Egon martyr
Egon Martyrer (born February 25, 1906 in Seehausen (Altmark) , † November 5, 1975 in Hanover ) was a German mechanical engineer and university lecturer in Danzig and Hanover.
Life
After finishing school and subsequent studies in mechanical engineering at the Technische Hochschule Hannover martyrs worked from 1929 to 1932 as an assistant at the RWTH Aachen and received his doctorate there. In the following years he worked in industry. After becoming a member of the NSDAP in 1937, Martyrer was appointed professor at the Technical University of Danzig in 1938 . From 1941 to 1945 he was rector of the TH Danzig. After fleeing, he applied for the chair for water turbines and general mechanical engineering at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University in December 1945, but was not appointed. He had success in 1949 at the TH Hannover, where he held the chair at the institute for machine elements and hydraulic flow machines. From 1959 to 1960 he was rector of the TH Hannover. From 1960 to 1962 Martyrer was deputy chairman of the Association of German Engineers (VDI).
Martyrer made several inventions for which he received patents .
Awards
- A hall in the Institute for Machine Elements, Construction Technology and Tribology at the University of Hanover is named after him.
- 1971 Golden badge of honor from the VDI.
- 1971 Lower Saxony Medal of Merit combined with the Great Cross of Merit.
Fonts
- Force measurements on drag bodies and wing profiles in the water flow during cavitation. Dissertation RWTH Aachen University, 1932.
- with Josef Jehlicka and August Schalitz: Small encyclopedia gearboxes and clutches. DVA, Stuttgart 1964.
- as co-editor: Dubbel - paperback for mechanical engineering . 13th edition. Springer, Berlin.
- Remembering my last days at the Technical University of Gdansk. In: Society of Friends of the Danzig Technical University (ed.): Contributions and documents on the history of the Danzig Technical University 1904–1945: on the 75th day of its foundation. 1979, pp. 45-48.
literature
- Catalogus Professorum 1831–1981. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hanover, Vol. 2, Hanover 1981, p. 188.
- Michael Grüttner : Biographical lexicon on National Socialist science policy. (Studies on the history of science and universities. Volume 6.) Heidelberg 2004, p. 113 f. ISBN 3-935025-68-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Egon Martyrer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - online bibliography: Egon Martyrer , accessed on March 11, 2010.
- ↑ 315 appointment matters 1945–1950: application form Prof. Dr. Egon Martyrer December 5 , 1945 , in: Findbuch (holdings of the RWTH Aachen University Archives ), accessed on March 11, 2010.
- ↑ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - online bibliography: Egon Martyrer , accessed on March 11, 2010.
Directors: Karl Karmarsch (1831–1875) | Wilhelm Launhardt (1875–1880)
Rectors: Wilhelm Launhardt (1880–1886) | Karl Dolezalek (1886-1892) | Wilhelm Kohlrausch (1892–1895) | Albert Frank (1895–1898) | Heinrich Köhler (1898–1901) | Ludwig Kiepert (1901–1904) | Georg Barkhausen (1904–1907) | Hermann Ost (1907–1910) | Franz Frese (1910–1911) | Karl Mohrmann (1911–1913) | Robert Otzen (1913–1915) | Carl Heim (1915–1917) | Ludwig Troske (1917–1919) | Conrad Müller (1919–1923) | Ernst Vetterlein (1923–1925) | Fritz Oesterlen (1925–1927) | Friedrich Quincke (1927–1929) | Otto Blum (1929–1931) | Ludwig Klein (1931–1933) | Otto Franzius (1933–1934) | Horst von Sanden (1934–1937) | Hanns Simons (1937–1939) | Alexander Matting (1940-1943) | Helmut Pfannmüller (1943–1945) | Conrad Müller (1945–1947) | Otto Flachsbart (1947–1950) | Walter Großmann (1950–1951) | Hermann Deckert (1951–1952) | Walter Hensen (1952–1954) | Hans Schönfeld (1954–1956) | Johannes Schlums (1956–1957) | Walter Theilacker (1957–1958) | Wilhelm Nicolaisen (1958–1959) | Egon Martyrer (1959–1960) | Wilhelm Wortmann (1960–1961) | Hans-Oskar Wilde (1961–1963) | Albert Vierling (1963–1964) | Walter Renard (1964–1966) | Theodor Kaluza (1966–1968) | Alf Pflüger (1968–1969) | Eduard Pestel (1969–1970) | Hermann Böhrs (1970–1971) | Jürgen Wehrmann (1971–1972) | Lothar Hübl (1973–1974) | Gerhart Laage (1974–1975) | Hinrich Seidel (1975–1977) | Otwin Massing (1977–1978) | Klaus Schäfer (1978–1979)
President: Hinrich Seidel (1979–1997) | Ludwig Schätzl (1997–2005) | Erich Barke (2005–2014) | Volker Epping (since 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martyr, Egon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mechanical engineer, rector of TH Danzig and TH Hannover |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seehausen (Altmark) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th November 1975 |
| Place of death | Hanover |