ROTHE, Dietmar (E.) 1934-

PERSONAL:

Born August 22, 1934, in Oppach, Germany; U.S. citizen; son of Herbert Paul (an engineer) and Ella Clara (Berndt) Rothe; married Gerda K. Mahlstedt, 1957 (divorced, 1979); married Rose Angela Roeser 1986; children: Eric Wayne, Frederic Terence. Ethnicity: "German." Education: McMaster University, B.Eng. (honors; engineering physics), 1961; University of Toronto, M.A.Sc. (applied science), 1962, Ph.D. (aerospace sciences), 1966. Religion: "Reared Lutheran; now New Consciousness." Hobbies and other interests: Philosophy, nature, astrophysics, poetry, hiking, painting, photography.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Encinitas, CA. Agent—Avila Books, P.O. Box 418, Cardiff by the Sea, CA 92007. E-mail—rtr@sand.net.

CAREER:

Engineer and author. General Electric Co., Guelph, Canada, designer and engineering assistant, 1953-59; Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Buffalo, NY, research aerodynamicist and plasma physicist, 1966-71; Lumonics Research Ltd., Ottawa, Canada, staff scientist, 1971-76; Northrop Research and Technology Center, Palos Verdes, CA, research scientist, 1976-80; Helionetics, Inc., San Diego, CA, manager, laser division, 1980-83; Rothe Technical Research, Encinitas, CA, scientific consultant, 1983-99; writer and translator, beginning 1996. Lasertechnics Marking Corporation, Albuquerque, NM, scientific advisory board member, 1995-2000; activist for Urban growth control, 1985—. Holds four patents in pulsed-power technology.

MEMBER:

Sierra Club, Optical Society of America, Astronomical Society Pacific, Sigma Xi.

AWARDS, HONORS:

NASA Tech Brief Award, 1970; Editor's Choice Awards, National Library of Poetry, 1995, 1996; more than a dozen research and development grants from various sources, including U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, and NASA.

WRITINGS:

(Translator and editor) Ella Rothe, My Verses, privately published, 1992.

In Search of Truth and Freedom: A Path from Ignorance to Awareness, Avila (Cardiff by the Sea, CA), 2000.

(Co-translator) The Talmud of Immanuel, third edition, Blue Water, 2001.

Contributor of poetry to The Path Not Taken, edited by Caroline Sullivan, and Best Poems of the '90s, edited by Howard Eli, both published by National Library of Poetry, 1996. Author of scientific research papers.

SIDELIGHTS:

Dietmar Rothe told CA: "Only in the last few years have I been writing seriously for the purpose of conveying my philosophical thoughts to others who might benefit from my insights and discoveries to guide them in their own quest for truth and meaning. So, I have not considered myself a writer until quite recently. Previously, I identified with being an engineer, a scientist, and an amateur artist. Now, after decades of critically observing and analyzing reality and human behavior, I feel I have grown enough in knowledge and wisdom to offer something of value to the inquisitive reader.

"My viewpoints, opinions, and convictions have crystallized out of a lifelong study of the world's philosophies, sciences, and religions. I have taken ideas from many sources of knowledge and integrated these with my own experiences and with my professional knowledge of physics and engineering in order to construct a self-consistent world view. My personal philosophy has been influenced by early Eastern philosophy, by the idealism and romanticism of the eighteenth century, and by New Age thought. Other contributions have come from my knowledge of Western science, from my sense of logic, and through my intuitions. I have found many truths in the writings of Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schelling, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Carl Jung, Khalil Gibran, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Stewart Emery, Terry Cole-Whittaker, and many others."