Career
He was coauthor with Mihajlo Mesarovic of Mankind at the turning point, the second report of the Club of Rome in 1974 which expanded and reviewed the predictions of The Limits to Growth. After a three years study for bricklayer, Pestel received further education at the Fachhochschule in Hildesheim and from 1935 to 1938 at the University of Hanover. Pestel was since 1956 a full Professor of Mechanics at the Technische Hochschule Hannover (today University of Hanover.
Pestel founded the chair of mechanics in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Haifa (Technion) in Israel.
Also, he founded in 1975 the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and Forecast (Internet service provider), which was renamed in his honor as the Eduard Pestel Institute for Systems Research. In 1968 he was one of the founders of the Club of Rome.
He also saw the founding of the German Association of the Club of Rome (DGCoR) in 1978, of which he was the first chair, position he held until his death. In this capacity, he worked on the 1982 founding of the made by Albert Einstein in 1924, and banned the Nazi era German Technion Society, which promotes cooperation between Jewish and German scientists.
Eduard Pestel, who until his death president of this society.
In 1982, Pestel, the Max Born Medal awarded for responsibility in science. Pestel was married to Anneliese Ude-Pestel, an analytical psychotherapist and author