Alwin Nachtweh

Wilhelm Rudolf Arnold Alwin Nachtweh (born May 2, 1868 in Lodenitz near Troppau , Austrian Silesia , † July 17, 1939 in Hanover ) was a German engineer , designer and university professor .

Life

Nachtweh first worked as a designer in Zurich ( Switzerland ) from 1892 to 1896 . From 1895 to 1900 he was a lecturer in agricultural machinery at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic . At times at the same time he was from 1898 a private lecturer in agricultural construction and from 1900 as a full professor at the University of Halle .

In 1903 he was in Braunschweig Dr.-Ing. PhD . From 1901 to 1904 he gave lectures at the University of Göttingen . In 1906 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . From 1905 to 1914 he was the first-budgetary professor of special "Mechanical Technology" ( material engineering and materials science ), technical drawing and agricultural mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Hanover . Since 1908, under Nachtweh, further subject areas, such as the "history of mechanical engineering", have been attached to this chair. In 1913 he was awarded a medal. From 1915 to 1918 he did active military service during the First World War . As early as 1917 he was appointed a secret councilor. His retirement from the TH Hannover took place on April 1, 1935. In November 1933, he signed the confession of the German professors to Adolf Hitler . In 1920 he became a member of the Germania Hanover fraternity .

literature

Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hannover, 1931, pp. 49-50.
Willibald Reichertz: East Germans as lecturers at the Technical University of Hanover (1831-1956) . In: "Ostdeutsche Familienkunde", issue 3/2007, pages 109-120, volume XVIII (55th year), Verlag Degener & Co, Insingen, 2007.

Web links

Entry on Alwin Nachtweh in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

Individual evidence

^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 355.

personal data
SURNAME	Nightache, Alwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nachtweh, Wilhelm Rudolf Arnold Alwin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German engineer, designer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 2, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lodenitz near Troppau , Austrian Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	July 17, 1939
Place of death	Hanover

[1] Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 355.