Sigmar Wittig
Sigmar Wittig ( born February 25, 1940 in Nimptsch, Lower Silesia ) is a German researcher and university teacher, former Rector of the University of Karlsruhe (TH) and 2002-2007 Chairman of the Board of the German Aerospace Center (DLR ). He is married and has two children.
Life
Sigmar Wittig studied mechanical engineering at the RWTH Aachen and received his doctorate in 1967.
This was followed by a nine -year stay in the United States, including as Associate Professor at Purdue University, West Lafayette.
In 1976, Sigmar Wittig a professorship at the University of Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ) and took over the management of the Institute for Thermal Turbomachinery.
Sigmar Wittig was in the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (since 1998), called the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and the North Rhine- Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
He is an honorary doctorate from the Technical University Darmstadt, Budapest ( Hungary), Ufa ( Russia), Purdue University ( West Lafayette, USA) and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece).
From 1994 to 2002 he was Rector of the University Karlsruh. He was Chairman of the DLR from March 2002 to February 2007. After delivery of CEO on 1 March 2007, he is professor emeritus again at the Institute for Thermal Turbomachinery at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Sigmar Wittig is a member of various national and international supervisory bodies, advisory councils and committees as well as head of the German delegation to the ESA Council and Chairman of the Council of the European Space Agency ( ESA).
Prizes and awards
Wittig was awarded the Karl Heinz Beckurts price of the Helmholtz Association, the Heisenberg Medal of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the R. Tom Sawyer Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class of the Federal Republic of Germany. Since 2006 Professor Sigmar Wittig has been awarded the L' Ordre national de la Légion d' Honneur ( Legion of Honor ). In 2013 he received the Aircraft Engine Technology Award.