Higher Education

Magister Artium History of Natural Science and Technology and History and specialization in Traffic Engineering from the Univ. Stuttgart

Professional Activities

Curator for crafts, woodworking, textile technology, machine elements and metalworking at Deutsches Museum, Munich

Proven science Assistant and research assistant Employee at the Institute for Mechanical Design and Transmission Engineering (IMK), research and teaching area of ​​technical design at the University of Stuttgart.

Freelance technology and science historian; Traineeship at the Deutsches Museum

Current projects:

• Revision of the machine tools department, modern machine tools room.
• Exhibition project on the subject of robotics and automation technology in collaboration with the heavy current technology and automation department (Dr. Dittmann)
• Exhibition project on the topic “Light as a tool” – the laser in use

Completed projects:

• Collaboration and coordination in the opening of the traffic center (Halls I and II)
• Collaboration and coordination on the project “Pioneers of Industrial Design on Lake Constance” (1998-2003)
• Conception of the exhibition sections on the subject of bicycles in the Deutsches Museum Transport Center (Hall I and II)
• Special exhibitions: Pioneers of industrial design on Lake Constance, July 4th - October 12th, 2003 Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen; 2004 House of History Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
• Collaboration on the special exhibition “Bavaria Steam Pot, Mahler's Eighth and the Moon Rocket - The Hundred-Year History of the Historic Exhibition Halls” (June 12th - September 28th, 2008)

• Kids’ Kingdom. In: Culture and Technology 2022, Issue 4: The new exhibitions, pp. 6-9.
• So that everything flows. Modern systems for controlling traffic flows. In: Culture and Technology 30 (2006), H. 2, pp. 26-30.
• The Technical University of Stuttgart as a recipient of foundation funds. On the importance and influence of industrial foundations in the development of aviation and automotive technology at the TH Stuttgart from 1909 to 1939. In: Flöter, Jonas/Ritzi, Christian (eds.): Educational patronage. Private action – civic spirit – cultural competence since the early modern period. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2007, pp. 403-416 (= contributions to historical educational research 33).
• Meighörner, Wolfgang (ed.): Pioneers of industrial design on Lake Constance. With texts by Hartmut Seeger, Ralf Spicker and others. Friedrichshafen 2003. [Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Pioneers of Industrial Design on Lake Constance", July 4th - October 12th, 2003, in the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen].