At the end of August, an era came to a close in the Department of Geoinformatics and Surveying when Prof. Axel Lorig, a former senior civil servant, supervised his final thesis. The professors in the department expressed their heartfelt gratitude to the beloved lecturer and valued colleague for nearly 40 years of dedicated support in teaching.
Since 1982, Prof. Lorig had taught courses on land development, rural land use planning, village renewal, and regional planning. His high-quality courses were distinguished by their strong practical focus, which made them very popular among students. Lorig was honored for his extraordinary contribution as early as 1994 with his appointment as an honorary professor.
A milestone for the department was the introduction in 2014 of the combined bachelor’s degree program in Geoinformatics and Surveying in conjunction with career training for the third entry-level position in the surveying and geoinformation service. Prof. Lorig was one of the initiators of this idea and drove its implementation forward with great dedication. The combined degree program, which saves graduates about one year of study, makes an important contribution to recruiting young talent for the Rural Areas Service Center and the Rhineland-Palatinate Surveying and Cadastral Administration.
Starting in the 2021–22 winter semester, the exceptionally popular course on land development topics will be taught by Nina Lux and Thomas Mitschang. Nina Lux is the group leader for “Land Readjustment” at the Rural Service Center (DLR) Rheinhessen-Nahe-Hunsrück and the training coordinator for students in the combined program for the higher civil service in surveying. Thomas Mitschang has been working since 2017 in Division 8604, “Rural Development, Land Reorganization, and Land Consolidation Administration,” at the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Economics, Transportation, Agriculture, and Viticulture in Mainz.
The Department of Geoinformatics and Surveying extends its heartfelt best wishes to Prof. Lorig for his well-deserved retirement.
