Friedrich Förster (physicist)

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Friedrich Förster (born February 13, 1908 in Hundisburg ; † March 29, 1999 in Reutlingen ) was a German physicist whose research established modern magnetic and magneto-inductive materials testing.

Life

Rectory in Hundisburg, where Friedrich Förster was born

Friedrich Förster was the son of the Hundisburger pastor Friedrich Förster and was born in the Hundisburger parsonage. From 1920 to 1927 he attended high school in Haldensleben . After graduating from high school, he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Göttingen from 1928 to 1932 . Following his doctorate in 1932 and his assistantship at the university until 1935, he worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Metal Research in Stuttgart . There he developed measuring devices that made it possible to test metals without damaging or destroying them ( non-destructive material testing ). In 1937, while studying the magnetic properties of metals, Förster discovered the influence of the earth's magnetic field on the test coil and he began to develop measuring devices for magnetic fields ( Förster probe or fluxgate magnetometer ). The devices developed by Förster on the basis of his discoveries were widely used because of their importance for the production of armaments and the testing of weapons technology in the armaments industry and for parts of the armed forces at the front. After the institute was relocated to Eningen in 1943 , Förster was arrested there by the French occupation in 1945 and sentenced to one year in prison for attempting to prevent the institute's equipment from being transported away. In 1948 he founded his own company, the Institut Dr. Friedrich Förster Prüfgerätebau GmbH & Co. KG to manufacture test devices for industry. In 1992 he received NASA's highest award for his work .

Honors

Since November 7, 2008, the high school in Haldensleben has been called Professor-Friedrich-Förster-Gymnasium . A memorial plaque was placed on the house where he was born, the former rectory at Dönstedter Strasse 3, in February 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Winfried Morgner: 'In Memoriam Friedrich Förster', p. 2, https://www.ndt.net/article/ndtnet/2009/foerster.pdf , accessed on August 15, 2018.
  2. ^ Helmut Maier: Research as a Weapon: Armaments Research in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Metal Research 1900-1945 / 48 , Volume 1, Göttingen 2007, p. 407. ISBN 978-3-8353-0109- 2
  3. ↑ Helmut Maier: Max Planck Institute for Metal Research Berlin - Stuttgart , in: Peter Gruss and Reinhard Rürup [ed.]: Places of thought: Max Planck Society and Kaiser Wilhelm Society: Breaks and Continuities: 1911 - 2011 , Dresden 2010, p. 337. ISBN 3-942422-01-8
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Biedermann: Structure of the financing of institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science (1924-1944): Studies on the sources of finance and the relationship between material and personnel expenses in Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes , Berlin 2011, p. 125 . ISBN 3-934682-42-1

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personal data
SURNAME Forester, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Hundisburg
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1999
Place of death Reutlingen