Adolf Güntherschulze

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Günther Adolf Eugen August Güntherschulze , formerly Günther-Schulze, quoted A. Güntherschulze, (born July 26, 1878 in Hanover ; † March 30, 1967 in Munich ) was a German experimental physicist , professor at the TH Dresden .

Güntherschulze was the son of an architect, graduated from high school in Hanover in 1897 and, after an internship at the telegraph construction company H. Pfaff in Hanover, studied physics at the Technical University of Hanover from 1897 . From 1901 he was at the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR) in Berlin, initially as a scientific assistant, from 1903 as an assistant and from 1907 as a permanent employee. In 1902 he received his doctorate in Hanover. After military service in 1914, he became a professor at the TH Charlottenburg and a member of the PTR in 1915. From 1928 he was head of the laboratory and in 1929 director of the Osram company in Berlin. In 1930 he became a full professor and director of the Institute for General Electrical Engineering at the TH Dresden, which he remained until 1945. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . From 1948 to 1956 he was professor for general electrical engineering at the TH Munich .

He dealt in particular with gas discharge, rectification, dielectrics . He wrote some articles in the handbook of physics by Geiger / Scheel.

Fonts

  • Galvanic elements and low-voltage accumulators , 1921
  • On dielectric strength , Kösel and Pustet 1924
  • with Werner Germershausen: Overview of the current status of rectifiers , 2nd edition, Leipzig 1925
  • Galvanic elements , Halle / Saale: Knapp 1928
  • Electrical rectifiers and valves , Springer Verlag 1924, 2nd edition 1929
  • with Hans Betz: Elektrolytkondensatoren , 2nd edition, Berlin: Cram 1952 (first edition 1937 without Betz)

source

  • Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 .
  • Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biography Encyclopedia , Saur Verlag
personal data
SURNAME Güntherschulze, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Günther-Schulze, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1967
Place of death Munich