New President at the Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik

On October 27 2009, the president and Hamburg's representative on the Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik's supervisory board, Werner Koch, presented Dipl.-Ing. Gerhard Breitschaft as the successor to Dipl.-Ing. Erich Jasch, who is retiring as President after five years in office. This occured as part of the farewell ceremony for Erich Jasch.

Mr. Breitschaft, 48, studied civil engineering at Berlin Technical University from 1980 until 1987, concentrating on structural engineering. He began his career upon graduation as a research assistant at the 1st Institute for Mechanics at the TU Berlin, where alongside the standard course in technical mechanics he also lectured in elastic theory, continuum vibrations, continuum physics and tensor analysis. In 1993 Gerhard Breitschaft switched from academia to practice, working at several consulting engineering firms until 2003, when he took up a managerial position at the Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik.