Friedrich Koerber

Friedrich Körber (born April 1, 1887 in Duisburg , † July 30, 1944 in Göttingen ) was a German engineer .

Life

Körber, son of the secondary school teacher Otto Körber from Eisleben and his wife Elise geb. Wilhelmi, studied natural sciences and mathematics at the University of Göttingen and in Munich from 1905 to 1910 . He produced in Göttingen under Gustav Tammann his dissertation on the influence of the pressure on the electrolytic conductivity of solutions to, with whom he in 1909 to Dr. phil. received his doctorate. He remained Tammann's assistant until the outbreak of war in 1914.

During the First World War , Körber was deployed to the front as a reserve lieutenant. In 1917 he was commanded from the Eastern Front to serve at the technical committee VI of the Kaiser Wilhelm Foundation for war engineering under the chairman Fritz Wüst , director of the iron and steel institute of the RWTH Aachen . At the same time, he became a lecturer in physical metallurgy at Wüst at RWTH. After his habilitation , he taught there as a private lecturer from January 2, 1924 .

In 1920, Körber became head of the mechanical and technological department of the new Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Iron Research in Düsseldorf , which was headed by Wüst . After Wüst's resignation from the management of the institute, Körber became director of this institute on January 1, 1923 at Wüst's suggestion, which he headed until his death.

Under Körber, investigations were carried out in the entire iron and steel industry from ore processing and iron smelting to further processing. His own work focused on the mechanical properties and the malleable transformation of metals . He presented the results of his work on lecture tours to the USA and Japan .

Körber married Nora Schumacher (* 1897) in Berlin in 1920 , daughter of the chemist and ironworks engineer Dr. Wilhelm Schumacher (1863–1939), with whom he had 1 son and 2 daughters. From 1937 until his death, Körber was a member of the Senate of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society .

Awards and honors

Honorary doctorate from the TH Dresden in 1928
Honorary professor at RWTHTH Aachen University in 1929
Corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences in 1938
Corresponding member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , Class of Technical Sciences
Sven Rinman Medal of the Jernkontoret 1937
Gold Honda Medal from Nippon Kinzoku Gakkai (Japanese Metal Institute) 1941

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Web links

Literature by and about Friedrich Körber in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Max Planck Institute for Iron Research - 10 Years of Iron Research 1945-1954 . Verlag Stahleisen mbH, Düsseldorf 1955, p. 5ff.
^ Max Planck Institute for Iron Research Düsseldorf . Max Planck Society reports and communications 5/93, publisher Max Planck Society, Munich 1993, 116 pp.
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 135.

personal data
SURNAME	Koerber, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 1, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH	July 30, 1944
Place of death	Goettingen

[1] Max Planck Institute for Iron Research - 10 Years of Iron Research 1945-1954 . Verlag Stahleisen mbH, Düsseldorf 1955, p. 5ff.

[2] Max Planck Institute for Iron Research Düsseldorf . Max Planck Society reports and communications 5/93, publisher Max Planck Society, Munich 1993, 116 pp.

[3] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 135.