Franz Heinrich Ollendorff
Franz Heinrich Ollendorff (born March 15, 1900 in Berlin -Charlottenburg; † December 9, 1981 in Haifa , Israel) was a German electrical engineer.
Life
He was the son of the Jewish businessman Nathan Ollendorff and his wife Martha. In 1918 he graduated from Mommsengymnasium and studied electrical engineering at the Technical University (TH) Berlin . Then he went in 1922 as an assistant to the Institute of Electrical Engineering at the University of Danzig , where he researched high-frequency technology . Here he also met his future wife Ruth Kaetler.
Because of the rising anti-Semitism in Danzig , they went to Berlin, where he worked for Siemens-Schuckert . In 1928 he became a private lecturer and senior engineer at the chair of the privy councilor Ernst Orlich for theoretical electrical engineering at the TH Berlin.
After he was expelled from the TH Berlin in 1933, he worked as a teacher in a Jewish elementary school. In autumn 1934 he emigrated to Palestine , where he wanted to teach at an emergency school for immigrants. In 1935 he returned to Berlin in poor health, where he was now in charge of the Youth Alijah School.
In March 1937 Franz Ollendorff finally moved to Palestine, where he now taught electrical engineering at the Technion in Haifa and became a professor the following year. In 1954 he received the Israel Prize . In 1960 the Technical University of Berlin awarded him an honorary doctorate .
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literature
- Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ollendorff, Franz Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German electrical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin -Charlottenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1981 |
| Place of death | Haifa |