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Professional Career

1965 – 1969	Studies at the Technical University of Munich
1971 – 1972	Dealer's office Bavaria with state examination
1973 – 1982	Head of Department at Landshut Road Construction Authority
1983 – 1985	Highway Directorate North Bavaria Nuremberg Planning reference for the new construction of the A 7 Autobahn Würzburg - Ulm
1985 – 1987	Highway Directorate North Bavaria Area manager for entertainment and operations
1987 – 1991	Highway Directorate South Bavaria Head of the road traffic authority and responsible for traffic engineering - Development of a road surface management with the focus on grip measurements and their assessment for traffic safety
1991	Promotion at the University of Munich-Neubiberg: "Stochastic and periodic bumps on roads"
1991 – 1995	Planning Director at the motorway authority of Southern Bavaria. Responsible for the construction of the A 96 Munich - Kempten and the B 2 new Munich - Garmisch with tunnel Farchant
1994	Habilitation at the University of Munich-Neubiberg: "Harmonization between trafficability status and road standard"
1995	Speaker at the Ministry of the Interior in Munich
10/1995	Head of Department of Roads, Earth and Tunnel Construction and Director of the Institute of Highway Engineering, RWTH Aachen University
Since 2010	Guest Professor at Southeast University Nanjing / China

 

Collaboration in research committees, trade associations and associations

Collaboration in Research Committees, Professional Associations and Federations

• PIARC Technical Committee (T.C.) 4.2
• Member of the German delegation of the DACH organization
• Delegate of the Research Society for Road and Traffic Research (FGSV) in the Scientific Council of the Working Group of Industrial Research Associations "Otto von Guericke" e.V. (AiF)
• Head of the working group "Karolingisches Aachen"
• Member of the program committee VDI

Research Company for Road and Transport (FGSV)

• Working Committee 2.1 "Motorways (Member)
• Steering Committee 3.0 "Traffic management and traffic safety" (Member)
• Working Group 3.5.4 "Securing Workstations" (Member)
• Working Committee 3.8 "Equipment and operation of road tunnels" (Member)
• Working Committee 3.9 "Accident Investigations, Safety Measures" (Head)
• Steering Committee 4.0 "Vehicle and Roadway" (Member)
• Working Committee 4.3 "Surface Properties" (ladder)
• Working group 4.3.2 "Flatness" (guest)
• Working group 4.3.3 "Roughness" (leader)
• Working Committee 4.8 "Dimensioning & standardization of traffic area attachments" (Member)

 

Additional Activities

• Expert for the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe
• Expert for land courts
• Expert for road and traffic engineering issues
• Head of Building Materials Testing Center certified according to "RAP-Stra"

 

Working group "Karolingisches Aachen"

Additional Information

Past Presentations

	Speakers	Topic
2018	Prof. Dr. Florian Hartmann Dipl.-Ing. Peter Schneider	Between curiosity, progress and blasphemy - On dealing with ancient knowledge at the Carolingian court in Aachen Castles, palaces, inns and cities as protection and supply of travelers on the coronation or army road from Sinzig / Rhine to Aachen
2017	Priv.-Doz. Dr. Sebastian Ristow	The bronzes of Aachen Cathedral: recent scientific and archaeological researches
2016	Prof. Dr. phil. Klaus Freitag	News about the history of the Roman surrounding countryside of Aachen
2015	Prof. Dr. phil. Frank Pohle	Researched, excavated and interpreted - 200 years of research history of the Carolingian Pfalz Aachen
2015	Univ.-Prof. em. Dr. phil. D. Lohrman	Alcuin and Karl the Great before 781
2015	Prof. Dr. phil. Wolfgang Kuhoff	From Constantine to Karl - late antiquity rule tradition in the Franconian-Roman empire
2014	Bernd Remmler	Searching for clues in France: the vanished palaces of Karl the Great
2013	Priv.-Doz. Dr. Sebastian Ristow	News on the evaluation of archaeological excavations from the last 120 years in the inner area of the Aachen Palatinate
2012	Prof. Dr. Wilfired Hartmann (Tübingen) Prof. Dr. Ralph-Johannes Lilie	Karl the Great and Byzantium: proximity and distance There can only be one. Byzantium and the emperorship of Karl the Great
2011	Prof. em. Dr.rer.nat. W. Oberschelp	Karl the Great and the sky over Aachen - significance of celestial observations in the Middle Ages
2011	Caspar Ehlers, PD Dr.	The function of Aachen for the kingship of Karl the Great in comparison with other significant suburbs of the empire