzig 1968.
  • with Felix Noack, Klaus Kaplick and others: aircraft. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1970, DNB 457470224 .
  • with Reinhold Drachsel: Basics of electrical measurement technology. 7th edition. Verlag Technik, Berlin 1983, DNB 830819940 .
  • with Heinz Töpfer : Key technology automation: yesterday – today – tomorrow. In: measure, control, regulate, Berlin. Vol. 32, No. 10, 1989, pp. 434-438.
  • Electrical measurement technology - basics. 3. Edition. VDE-Verlag, Offenbach 1994, ISBN 3-8007-2028-0 .
  • Contribution in: Jörg Hoffmann (Hrsg.): Taschenbuch der Messtechnik. 6th edition. Fachbuchverlag Leipzig in Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-42391-6 .
  • Contribution in: Jörg Hoffmann (Ed.): Handbuch der Messtechnik. 4th edition. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-42736-5 .
  • with Manfred Engshuber: Alexander von Humboldt's measurement technology - instruments, methods, results. epubli Verlag, Berlin 2014, print edition ISBN 978-3-8442-8969-5 .

Web links

literature

  • Change in WGMA chairmanship. In: measure, control, regulate, Berlin. Vol. 26, No. 4, 1983, p. 230.
  • Dietrich Werner, D. Herrmann: msr introduces: Technical University of Leipzig - Automation Systems Section. In: measure, control, regulate, Berlin. Vol. 26, No. 9, 1983, pp. 527-531.
  • Eugen-Georg Woschni : Life in three German states - A Saxon reports. Tauchaer Verlag, Taucha / Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-89772-215-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Kriesel , Hans Rohr, Andreas Koch: History and future of measurement and automation technology. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-18-150047-X , pp. 51-98.
  2. ↑ Kurt J. Reinschke: memory of Heinrich Kindler , first Professor of Control Engineering at the Technical University Dresden. In: Automation technology, Munich. Vol. 58, No. 06, 2010, pp. 345-347.
  3. ↑ L. Starke: From hydraulic controller to process control system. The success story of the Askania works in Berlin and the device and controller works in Teltow. 140 years of industrial history, tradition and future. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8305-1715-3 , pp. 11-46.
  4. ↑ K. Reinisch : Cybernetic Basics and Description of Continuous Systems . Verlag Technik, Berlin 1974 as well as analysis and synthesis of continuous control systems. Verlag Technik, Berlin 1979.
  5. ↑ Hans Hart : measurement accuracy. Verlag Technik, Berlin 1987.
  6. ^ Eugen-Georg Woschni : Life in three German states - A Saxon reports. Tauchaer Verlag, Taucha / Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-89772-215-6 , pp. 60-77.
  7. ^ Elmar Schrüfer : Electrical measurement technology. 1st edition. Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1983.
  8. ↑ Hans-Rolf Tränkler , L. Reindl (Ed.): Sensortechnik. Manual for practice and science. 2nd Edition. Springer Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-29941-4 .
  9. ↑ Werner Richter, Manfred Engshuber: Alexander von Humboldt's measurement - tools, methods, results. epubli Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8442-8969-5 .
  10. ↑ Hans-Otto Dill : Alexander von Humboldt's Metaphysics of the Earth. Its world, thought and discus structures. Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-63170-6 , pp. 7-25.
  11. ↑ Werner Richter, Kurt Schmidt: Energy needs in rooms. Part 1: Radiation calculation for infrared surface heating elements for space heating. Part 2: Use of radiant heat (electromagnetic radiation in the infrared range) to reduce energy consumption. Part 3: Efficiency of energy transfer with infrared panel heaters. Ing.-Büro Kurt Schmidt, Leipzig 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Richter, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and measurement technician
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Gohla
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 2015
Place of death Chub