IEEE Germany Section History

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Establishment of the Section

The IEEE Germany Section has been formed on 12th of July 1963, in the same year in which IEEE was ascending from the merger of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE founded in 1884) and the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE, founded in 1912). The IEEE Germany Section covers the area of the Federal Republik of Germany and has currently more than 5600 active members in 2009.

List of Section Chairs

---Lothar Rohde 1963 ---Walter Proebster ---Adolf Schwab ---Dr. Andreas Luxa ---Dr. Axel Richter ---(List will be completed and put into chronological order soon)

Student Branches

---Conferences ---Milestones ---Awards ---XXXXXX

The IEEE Germany Section has some serious competitive equivalents from a number of specialist German engineering societies. IEEE is none the less recognised as a excellent international source of information into Germany.

Chapters

The IEEE Germany Section announces its first chapter formation in the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society in March 2010.

Student Branches

At the moment, IEEE Student Branches have been founded at the following Universities.

• Aachen
• Bochum
• Darmstadt
• Duisburg-Essen
• Esslingen
• Furtwangen
• Hamburg
• Hannover
• Ilmenau
• Kaiserslautern
• Karlsruhe
• Kiel
• Magdeburg
• München
• Passau
• Stuttgart

Section Officers

2009-2010 Chair: Dr.-Ing. Andreas Luxa

IEEE Geographic Unit Organizing Document - Germany