Burkhard Heim: Life and Early Development
1925 – Born on 9 February 1925 in Potsdam.
1935 – Begins attending the Viktoria-Gymnasium in Potsdam.
1942 – Transfers to the Gabbe educational institute in Berlin.
May 1943 – Completes his Abitur in Berlin.
19 May 1944 – Severe explosion at the Chemical-Technical Reich Institute in Berlin; Heim loses both hands, becomes almost completely blind, and suffers severe hearing damage.
from 1945 – Begins studying chemistry.
1949 – Begins studying theoretical physics in Göttingen.
Autumn 1949 – Heim directs his studies specifically toward general relativity and quantum theory in order to overcome what he regarded as the break between the two theories.
25 October 1950 – Marries Gerda Straube, who from then on supports Heim in all practical and editorial matters.
February 1954 – Completes his physics studies with the Hauptdiplom.
Development of the Theory in the 1950s
1952 – Heim presents an early version of his theory at an international congress.
1954–1955 – Heim corresponds with Vaclav Hlavaty, a collaborator of Einstein, on questions of unified field theory, since Einstein himself was already too ill.
1956–1960s – Heim attempts a direct experimental verification of a natural effect predicted by the theory; with the means available at the time, no unambiguous confirmation is achieved.
27 October 1957 – Lecture in Frankfurt am Main: “The Contrabaric Effect and Its Astronautical Significance.”
1958 – Numerical calculation of the horizontal intensity of the terrestrial and lunar magnetic field.
September 1958 – Lecture in Bremen on these results.
1958 – Founding of the “German Research Institute for Force-Field Physics and General Cosmology”, which Heim leads and within which the experiments are to be carried out. Sufficient manufacturing and measurement precision is never achieved. The experimental program ends with the death of Burkhard Heim’s father, who had been an indispensable support in the work for the severely disabled physicist.
1958 – Meeting with Hedwig Conrad-Martius.
1958 – Further presentation at an international spaceflight congress in Copenhagen.
1959 – According to Heim’s autobiographical account, his earlier statement on the lunar magnetic field is confirmed in connection with Soviet lunar measurements.
4 June 1959 – Publication of the article “Das Prinzip der dynamischen Kontrabarie” in the journal Flugkörper.
Summer 1959 – Lecture in Rome on the investigations carried out at the institute; this leads to closer contacts with Italian scientists.
Further Consolidation of the Theory
since 1949 – Heim works independently on a general field theory in which all physical fields and their sources are described uniformly as dynamical properties of geometrical structures.
1960s – The work continues to consolidate in the direction of a unified description of elementary particles and their masses.
1969 – Colloquium at Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) in Ottobrunn; among those documented there in photographs and editorial notes are Pascual Jordan and Gebhard Lyra.
Major Works and Published Lectures
1974 – Lecture “Der kosmische Erlebnisraum des Menschen” at the 5th IMAGO MUNDI Congress in Brixen/South Tyrol.
1975 – Beginning of closer publishing cooperation with Andreas Resch.
1976 – Lecture “Der Elementarprozeß des Lebens” at the 6th IMAGO MUNDI Congress.
25 November 1976 – MBB lecture “Basic thoughts on a unified field theory of matter and gravity” in Ottobrunn.
1977 – Publication of the specialist article “Vorschlag eines Weges zur einheitlichen Beschreibung der Elementarteilchen” in Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A.
1979 – In “Einblicke in die Heimsche einheitliche Quantentheorie I,” Illobrand von Ludwiger already describes the development of Heim’s theory in several phases; among them, the “Syntrometrische Maximen-Telezentrik” explicitly appears as an independent line of development.
1980 – Publication of “Postmortale Zustände?”
1980 – Early published version of “Elementarstrukturen der Materie,” Volume 1
1984 – Publication of “Elementarstrukturen der Materie,” Volume 2
1985 – Publication of the “Einführung” in the Heim/Dröscher/Resch context.
1988 – According to the later introduction to the Berlin lectures, Heim states that after completing the major mathematical works he intends to provide a more generally understandable presentation of his theory.
1989 – Professionally revised version of “Elementarstrukturen der Materie,” Volume 1
1994 – Publication of “Einheitliche Beschreibung der materiellen Welt”
1994 – Four major lecture blocks at the TU Berlin, later published as “Berliner Vorträge 1994”:
13/14 May 1994
27/28 May 1994
10/11 June 1994
24/25 June 1994
1995 – Further edition of “Der kosmische Erlebnisraum des Menschen”
1996 – Publication of “Strukturen der physikalischen Welt und ihrer nichtmateriellen Seite” together with Walter Dröscher
1998 – Revised edition of “Elementarstrukturen der Materie,” Volume 1
1998 – Revised edition of “Einführung in Burkhard Heim – Einheitliche Beschreibung der Welt” with glossary, formula index, and general index.
Final Years
1990s – Heim continues working on the foundations of a more comprehensive theory that includes not only material but also non-material domains.
3 February 2000 – Late lecture on “Ethics in Complementary Medicine”
14 January 2001 – Burkhard Heim dies in Northeim.
Estate, Editorial Work, and Historical Preservation
1998 – Beginning of Protosimplex as an important historical online collection on Burkhard Heim, with chronologies, study aids, documents, and further material.
2002 – Publication of Gerda Heim: Erinnerungen an den Physiker Burkhard Heim
2002 – Appearance of further secondary literature, including Horst Willigmann: Grundriss der Heimschen Theorie
2011 – An English research chronology on Burkhard Heim appears on Protosimplex.
2012 – Publication of the collected volume “Mensch und Welt,” which brings together shorter writings and later lectures.
2013–2014 – The tape recordings of the Berlin lectures are transcribed.
from 2014 – Further editorial work on the lectures.
2021 – Print publication of “Berliner Vorträge 1994” by the Arbeitskreis Heim-Theorie with ISBN 978-3-9820381-3-1
2017 – The “Syntrometrische Maximentelezentrik” becomes publicly available online via heim-theory.com after long editorial work in the circle of the then Heim working group.
More Recent Scientific and International Development
2022 – Thomas Warmann publishes “The generation of mass in a non-linear field theory”
2022 – Lyle Allen Anderson presents “Laws of Form and Burkhard Heim’s Theory of Everything”
2023 – Thomas Warmann publishes “The Standard Model and quantum state reduction from Heim’s field theory”
2025 – Thomas Warmann publishes “Particle masses from a non-linear field theory and magnetic charge”
2025 – Publication of a corrigendum to Warmann’s Standard Model paper
2025 – Preprint “Towards a unified quantum theory of gravity and matter” by Warmann
2025 – Marko Miloradovic publishes visibly new works on the Syntrometrische Maximentelezentrik, including:
Unifying Dimensions: Exploring Burkhard Heim’s Syntrometric Vision
A Modernized Syntrometric Logic: Foundations and Applications
2025 – Beginning of a new phase of visible international presentation of Heim Theory at APEC by Joel Michalowitz
since 2025 – On and around heim-theory.com, a new Heim working group is once again growing, aiming to bring together archiving, reconstruction, translation, historical research, and international networking more strongly and to prepare materials for public access.
