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was born in Niebüll/
Schleswig on 28 June 1935. He grew up in a
free atmosphere, taking part in Boy Scout
activities for five years. An amateur radio
enthusiast, he received his licence (DJ1PZ) in
1953. After serving a three-year apprentice-
ship as an electrician, he became the youngest radio officer in
the merchant navy in 1955 and then sailed around the world
for another three years. From 1957 to 1962, he studied electrical
engineering in Bingen on the Rhine and spent a year as an exchange
student (
Ulrich
Jochimsen
the German Academic Exchange Service) at the
Ryerson Institute of Technology in Toronto, Canada (1959-1960).
He worked as an engineer at the Institute for Experimental Nuclear
Physics at the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe from 1962
to 1968. In 1966, he started his own company VIDEO-DIGITAL-
TECHNIK, specialising in television studio technology. In 1973, he
developed the pocket radio-telephone, that is, mobile phone, and
founded the Institute for Telecommunications Technology and
Systems Research that same year. He was the only representative
of the state of Hesse in the federal commission on technical
communications in 1974-1975, where he presented his concepts
of the BLACKBOX (a wall socket for the individualised use of the
telephone in the private home, separating the user's appliance
from the monopolised telecommunications network, an idea very
much ahead of its time) and the mobile phone (using the higher
frequency bands for individualised communication). In 1976, he
invented the ENERGIEBOX, a mini co-generation plant designed
for use in individual homes for the decentralised production of
energy and heat—as an alternative to building further nuclear
power stations. He carried out a study on the ENERGIEBOX for
the minister-president of Hesse from 1977 to 1978. Since 1978,
he has been involved in the struggle for the use of decentralised
renewable energies. On 26 April 2006—the 20th anniversary
of the Chernobyl disaster—Ulrich Jochimsen was awarded the
Bundesverdienstkreuz (Order of the Federal Republic of Germany,
similar to the British OBE). Also in 2006, he received the German
EUROSOLAR prize for his ENERGIEBOX.
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