Bruno Bauer (electrical engineer)

Bruno Bauer (born February 27, 1887 in Töss , today a district of the city of Winterthur ; † October 21, 1972 in Zurich ), authorized to reside in Rüti ZH , in Zurich since 1901, was a Swiss electrical engineer and university professor .

Life

Family and education

Born in Töss, grew up in Zurich Bruno Bauer, the son of machinery engineer Joseph Ludwig Bauer and his wife Berta born Zollinger, the Swiss turned to Erlangen maturity in the years 1905 to 1911 the electrical engineering degree at the Federal Polytechnic Zurich to 1915 he acquired there the academic degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences ( Dr. sc. techn. ).

Bruno Bauer first married Bertha Maria Theresia in 1918, the daughter of federal civil servant Giuseppe Pasquale Berta, and in 1929 his second marriage was Gemma Giaele, the daughter of Carlo Blenk.

Bruno Bauer died in October 1972 a few months before he would have turned 86 in Zurich.

Professional background

Bruno Bauer, who has held leading positions at the Swiss power transmission AG, based in Bern , and Aluminum-Industrie AG since 1920 . in 1927 followed a call to the full professorship for applied electrical engineering at the ETH Zurich, expanding a professorship to the Institute for Electrical Systems and Energy Management, in 1957 he retired .

Bruno Bauer also held the presidency of Nordostschweizerische Kraftwerke AG (NOK) , the electricity works of the Canton of Zurich (EKZ) , the Federal Water and Energy Commission and the Technical Commission of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Nuclear Technology (NGA).

Bruno Bauer, who played a key role in shaping the Swiss electricity industry, was involved in cogeneration at an early stage , including in 1930 the ETH district heating plant, of which he was in charge until 1957. He is one of the first to deal with the use of atomic energy.

Bruno Bauer's scientific estate is in the ETH Zurich library .

Publications

• Investigations into the shutdown process in the high-voltage oil switch. Technical University of Zurich, 1915 ( dissertation ).
• Purpose and goals of the Swiss power transmission, AG for the brokerage and utilization of electricity. Bern 1920.
• With Paul Dusseiller: The use of electrical energy in the hospital's heating requirements. In: Volume 4 of a report from the operation and research of the district heating power plant of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, district heating power plant (Zurich). Self-published by the district heating power station of the ETH, Zurich, 1936.

literature

• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 1. 10th edition, Berlin 1966, p. 89.
• Swiss Society of Nuclear Experts: History of Nuclear Technology in Switzerland: the first 30 years 1939-1969. Olynthus, Oberbözberg 1992.

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Bauer, Bruno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .