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=To-do list=


 * Translate Ernst Schmachtenberg (RWTH Rektor)
 * List_of_German_Bundestag_constituencies#North_Rhine-Westphalia - Aachen (and probably others) need updating with 2013 results

=Oliver Kaczmarek=

Oliver Kaczmarek (born 8 August 1970) is a German SPD politician. He has been the directly elected representative of the Unna I constituency in the Bundestag since 2009.

=Ernst Schmachtenberg translation=

Ernst Michael Schmachtenberg (born 26 April 1952 in Aachen) is a professor of plastics engineering and the rector of RWTH Aachen University.

Life
Schmachtenberg studied mechanical engineering with an emphasis on plastics engineering at RWTH Aachen and received a doctorate in 1985 from the university's  Institut für Kunststoffverarbeitung (IKV). He subsequently led the Part Design, Materials Technology, and Fiber-Reinforced Plastics department at IKV. In 1988 he became head of Research and Development at the Süddeutschen Kunststoff-Zentrum (SKZ) in Würzburg, where he later took over leadership of the testing institute. Work at Bayer AG in Leverkusen followed between 1990 and 1992. He began as leader of the Polymer Processing Group before becoming head of the design department at the company's Polymer division.

In 1993, Schmachtenberg was appointed professor of polymer technology at Universität-Gesamthochschule Essen, now the University of Duisburg-Essen, and to managing director of the company IKM GmbH in Essen. From 1996 to 2000 he was additionally prorector, with responsibility for personnel and finance, at Universität-Gesamthochschule Essen. Due to the merger of the Universities in Essen and Duisburg, and the dissolution of the university's plastics engineering course, he moved back to Aachen, where he took over the professorship of plastics and materials engineering. The focus of his scientific work at IKV was in the area of (materials engineering of plastics?), fibre-reinforced (?) plastic, product development and computer-aided construction.

From 1 April 2006 until 31 July 2008 he was, as successor to Gottfried Wilhelm Ehrenstein, holder of the professorship of plastics engineering (LKT) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Schmachtenberg was, until 2006, leader of the innovation team in the north rhine-westphalian industry initiative Kunststoffland NRW and the deputy spokesman of Wissenschaftlichen Arbeitskreises der Universitäts-Professoren der Kunststofftechnik e.V. (WAK) from its establishment in 1999 until November 2005. In addition, he is deputy chairman of Wissenschaftlichen Arbeitskreises Werkstofftechnik e.V.

Schmachtenberg has been the rector of RWTH Aachen since 1 August 2008. In addition, he has been president of TU9 since 2010.

Works
Schmachtenberg works and publishes in the fields of (materials engineering of plastics), fibre-reinforced plastics and computer-aided construction in particular.


 * Literature by and about Ernst Schmachtenberg in the catalogue of the German national library
 * Haberstroh, Michaeli, Schmachtenberg, Menges: Werkstoffkunde Kunststoffe, ISBN 3446212574
 * Oberbach, Baur, Brinkmann, Schmachtenberg: Saechtling Kunststoff Taschenbuch, ISBN 3446226702

=Links and notes=


 * User:ScoobyHugh/vector.js - DYK Check
 * http://www.flickr.com/people/extratime/ - could ask to use their photos?
 * Irish examiner has good archives
 * Ambassadors/UK/Campus Ambassadors - for when I go back in 4th year?