Friedrich Eisenkolb

Friedrich "Fritz" Eisenkolb (born January 5, 1901 in Warnsdorf , Warnsdorf district , Bohemia, † September 29, 1967 in Dresden ) was a German metallurgist .

Life

Eisenkolb's grave in the New Catholic Cemetery in Dresden

After graduating from high school, Friedrich Eisenkolb studied chemistry and metallurgy at the German Technical University in Prague from 1919 to 1923 . He received his doctorate there in 1924 and then worked at the ironworks AG Rothau -Neudek in Bohemian Westerzgebirge . In 1928 he wrote a second dissertation on the subject of “pickling sheet metal”. In 1931 he became head of the quality department and the research and testing institute of Blechwerke AG Karlshütten . In 1937 he completed his habilitation at the German Technical University in Prague, again with a thesis on the behavior of sheet metal , took up a teaching position and headed the research and testing institute of the Thale iron and steel works . In 1940 he became a member of the NSDAP .

After the Second World War, he was Professor of Materials Science at the Technical University of Dresden from 1949 until his retirement in 1966 . In 1953 Eisenkolb was elected a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . In 1959 he received the National Prize of the GDR, 2nd class for science and technology, and in 1961 the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. Eisenkolb died in Dresden in 1967 and was buried in the New Catholic Cemetery.

Eisenkolb became known for his multi-volume introduction to materials science , which appeared in many editions in the GDR. A number of well-known academic students emerged from his environment, such as the regular academician and long-time 1st Vice President of the Academy Ulrich Hofmann .

Works (selection)

• Introduction to Materials Science , Vol. 1: General Metallurgy , Vol. 2: Mechanical Testing of Metallic Materials , Vol. 3: Ferrous Metals , Vol. 4: non-ferrous metals , Vol. 5: Powder Metallurgy , Berlin: VEB Verl technique, 1957-1967.
• Advances in powder metallurgy , Vol. 1: Fundamentals of powder metallurgy ; Vol. 2: Technological devices and powder metallurgical materials , Berlin: Akademie-Verl., 1963

literature

• Andreas Kahlow:  Eisenkolb, Friedrich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 78.

Web links

• Members of the predecessor academies: Friedrich Eisenkolb. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 19, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walter Ulbricht awarded high honors , In: Neues Deutschland , January 19, 1961, p. 1
2. ^ Technical University of Dresden (ed.): Graves of professors of the alma mater dresdensis in cemeteries in Dresden and the surrounding area . 2nd Edition. Lausitzer Druck- und Verlagshaus, 2003, p. 22.