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CV - Achmed A. W. Khammas
Born in 1952 to a German mother and Iraqi father, Mr. Khammas spent many years pendling between Berlin, Germany and Damascus, Syria. While completing his Arabic high school examinations in 1970, Achmed opened and managed the first record store for Rock Music in Damaskus (‘Blow up’). Additionally, he began an internship for aircraft and rocket engineering at MBB/Hamburg. Until 1976, he worked as a scientific free-lancer for ‘Brennpunkt Systemtechnik’, ‘KONPLAN’ and ‘TU-Transfer’ (all at the Technische Universität/Berlin). Achmed also worked on the project, ‘The Berlin Center for Futuristic Studies’. At the same, he was the prime vender for Berlin’s first city magazine, ‘HOBO’ (later known as ‘Zitty’). Since 1975, Achmed has concentrated on the area of renewable energetic fields, especially those for "Religion and Energy", publishing on the prophesies, visions, and messianic obsessions; life goals: world salvation, deliverance with the title ‘The Rarities of Energies’. From 1977-1989, Achmed directed the engineering office of Dipl. Engineer M. Khammas (his father) in Damascus. Additionally, he has worked as a translator (Arabic/German) for many institutions, including the German Foreign Office, BMZ (Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation), GTZ (Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit: Organization for Technical Cooperation), and the KfW (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau: Credit Institute for Reconstruction ) and others. In 1978 Achmed was an offical translator at the German embassy in Damascus and was sent to Germany together with HE President Hafez Al-Assad on his 5-day visit to Bonn and Hamburg. In 1980 the engineering office began studying and designing solar-thermal systems, including an information exchange (diverse publications and lectures) concerning environmental technology. In 1981, Achmed passed his state examinations for the translators’ license in Germany, he is also ‘sworn translator’ in Syria. Supplementary to Achmed’s official work, he organized four holographic exhibitions in Syria, conducted musical experiments with "Sufi-Rock", consulted for diverse institutions relating to ecological farming, including recultivating of desert land, instituting wind energy systems, and creating new irrigation routes. In 1986, together with a colleague from the engineering office in Dasmascus, a discovery was made which resulted in the optimization and patenting of a highly innovative aeordynamic structure, the ‘splitted blade’, and since 1992, he has further developed a high-tech ventilation design for the rotorary blade. Through a cooperation between the Technical College in Wildau, the Technical University/Berlin, and a secondary educational center, the optimization of rotary blades for wind energy was completed. From 1989 to 1992, Achmed was Director of Sales for a development company for environmental technology, LAR (Laser and Analytical Research) in Berlin. A major project was the outfitting of modern laboratories of all East German drink water suppliers. From 1990-1991, Achmed volunteered in the Arabic editorial office at Radio 100 in Berlin. Additionally, he works as a free-lance journalist. He also performed at the "2nd Electronic Art Syndrom" in Berlin. Beginning in 1992, he collaborated together with Mr. Pit Schulz (Botschaft e.V.) and Mr. Bernhard Harrer for the creation of an Electronic Smog Archive ‘E-Smog Archive Berlin’. This work was supported by the Kulturamt (Cultural Ministry) of Berlin-Mitte. Achmed was also one of the original founders of the Datendiwan e.V. In November 1993 Achmed won the "Swiss Design Price", Solothurn, for the extraordinary design of a ‘Splitted Blade Ventilation Device’ (together with the artist, Jörg Reckhenrich). From 1994-1996, he worked as Internet System Operator and had his own section in the Compuserve Forum. In 1995, he participated in an off-shoot program of the Climate Summit (Klimagipfel) in Berlin, the Project ‘Linden Tunnel’ - a model entitled the ‘Messias Machine’ (together with the artist, Ben Wargin). From 1995-1996, Achmed worked as a Marketing Advisor for the HanfHaus GmbH (Hemp House) and organized in September 1996 the first hemp conference, "ERNTE ‘96" (HARVEST '96), under the auspices of the German HanfGesellschaft e.V., Berlin, and opened personaly by the Minister of Environment of Brandenburg, Germany, Mathias Platzeck. Since 1997 he worked as a free-lance networker and ‘Infojockey’ at ‘Patient Information for Complementary Medicine’ and ‘Bernhard Harrer - Wissenstransfer’, Berlin. He worked there also on specialized Intranet-Solutions. In 1999 - 2000, he planed and organized the 9-day ecological festival ‘ID22 - Das Festival für Ökologie - Kultur - Gemeinschaft’, during the ‘International Conference on the Future of Cities URBAN 21’ (together with theTeam of the cultural centre ufafabrik), sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Environment, Berlin, and personaly opened by the Federal Minister of Environment, Jürgen Trittin , during the first SOLAR-SHIP PARADE in Berlin. In March 2000 Achmed won the ‘Multimedia Price 1999’ of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Berlin, for a stand-alone receiver for internet-audio-stream ‘NETradio’. Since 01.07.2001 he is back in Syria to continue the work on renewable energies, new irrigation devices and ecological basics. In 2003 he returns to Germany and workes as translator in Berlin and the Near East. |
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