Erich Rammler

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Erich Rammler (born July 9, 1901 in Tirpersdorf , † November 6, 1986 in Freiberg ) was a German fuel technician .

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Memorial plaque in Freiberg, Richard-Wagner-Strasse
Rammler's grave in Freiberg

Erich Rammler spent most of his youth in Halle (Saale) . In 1919 he passed the Abitur there, after which he did an internship in the Bitterfeld lignite mining.

From 1920 to 1925 he studied at the Bergakademie Freiberg , where he obtained his doctorate in 1927 on the fineness of lignite dust.

From 1928 to 1936 Erich Rammler worked in Paul Rosin's private institute in Dresden ; In the spring of 1932, both scientists went on a two-month research and lecture tour to the Soviet Union .

Rammler's desire to Freiberg habilitation , he was denied for political reasons. In 1935, however, Rammler became honorary head of a department in the lignite research institute of the Freiberg Mining Academy. Rosin, who was of Jewish descent, sold his private institute to Rammler in 1936 and emigrated two years later. Rammler joined the NSDAP in 1937 . From 1941 Rammler worked for the German Brown Coal Industry Association in Halle . The Dresden Institute was destroyed on February 13, 1945 in the bombing raid on Dresden ; Valuable documents, publications and manuscripts also fell victim to the flames.

After a stopover with his parents in Bitterfeld, Erich Rammler returned to the Bergakademie Freiberg in 1945. For three years he worked as an assistant to Karl Kegel at the Institute for Briquetting . In 1949 he was appointed professor for heat management and fuel technology, and in 1951 he became director of the Briquetting Institute.

Together with Georg Bilkenroth , he began his research in 1949 to develop a metallurgical high-temperature brown coal coke (BHT coke). East German industry urgently needed coke . Traditionally, it was extracted from hard coal : Its most important deposits, however, were in western Germany and in what is now the Polish Upper Silesian industrial area . Both scientists concentrated their research on the Niederlausitz lignite and were finally able to register their patent in 1952, which was successfully implemented in industry; in 1951 they received the national prize for their scientific and technical achievement .

In 1966 Erich Rammler retired. He died on November 6, 1986 in Freiberg. The Freiberg University Library manages his academic estate .

Works

  • Studies on the measurement and evaluation of the fineness of coal dust (dissertation, 1927)
  • Bilkenroth / Rammler: Process and device for the production of lumpy high-temperature coke with high pressure, abrasion and drop resistance from brown coal briquettes (Patent No. 4630, 1952)

Awards and honors

literature

  • Herbert Krug, Karl Heinz Rentrop: The production of a high-strength, lumpy high-temperature lignite coke (BHT coke) in a one-stage process according to Bilkenroth-Rammler - a complex task . Bergakademie Freiberg 1991
  • Eberhard Wächtler , Wolfgang Mühlfriedel, Wolfgang Michel: Erich Rammler . Teubner, Leipzig 1976
  • A life for brown coal: in memoriam Erich Rammler; two lectures on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birthday on July 9, 2001 . TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 2001
  • Erich Rammler: My professional life, parts I to III, unchanged copy of personal notes. , add. to the articles: Angela Kießling u. Susanne Scholze: The academic legacy of Erich Rammler in the university library of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg . Käte Rammler and Hans-Georg Friedel: Erich Rammler private - Biographical data and personal memories . Freiberg 2006. ISBN 978-3-86012-291-4
  • Petra Kahlow-Vorwerk:  Rammler, Erich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Wolfgang Naundorf:  Rammler, Helmut Erich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 133 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Manfred Hahn, Dietrich Stoyan : Erich Rammler and the BHT-Koks . In: Dietrich Stoyan (Hrsg.): Mining Academic Stories: from the history of the Bergakademie Freiberg told on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of its foundation . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2015, ISBN 978-3-95462-410-2 , pp. 247-262 .

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personal data
SURNAME Rammler, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German process engineer
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Tirpersdorf
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1986
Place of death Freiberg