Wolfram Funk

Wolfram Funk (born August 5, 1938 in Breslau ) is a German mechanical engineer . He was a professor at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg and founder of the "Tank Technology Colloquium".

Life

Funk was born in what was then the Silesian capital, Wroclaw. He studied mechanical engineering ( graduate engineer ) and was awarded a Dr.-Ing. In 1968 at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt with the dissertation The Influence of Fretting Corrosion on the Durability of Composed Machine Elements . PhD.

He then worked in private industry from 1968 to 1975. From 1975 to 2003 he held the full professorship for machine elements and gear technology in the mechanical engineering department at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg and was head of the institute for construction and manufacturing technology there. From 1978 to 1983 he was Vice President of the Federal Armed Forces University and from 1986 to 1987 and 1997 spokesman for the mechanical engineering department. In 1978 he founded the "Panzertechnische Kolloquium" (PTK), which in 2012 was held for the 36th time at the university.

Funk was President of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences, today's Academy of Sciences in Hamburg (senior member) and chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for the award of the Werner Hahlweg Prize . He is a member of the board of trustees of the Carl Cranz Society and a member of the executive committee of the German Society for Defense Technology .

In 2013, the Wolfram Funk Prize, endowed with 2,000 euros, was awarded for the first time for outstanding academic performance.

Awards

Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr
Fritz Kesselring Medal of Honor from the VDI
University medal from the Helmut Schmidt University

Fonts (selection)

Traction drive. Basics, structure, function (= construction books , volume 39). Springer, Berlin a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-540-55891-8 .

literature

Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Volume 1: A-G . 20th edition (2005/06), KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-598-23629-7 , p. 918.

Web links

Literature by and about Wolfram Funk in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfram Funk ( Memento from May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Academy of Sciences in Hamburg, accessed on May 28, 2014.
↑ Rolf Wirtgen : Awarding of the Werner Hahlweg Prize 2004 for Military History and Defense Sciences ( Memento from May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), in: Zeitschrift für Heereskunde , January / March 2005.
^ University medal for Wolfram Funk ( Memento from May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), VDI, June 6, 2012.
↑ https://idw-online.de/en/news556456
↑ Katrin Krautwurm, Werner Tannhof: 40 years HSBwH / UniBwH / HSU: The University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg in the mirror of the times ( Memento from May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), HSU Hamburg.
^ Press releases No. 11/2012, HSU Hamburg.

personal data
SURNAME	Funk, Wolfram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mechanical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 5, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw

[1] Wolfram Funk ( Memento from May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Academy of Sciences in Hamburg, accessed on May 28, 2014.

[2] Rolf Wirtgen : Awarding of the Werner Hahlweg Prize 2004 for Military History and Defense Sciences ( Memento from May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), in: Zeitschrift für Heereskunde , January / March 2005.

[3] University medal for Wolfram Funk ( Memento from May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), VDI, June 6, 2012.

[4] ttps://idw-online.de/en/news556456

[5] Katrin Krautwurm, Werner Tannhof: 40 years HSBwH / UniBwH / HSU: The University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg in the mirror of the times ( Memento from May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), HSU Hamburg.

[6] Press releases No. 11/2012, HSU Hamburg.