His professional career is a highly exciting journey full of progressive ideas, groundbreaking inventions, business and company start-ups across the world of electronics and electrical engineering.

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One of his most important technological developments was the "field-oriented control of rotating field machines", which is now considered a standard procedure in drive technology. He holds various patents in the field of drive technology, microelectronics and power electronics and has been honored for his work with several national and international awards, including the IEEE IAS Award (1980), the Eugen Hartman Prize of the VDE ETG (1982) and the Innovation Foundation (2005).