Eugene Flegler

Eugen Flegler (born June 23, 1897 in Bensheim ; † December 29, 1981 in Aachen ) was a German electrical engineer and university professor at RWTH Aachen University .

Life

As the son of the theologian and educator Wilhelm Flegler , Flegler studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt from 1919 to 1923 .

As the first assistant to Walter Rogowski , he and Walter Grösser developed a cathode ray oscillograph with which a traveling wave was recorded for the first time in 1925 . In his doctoral thesis for Dr.-Ing. he was able to further increase the electron beam deflection with a second coil between the cathode and anode screen .

As a university lecturer, he worked at a number of technical universities in Germany and abroad. Initially from 1931 to 1936 at the TH Munich ; from 1936 to 1938 he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Tongji University in Shanghai. From 1941 to 1945 he taught at the TH Prague before he was appointed to the RWTH Aachen on February 1, 1948. In the Faculty of Electrical Engineering , he was given the field of general and theoretical electrical engineering. Here he worked until his retirement and in the meantime headed the university as the successor to Robert Schwarz from 1954 to 1956 as its rector .

“In recognition of his great services, which he has earned as a long-term and tireless employee in the academic self-administration of the Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen” , Flegler was made an honorary senator of the RWTH on October 15, 1965 and received on October 6 1967 the university plaque in gold. In 1977 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Publications (selection)

The mode of operation of overvoltage protection devices according to investigations with the cathode oscilloscope ; 1928
Basic areas of electrical engineering ; Heidelberg, Carl Winter University Press, 1948
with Abraham Esau : Localization with electric and ultrasonic waves in technology and nature ; 1953
with Hans Fritz Schwenkhagen (1900–1958): Investigation of electrical charging phenomena in the atmosphere ; 1965
Electrical breakdown problems ; Cologne / Opladen, West German publisher; 1969
Investigations of oxidic ferromagnetic materials
Introduction to high voltage technology ; Karlsruhe, G. Braun Verlag, 1964

Individual evidence

↑ Dissertation: The mode of operation of overvoltage protection devices after investigations with the cathode oscilloscope (1928)
↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)

literature

Beyond Shanghai. Eugen Flegler's pictures of China . Munich / Hamburg, Dölling and Galitz Verlag, 2010

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personal data
SURNAME	Flegler, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German electrical engineer and university professor; RWTH Rector
DATE OF BIRTH	June 23, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bensheim
DATE OF DEATH	December 29, 1981
Place of death	Aachen

[1] Dissertation: The mode of operation of overvoltage protection devices after investigations with the cathode oscilloscope (1928)

[2] Rector's speeches (HKM)