Alfred Jante

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Alfred Paul Heinrich Jante (born June 3, 1908 in Schönlanke ; † March 26, 1985 in Dresden ) was a German mechanical engineer and university professor specializing in internal combustion engines and automotive engineering.

Life

After an apprenticeship as a motor mechanic, Alfred Jante began studying at the State Higher Mechanical Engineering School in Aachen, which he graduated with honors. He was denied further studies at RWTH Aachen University because of his partial Jewish descent, but he was allowed to work as a research assistant under Professor Langer in the university's mechanical engineering laboratory. From 1933 to 1945 he worked for the Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz company , and most recently worked as a department head of diesel engine development with Adolf Schnürle , among others . Numerous Deutz patents from this time go back to Jante.

After the end of the Second World War, Jante initially worked as the technical director of HK Heise Maschinenbau GmbH in Böhlitz-Ehrenberg near Leipzig. In 1946 he became a lecturer and construction officer in the field of internal combustion engines at the Leipzig Engineering School, which, however, had to be closed a short time later due to a lack of approval from the Allies. Jante was appointed mathematics teacher at the Thomas School in Leipzig and later appointed head of the traffic department in Dresden by the Saxon state government. On January 1, 1948, on the initiative of Enno Heidebroek , Jante was appointed full professor and director of the Institute for Automotive Engineering at the Dresden University of Technology . From 1949 to 1951 Jante was dean and until 1953 vice dean of the newly founded Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, where he worked until his retirement in 1973. Alfred Jante died in Dresden in 1985. His grave is in the local Johannisfriedhof .

Act

Numerous articles on thermodynamics, internal combustion engines and automotive technology document his work. Jante has also contributed to the well-known "Automobile Technical Manual" by Richard Bussien and to other compilations. The Jante normal driving diagram proposed by him is currently (2008) still widely used. He has been granted numerous patents in the field of automotive engineering.

Honors

From right: Jante building of the TU Dresden.

Alfred Jante was a full member of the GDR Academy of Sciences from July 1953 , where he headed the mechanical engineering class. The University of Budapest awarded him an honorary doctorate, and he was also recognized as an Honored Technician of the People .

At the TU Dresden, the building of the Institute for Automotive Technology Dresden has been called "Jante-Bau" since 1993.

The Kamm-Jante Medal, awarded every two years by the Scientific Society for Motor Vehicle and Engine Technology (WKM), is named after Wunibald Kamm and Alfred Jante. The WKM, founded in 1997, sees itself as an "association of professors from German, Austrian and Swiss universities who are or have been active as institute directors or as heads of departments or departments in the field of automotive and / or engine technology".

Fonts

Alfred Jante wrote six books of his own and published 146 other writings in anthologies or specialist journals.

  • Guide to technical thermodynamics . Teubner, Leipzig 1950.
  • Motor mechanics . Technical publishing house Cram, Berlin 1952.
  • Internal combustion engines . Technical publishing house, Berlin 1952.
  • Automotive engine development problems . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1958. (= treatises of the German Academy of Sciences, class for mathematics, physics and technology; 1958, 3)
  • About the flushing of two-stroke engines Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1960. (= treatises of the German Academy of Sciences, class for mathematics, physics and technology; 1960, 5)
  • The basics of driving stability . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1963. (= treatises of the German Academy of Sciences, class for mathematics, physics and technology; 1963, 4)
  • On the theory of the motor vehicle . 2 volumes. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1974–1978.
  • Basic problems of internal combustion engines, presented using thermodynamic cycle processes. Text part by Alfred Jante. Dresden: Technical University, area of ​​combustion engines and motor vehicles, 1976. VI, 313 pp.

literature

  • Horst Brunner u. a .: Professor Alfred Jante on his 100th birthday . In: Scientific journal of the TU Dresden . Volume 57, Issue 3-4, 2008, pp. 146f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.wkm-ev.de/wkm.htm
personal data
SURNAME Jante, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jante, Alfred Paul Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Nice slim
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1985
Place of death Dresden