Edwin Schwerin

Edwin Schwerin (born September 29, 1886 in Berlin , † March 26, 1959 in Haifa ) was a German-Israeli engineer.

Life

Edwin Schwerin studied at the Luisenstädtisches Gymnasium in Berlin (where he received the Imperial Premium for his achievements in 1905 ) and studied civil engineering at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg with a diploma in 1909. He was employed in the railway administration in Strasbourg and Halle and from 1913 in the Berlin building administration . At the same time, he was still scientifically active and received his doctorate in 1917 under Hans Reissner and Heinrich Müller-Breslau (stresses in symmetrically and asymmetrically loaded spherical shells). From 1918 to 1933 he was an engineer at AEG, first in aircraft construction, then in automobile construction and, from 1923, in the construction of power plant turbines. In 1921 he became a private lecturer and in 1926 an associate professor at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg. In 1924 he lectured at the International Congress for Applied Mechanics in Delft (torsional stability of thin-walled tubes) and in 1926 at the one in Zurich (transverse vibrations of bars with variable cross-sections). As a Jew, Schwerin was directly affected by the Nazis' seizure of power in 1933 and went to Haifa as a professor of mechanics at the Technion , where he held lectures for civil engineers as well as mechanical and electrical engineers. He was only able to carry out research to a limited extent due to the low financial resources of the university. Badly hit by the death of his wife in 1957, he died of pneumonia in 1959.

literature

• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 733 and p. 1061 (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .
• Schwerin, Edwin , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 338
• Schwerin, Edwin , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1065

Fonts

• About stresses in symmetrically and asymmetrically loaded spherical shells (domes) especially when exposed to wind pressure, 1919
• The strength calculation of the aircraft spars, 1916
• On the stability of the thin-walled hollow sphere under uniform external pressure, 1922
• About the stresses in self-supporting filled pipes, 1922
• About the buckling resistance of flat sheet metal with eccentric edge loading, 1923
• The torsional stability of the thin-walled pipe, 1925
• About transverse vibrations of bars of variable cross-section, 1927
• On stresses and changes in shape of circular diaphragms, 1929