Heinz Schmidtke

German ergonomist

Heinz Schmidtke

Rector of the Technical University of Munich
In office 1970–1972
Preceded by	Horst von Engerth
Succeeded by	Ulrich Grigull

Personal details
Born	(1925-08-06)6 August 1925 Goslar, Weimar Republic
Died	11 December 2013(2013-12-11) (aged 88)
Nationality	German
Education	Technical University of Braunschweig

Heinz Schmidtke (6 August 1925 – 11 December 2013) was a German ergonomist. Between 1970 and 1972, he was rector of the Technical University of Munich.^[1]

Life

Schmidtke studied psychology and physics at the Technical University of Braunschweig until 1949. He completed his habilitation in 1960.

After working for a year as head of a physical laboratory in the chemical industry, he was granted a visiting professorship at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1957, he became head of the "Psychological Working Group" at the then Max Planck Institute for Occupational Physiology in Dortmund.

In 1962, he was appointed to the newly founded Institute for Occupational Psychology and Occupational Pedagogy at the Technical University of Munich, which later became the Chair of Ergonomics.

References

^ "Laudatio zum 80. Geburtstag von Professor Dr. rer. nat. Heinz Schmidtke" (PDF). Ergonomie aktuell, Lehrstuhl für Ergonomie.

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Presidents of the Technical University of Munich

Directors
(1868–1903)

Karl Maximilian von Bauernfeind (1868–1874, 1880–1889)
Wilhelm von Beetz (1874–1877)
August von Kluckhohn (1877–1880)
Karl Haushofer (1889–1895)
Egbert von Hoyer (1895–1900)
Walther von Dyck (1900–1903)

Rectors
(1903–1976)

Walther von Dyck (1903–1906, 1919–1925)
Friedrich von Thiersch (1906–1908)
Moritz Schröter (1908–1911)
Siegmund Günther (1911–1913)
Heinrich von Schmidt (1913–1915)
Karl Lintner (1915–1917)
Karl Heinrich Hager (1917–1919)
Jonathan Zenneck (1925–1927)
Kaspar Dantscher (1927–1929)
Johann Ossanna (1929–1931)
Richard Schachner (1931–1933)
Anton Schwaiger (1933–1935)
Albert Wolfgang Schmidt (1935–1938)
Lutz Pistor (1938–1945)
Hans Döllgast (1945)
Georg Faber (1945–1946)
Robert Vorhoelzer (1946–1947)
Ludwig Föppl (1947–1948)
Hans Piloty (1948–1951)
August Rucker (1951–1954)
Robert Sauer (1954–1956)
Ernst Schmidt (1956–1958)
Max Kneissl (1958–1960)
Gustav Aufhammer (1960–1962)
Franz Patat (1962–1964)
Heinrich Netz (1964–1965)
Gerd Albers (1965–1968)
Horst von Engerth (1968–1970)
Heinz Schmidtke (1970–1972)
Ulrich Grigull (1972–1976)

Presidents
(since 1976)

Ulrich Grigull (1976–1980)
Wolfgang Wild (1980–1986)
Herbert Kupfer (1986–1987)
Otto Meitinger (1987–1995)
Wolfgang A. Herrmann (1995–2019)
Thomas Hofmann (since 2019)

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