Emil Soerensen
Emil Sörensen (born June 27, 1900 in Hamburg ; † November 8, 1977 in Freudenstadt ) was a German mechanical engineer and board member as well as head of research at MAN since 1939.
After graduating from high school in Hamburg in 1918, he studied from 1920 to 1924 at the TH Karlsruhe until he graduated. After receiving his doctorate in 1927, he went to Deschimag and the planning office of AG Weser in Bremen. In 1932 he was appointed full professor for fluid mechanics at the TH Dresden . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . In 1939 he moved to MAN as head of research and became deputy chairman. Because of the arrest of the chairman of the board, Otto Meyer, by the US occupation authorities, Sörensen headed the company from 1945 to 1946. In 1946, he was also given a teaching position at the TH Munich .
literature
- Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 917 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- Johannes Bähr u. a .: MAN: a German industrial history , Beck, Munich 2008
Fonts
- Power and conscience in the economic struggle , Düsseldorf 1949
- Motor and turbine: competition and Cooperation , Munich-Düsseldorf 1955
Web links
- Literature by and about Emil Sörensen in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Soerensen, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mechanical engineer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1977 |
| Place of death | Freudenstadt |