Uwe Pape (5 May 1936 – 13 August 2023) was a German business information scientist and organ expert.
Early life and education.
Pape was born in Bremen. After graduating from gymnasium there, Pape studied mathematics, physics, pedagogy and philosophy at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen from 1955 to 1959, graduating with a diploma and a state examination. In 1965, he received his scientific doctorate in computing technology, with advisor Horst Herrmann at the TU Braunschweig, where he was a research assistant from 1959 to 1971.
Career.
From 1971 to 2001, Pape was professor in business informatics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin. He was visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge in Massachusetts in 1974 and 1984/1985, at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1975, at the University of Texas at Austin in 1976, and at the University of Szczecin from 1988 to 1998. In Dresden, he developed a new faculty for traffic (Fakultät Verkehrswissenschaften) at the Dresden University of Technology, responsible for the economics course.
His research focused on optimisation methods in graphs and networks and optimisation methods in logistics, especially maritime transport logistics. A long-standing cooperation with the BLG Logistics and the Hamburger Hafen und Logistik. Publications appeared with the publishers De Gruyter, Hanser and Springer as well as in journals of operations research and applied informatic.
Organ expert.
Pape had his first contact with organ building in 1953 at the Bremen Liebfrauenkirche where he was a student of Harald Wolff. During his studies he had contact with the organ builder Paul Ott. Pape began to inventory the organs of the Braunschweig Lutheran Church in 1959. In 1962, he founded a publishing house for organ building history. Pape works as a freelance organ expert for regional churches and foundations in Berlin, Bremen, Lower Saxony and Saxony. From 1985 to 2016, he led a research project on organ documentation which resulted in an organ database at the TU Berlin. Together with Paul Peeters from Gothenburg and Karl Schütz from Vienna, Pape was one of the founders of the International Association for Organ Documentation (IAOD) in 1990. He has made a significant contribution to the documentary indexing of the northern German organ landscape. Since 2000 he has been a member of the Vente Foundation ("Stichting Utrecht Orgelarchief Maarten Albert Vente").
Publications.
History of organ building.
Monographs and essays
Editor
References.
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