Topic: High voltage - historical and current
Speaker: Prof. Carsten Leu, Leipzig University of Applied Sciences for Economics, Technology and Culture
Time: Friday, November 7, 2025, 3:00 p.m.
Place: TU Ilmenau, Faraday lecture hall, Weimarer Straße 32, access via Prof.-Schmidt-Straße
Admission: 5 Euro
In 1953, Professor Hans Stamm became the founding rector of the Technical College and today’s TU Ilmenau. With the University of Electrical Engineering, Stamm, previously technical director of a Dresden company specializing in high-voltage testing and X-ray technology, continued the tradition of the Thuringian Technical College, where high-voltage technology was already part of the curriculum at the beginning of the 20th century. For the GDR and its electrical power supply, efficient, long-lasting equipment was important, such as that developed with new materials and technologies in the high-voltage engineering department founded by Prof. Stamm. In his lecture at the TU Ilmenau Citizens’ Campus, Carsten Leu, Professor of Electrical Power Supply and High Voltage Engineering at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, recalls the beginnings of high-voltage engineering at the TU Ilmenau, where he researched and taught until 2020.
With the help of experiments, Prof. Leu also illustrates developments in current high-voltage research and explains how research in the years after reunification was given new, strong impetus by power electronics. It was now possible to optimally convert electrical energy into the desired form for a wide range of applications, for example for drive and process engineering, environmental and medical technology.
Ursula Nirsberger
TU Ilmenau Citizens’ Campus
+ 49 3677 69 4794
buergercampus@tu-ilmenau.de
