Constantin Weber

Constantin Heinrich Weber (born August 14, 1885 in Bärenwalde near Zwickau , † August 14, 1976 in Hanover ) was a German mechanical engineer and a university lecturer as an engineering scientist .

Life

Family and education

The Evangelical baptized, from the valley of Rödel Bach's native village Bärenwalde Constantin Weber put 1904 the Abitur in Riga from. In 1906 he turned to the study of mechanical engineering at the Polytechnic Riga and at the TH Braunschweig to 1910 he earned his diploma in 1924 which took place Promotion to Dr.-Ing. at the TH Braunschweig. Constantin Weber was married to Ida, née Holecker, with whom he had two children. He died on his 91st birthday in Hanover.

Professional career

Constantin Weber had worked as a designer in various industrial companies since 1911 - interrupted by his participation in the First World War . In 1926 he took over a teaching position at the United Mechanical Engineering Schools in Dortmund . In 1928 Weber followed a call to the full professorship for mechanics and strength theory at the mechanical department of the Dresden University of Technology . In addition, he worked on the development of the V2 weapon in Peenemünde since 1942 . After the Second World War, Constantin Weber was employed as a research assistant and lecturer at the Institute for Machine Elements at the Technical University of Braunschweig, and in 1958 he retired .

Constantin Weber, who discovered the center of shear force in the bent beam in 1923 , was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Braunschweig Technical University in 1950 .

Publications

• The teaching of torsional rigidity. In: Research work in the field of engineering, issue 249. Verlag des Verein deutscher Ingenieure Berlin Julius Springer, Berlin 1921.
• Illustration and application of the minimal theorems of elasticity theory. In: ZAMM - Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics / Journal for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics . Volume 18, Issue 6, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 375–379.
• Strength theory. (2nd edition 1951), in: Books of technology. Wolfenbütteler Verlagsanstalt, Wolfenbüttel [u. a.] 1947.
• together with Werner Thuß, Gustav Niemann : Load limits for straight and helical gears. In: Drive Technology Series, H. 5. F. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1952.
• Vibrations in mechanical engineering; to think along, reflect and think further. German engineering publisher, Düsseldorf 1953.
• Investigation of cylindrical worm drives with axes crossing at right angles. In: Drive Technology Series, Vol. 7. F. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1956.
• together with Wilhelm Günther: Torsion theory. F. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1958.
• To the disintegration of a liquid jet. In: ZAMM ‐ Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics / Journal for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics , Volume 11, Issue 2, 1931, pp. 136–154.

literature

• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 2, 10th edition, Walter de Gruyter & Co, Berlin 1966, p. 2617.
• August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German Who's Who. Volume 16 Arani, Berlin 1970, ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 1398.
• Weber, Constantin. In: 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 , p. 1016.
• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium, Ernst & Sohn 2018 , p. 581ff and p. 1077f (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Constantin Weber in the catalog of the German National Library