Dietrich Severin

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Dietrich Severin (born March 24, 1935 Neustettin ; † June 28, 2019 Berlin ) was a professor at the TU Berlin for conveyor and transmission technology.

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From 1941 to 1945 Dietrich Severin attended the elementary school in Lübgust in the Neustettin district and, after fleeing, from 1946 the secondary schools in Eilenburg ( Saxony ), Sasbach in Baden and Neuburg an der Donau , where he also obtained his school-leaving certificate in 1956.

After he decided to study mechanical engineering, in 1954 and 1955 he completed the basic internship at the Rheinische Röhrenwerke in Mülheim and the Gutehoffnungshütte in Sterkrade and worked as a student trainee at the MAN plant in Nuremberg . This was followed by a degree in mechanical engineering at the TU Berlin. During the semester break, Severin completed the specialist internship and worked as a student trainee at Lederle in Freiburg im Breisgau and Kleinbrahm in Mülheim / Ruhr. In 1961 he passed the diploma examination at the TU Berlin in the field of conveyor technology with Hans Overlach. Subsequently, Dietrich Severin worked until 1966 as a scientific assistant at the chair for conveyor technology and transmission technology at Overlach. The conclusion of his assistantship was the dissertation “Investigation of rolling gear pairings”, which was rated “very good”.

After receiving his doctorate, Severin took up a position as an engineer at Krupp Kranbau in Wilhelmshaven on April 1, 1966 . On October 1, 1967, he was promoted to head of the mechanical engineering design department “Handling systems and gantry cranes” and, with effect from July 1, 1971, he was promoted to operations manager of the entire steel construction design department “Handling systems and gantry cranes”. Because of this managerial position, Severin was appointed by the Northwestern Iron and Steel + Trade Association in Hanover as an expert for testing cranes. Since 1970 he has worked in ISO wire rope standards committees.

Because of his extraordinary technical and scientific competencies and his exposed position in industry, Dietrich Severin was appointed to the chair for conveyor and transmission technology by the TU Berlin in 1976, a position that he held until his retirement at the age of 68 and that he held with a high level Understand how to use his commitment to the interests of research and teaching. Just one year after Severin's appointment, he was appointed head of the VDI working group for material flow and conveyor technology .

Dietrich Severin was one of the leading researchers in the fields of brake and clutch technology, drive and drive systems with plastic wheels, tribology and lubrication technology as well as conveyor technology and made a significant contribution to the reputation of the mechanical engineering of the TU Berlin in the professional world. Severin supervised 20 dissertations and in 1996 also took over the management of the Institute for Agricultural Machinery and Oil Hydraulics

Personal

Dietrich Severin was a member of the same family who had some relatives in Bochum around 1600 and from whom Carl Theodor Severin (1763–1836) and Ludwig Severin (1811–1867) came from. He was the son of a qualified farmer and genealogist Heinrich Severin (1902–1983), and had three sisters who were born in 1938, 1941 and 1949. He married his wife Ingeborg in 1961 and had two children with her.

Severin died of complications from cancer. Until the end, he hiked Central Germany with his wife, as well as the Way of St. James in Spain or rode longer distances by bike, for example from Berlin to the Baltic Sea.

Fonts (selection)

  • Investigations on rolling gear pairings; Drilling torques, tangential forces, etc. Coefficients of friction in elliptical Hertzian contact surfaces with small axial ratios . Dissertation TU Berlin, 1965.
  • with V. Schenk: Lossless determination of movement and force variables using the simulation of real systems. In: Construction. 33, 1981, H. 9, pp. 351-359
  • Static friction coefficient and sliding friction coefficient in friction pairings of brakes: Final report on the research project ERP 2589 for the calendar years 1987–1989. 1989
  • with others: Proceedings for the symposium Mechanical Brakes and Clutches : Performance of New Friction Materials and Brake Systems - October 11th and 12th, 1990 . Institute for conveyor and transmission technology at the Technical University of Berlin.
  • with F. Musiol: The friction process in dry-running mechanical brakes and clutches. In: Konstruktions 47 (1995), Heft 3, pp 59-68.
  • with X. Liu: On the wheel-rail system in conveyor technology. Calculation and appropriate use of plastic wheels. In: German lifting and conveying technology dfh 1999, issue 5, pp. 40-46.

literature

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  1. ↑ DIN standards committee for steel wire and steel wire products (NAD). Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Mechanical engineering. In: Research and teaching at the Technical University of Berlin today. TU Berlin press office, accessed on October 28, 2019 . .
  3. ↑ Obituary notice. (PDF) Technische Universität Berlin, accessed on October 28, 2019 .
  4. ^ Heinrich Severin: Family history Severin , Hattingen City Archives , Part 2, p. 9b, No. LI 217.
personal data
SURNAME Severin, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer and professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustettin
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2019
Place of death Berlin