Franz Wever

Franz Wever (completely: Franz Wilhelm Otto Gerhard Wever) (* 1892 ; † July 7, 1984 ) was a German physicist and materials scientist .

Life

Franz Wever studied physics at the University of Göttingen and was there from 1919–1920 3rd assistant in the department for mathematical (or theoretical) physics at the Physics Institute . With his dissertation on the theory of light for active crystals , he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD .

In 1920 Wever became assistant and then head of the physics department and scientific member (1929) of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Iron Research in Düsseldorf . He completed his habilitation in 1925 and taught as a private lecturer and from 1930–1944 as an associate professor for applied physics and physics of metals at the University of Cologne . In 1944, after the death of the director of the iron research institute Friedrich Körber , Wever was his successor, after the security service of the Reichsführer SS had given a positive assessment (“professionally assessed as extremely competent, ideologically flawless, predestined for leading people, neither in political nor in character is known of negative things about him ”). Under his leadership, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Iron Research and later the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research achieved top positions worldwide with its research. In 1959 he retired.

Honors

Honorary professor at the University of Bonn
Heyn commemorative coin of the German Society for Material Science 1968

swell

German biography: Wever, Franz Wilhelm Otto Gerhard (accessed July 27, 2015)

Web links

Literature by and about Franz Wever in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ University of Bonn, historical calendar for the year 2009: 25th anniversary of the death of Franz Wever .
^ Writings from the Göttingen University Archives (Eds. Ulrich Hunger, Hermann Wellenreuther ). Volume 1: Special inventory on the history of mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Göttingen from 1880-1933: A guide to the archival sources (edited by Martin Fimpel with the assistance of Detlef Busse, Guido Ewald, Nicolé Rüschoff, Norbert Wex), Göttingen 2002, p 286, 288, 391.
^ Dnb: Dissertation Franz Wever
↑ ^a ^b Rüdiger Hachtmann : Science Management in the "Third Reich" , Volume 2. Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2007, p. 786, 1022.

^ Festschrift of the Working Group for Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in honor of Prime Minister Karl Arnold on May 4, 1955 . West German Publishing House , Cologne 1955.

personal data
SURNAME	Wever, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wever, Franz Wilhelm Otto Gerhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physicist and materials scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	1892
DATE OF DEATH	7th July 1984

[1] University of Bonn, historical calendar for the year 2009: 25th anniversary of the death of Franz Wever .

[2] Writings from the Göttingen University Archives (Eds. Ulrich Hunger, Hermann Wellenreuther ). Volume 1: Special inventory on the history of mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Göttingen from 1880-1933: A guide to the archival sources (edited by Martin Fimpel with the assistance of Detlef Busse, Guido Ewald, Nicolé Rüschoff, Norbert Wex), Göttingen 2002, p 286, 288, 391.

[3] Dnb: Dissertation Franz Wever

[RH-4] Rüdiger Hachtmann : Science Management in the "Third Reich" , Volume 2. Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2007, p. 786, 1022.

[5] Festschrift of the Working Group for Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in honor of Prime Minister Karl Arnold on May 4, 1955 . West German Publishing House , Cologne 1955.