Eduard Gerecke

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Eduard Gerecke (born May 28, 1898 in Zurich ; † April 28, 1983 in Zollikon , ZH) was a Swiss electrical engineer and university professor .

Life

Eduard Gerecke attended secondary school in Zurich and then studied electrical engineering at the ETH Zurich from 1917 to 1922. His first professional activity was at Brown, Boveri & Cie. out. Then from 1925 he ran his own study office together with Walter Dällenbach. During this time they developed a pump-less mercury - rectifier . Gerecke has been hailed as one of the pioneers of rectifiers. With the Pintsch works in Berlin and the company Sécheron SA in Geneva , this type of rectifier was made ready for series production. In 1948 Gerecke became a private lecturer at the ETH Zurich, then in 1952 a full professor of general electrical engineering at the same university. Then he also gave lectures on industrial electronics and automation . Due to his many years of industrial experience and talent as a teacher, his lectures were very much appreciated by students. Together with André A. Jaecklin he was one of the advocates for the introduction of postgraduate courses at the ETHZ.

Memberships

  • Co-founder and President of the Swiss Society for Automatics
  • International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Executive Counsel, President

Honors

Individual notes

  1. ↑ a b c d Thomas Fuchs: Eduard Gerecke. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 4, 2005 , accessed June 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Mohamed Mansour: In memory of Eduard Gerecke. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 4, 1983, p. 37
  3. ^ Eduard Gerecke 1898-1983. Estate and correspondence from around 1918-1981. ETH Zurich, Research Collection, 1996
personal data
SURNAME Gerecke, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss electrical engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1983
Place of death Zollikon , Switzerland