Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinz Osterwinter

Obituary

Steinbeis mourns the loss of an esteemed member of staff. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinz Osterwinter, 55, died last May while hiking in the mountains of South Tyrol. He was co-founder of the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Microelectronics in Göppingen.

Osterwinter enthusiastically embarked on his career as an engineer after earning his degree in electrical engineering at the University of Bochum. Upon receiving his doctorate, he led many projects in research and industry, and was offered a professorship at the University of Applied Sciences in Esslingen in 1990. He soon became actively involved in establishing the university’s Göppingen campus, where he taught for the faculty of Mechatronics and Electrical Engineering until his passing.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinz Osterwinter was not only a devoted teacher and researcher. He was also actively involved in technology transfer: In 1991, he co-founded the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Microelectronics (TZM) together with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen van der List. The TZM supports customers in the field of engineering services for electronics, software, and measurement and test engineering. At the center, Osterwinter was successfully responsible for the departments Assembly and Connection Technologies, Microsystem Technologies, and Circuit Technology. He was a member of both the German chapter of the “ISHM/IMAPS Society” as well as its European umbrella organization, the ELC. Additionally, he served as a part-time lecturer at Steinbeis University Berlin (SHB).

Heinz Osterwinter exemplified reliability and was always ready to help students, colleagues, and customers. He was a man who believed that actions speak louder than words, and thus tirelessly dedicated his concerted efforts to the common good from behind the scenes. His professional skill, dependability, innate ability to impart knowledge, as well as his trustworthy work on the founding of the TZM and the further development of the Steinbeis Network are part of what made Heinz Osterwinter such a highly regarded and greatly valued Steinbeis partner. He will be dearly missed.

Prof. Dr. Michael Auer | Manfred Mattulat
Steinbeis Foundation Board

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