Fritz Hüttinger
Foundation
Under the umbrella of the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung, the Fritz Hüttinger Stiftung promotes science and research, in particular innovative technologies in the field of electrical energy, as well as fostering community life and civic engagement. The foundation was established by his daughter Gerda Ruf and her husband Fritz Ruf in 2006.
The namesake
Born in 1897, Fritz Hüttinger initially completed an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer. From 1919, he studied electrical engineering at the University of Applied Sciences for Engineering in Constance.
In 1921, he moved to Freiburg i. Br. and founded a company for electrical appliances. In 1925, he expanded the business into a factory for electromedical devices, where the first diathermy and surgical device was mass-produced the following year.
In 1936, production of the "HÜTTINGER high-vacuum amplifier tube" for electromedical devices began in the company's own glass-blowing shop.
After the buildings were destroyed in an air raid in 1944, reconstruction began in 1946. High-frequency and later medium-frequency generators are manufactured.
After his death in 1963, his wife becomes managing partner.
The founders
In 2006, Gerda Ruf, Fritz Hüttinger's daughter, and her husband Fritz Ruf decided to set up the Fritz Hüttinger Foundation in memory of her father and father-in-law.
The Fritz Hüttinger Foundation is administered by the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung.
Its focus is on research into innovative technology in the field of electrical energy.
In addition, the cultivation of the community and civic engagement are particularly important to her.
Fritz Hüttinger named professorship
In 2010, the Fritz Hüttinger Foundation concluded a funding agreement with the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg for the Fritz Hüttinger named professorship. In this agreement, the foundation pledged to support a chair at IMTEK for ten years with 100,000 euros per year. A new agreement has been in place since 2020 for a chair at INATECH.
INATECH
Established in 2020, the Fritz Hüttinger Professorship for Energy-Efficient High-Frequency Electronics at the Institute for Sustainable Systems Engineering (INATECH) focuses on the engineering aspects of the energy efficiency of microelectronic and nanoelectronic building blocks and circuits, especially those based on compound semiconductors. Dr. Rüdiger Quay from the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) of the University of Freiburg and the Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Solid State Physics (IAF) accepted the offer of the professorship.
IMTEK
Professor Yiannos Manoli's professorship for microelectronics at the Institute of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) was renamed the "Fritz Hüttinger Professorship for Microelectronics" in 2010. Students and doctoral candidates at IMTEK benefited from prizes and scholarships awarded to outstanding young scientists in the fields of electrical engineering and power electronics, as well as funding for internships and excursions.
