History of IMR

• 1962: Foundation of the Institute for Measurement Technology in Mechanical Engineering (in the Ws)
  Employment of Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Mintrope

  • Location: Institute for Cutting Machine Tools and Forming Technology (Prof. Bühler)

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  Rooms:

  • 1 room as an office
  • Allocation of the fine measuring room available there
• 1963: Relocation to Wilhelm-Busch-Straße
  Structure of the teaching for production metrology Staff:

  • Secretary (Edda Francksen)
  • Chief Engineer (Dr.-Ing.Harald Seidenberg)

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  Rooms:

  • 2 rooms as an office
• 1965: Move to the parking garage
  Basic equipment:

  • professor
  • secretary
  • Chief engineer
  • 2 assistants
  • Technician (workshop)
  • Worker (workshop)

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  First occupation of the institute:

  • secretary: Karin Othmer
  • Chief engineer: Dr.-Ing. Harald Seidenberg, since 01.08.1967: Dr.-Ing. Walter Ecker, lazer: Apl. Professor, university lecturer, C3 Professor
  • Scientific assistants: Dipl.-Ing. Wilhelm von der Heide, Dipl.-Ing. Harald Halbig
  • DFG-Jobs: Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Röhrentrop (Beginning of acoustics)
  • Auxiliary assistants: Dirk Rotthaus, Hermann Lücke
• 1969: Expansion of 2 air-conditioned precision measuring rooms in the basement
  Start of research in the fields:

  • Grooved pins (Dipl.-Ing. Wilhelm von der Heide)
  • Surface metrology (Dipl.-Ing. Harald Halbig)
  • Acoustics, process monitoring (Dr.-Ing. Walter Ecker)
  • Heat transfer between surfaces (Dipl.-Ing. Helmut Bley)
  • Cone measurement (Dipl.-Ing. Hermann Lücke)
  • Length measuring probe (Dipl.-Ing. Peter Schmehmann)
  • Tactile diamonds, surface measurement (Dipl.-Ing. Horst Bodschwinna)
  • Optical surface measurement (Dipl.-Ing. Ulrich-Wilhelm Schulze)
  • Measuring of pipes (Dipl.-Ing. Helmut Brandt)

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  Structure:

  • Sound, vibration and electrical measurement technology (Dipl.-Ing. Dirk Rotthaus)
  • Holography(Dipl.-Phys. Horst Kreitlow, Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Welling)
    (Conversion of the approved gauge block interferometer into holographic equipment)
• 1975: Employment Prof. Dr.-Ing. F. Hock als Institutsleiter
  Establishment of the working groups:

  • Optics / Signal Processing (Dr. -Ing. H. Kreitlow)
  • Production metrology (Dr. -Ing. H. Bodschwinna)
  • Sound and vibration measurement technology (Prof. Dr.-Ing.W. Ecker)
• 1992: Takeover of the institute management by Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Alarm clock
• 1996: Employment of Prof. Dr.-Ing. E. Reithmeier as leader