Dietrich von Heyden-Linden

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Dietrich von Heyden-Linden (born November 8, 1898 in Gehmkow , † August 25, 1986 in Demmin ) was a German physicist and photographer.

Life

Dietrich von Heyden-Linden was the youngest of six children of Friedrich von Heyden-Linden (1843-1904) and his wife Carola Freiin von der Lancken-Wakenitz (1860-1942). When the eldest brother Georg married in 1914 and took over the inheritance of his father, who had died 10 years earlier, the mother moved to Demmin with Dietrich and his sister Ilse von Heyden-Linden . There he attended grammar school and after graduating from high school studied chemistry and physics at the universities of Berlin, Jena and Greifswald . He specialized in electrical engineering and experimental physics .

In 1926 he tried to build radio sets with a college friend. The company founding failed due to the global economic crisis . In the 1930s he ran a radio specialist shop in Demmin. His financial situation only improved after he was able to patent some inventions. These were various electronic measuring devices.

For the air force he developed a simulator that was used in pilot training. Until 1945 he was employed as a consultant at the Reich Aviation Ministry in Berlin. After the Second World War he reopened his radio business and worked as a teacher for electrical engineering at the district vocational school.

After he was able to do a job for the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in 1960/61 , he was accepted as an academician and employed as a research manager. A branch of the Academy for Scientific Equipment was set up in his house. He worked there until he was 80 years old.

Dietrich von Heyden-Linden married Hildegard Strehlow in 1928. After their suicide in 1948, he married Ulla Bormann in 1956.

photography

Photography was one of his interests from an early age. In the 1920s he photographed numerous motifs in Demmin and the surrounding area and had the black and white slides colored by his sister Ilse, an artist. After the war he secretly took pictures of his destroyed hometown despite the ban.

literature

  • Wolfgang Fuhrmann: An outsider for life. The Demmin inventor, physicist and photographer Dietrich von Heyden-Linden . In: Heimatkurier. Supplement to the Nordkurier . February 6, 2006, p. 23 .
  • Helmut G. Pratzel (Ed.): In the land of the Tollensians. A history of Western Pomerania. Chronicle of the Sarov community . ISMH Verlag, Sarow 2006, ISBN 3-934043-07-0 , From the life of Dietrich von Heyden-Linden, p. 127–130 (according to the publisher's statements [2018] not yet published; eBook edition in preparation).

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personal data
SURNAME Heyden-Linden, Dietrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Gehmkow
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1986
Place of death Demmin