Friedrich Niethammer (mechanical engineer)

Friedrich Niethammer (born March 3, 1874 in Ilsfeld , † August 29, 1947 in Korntal ) was a German mechanical engineer. From 1918 until the end of the Second World War he was rector of the German Technical University in Prague.

Life

Niethammer was born in Ilsfeld in 1874. The father was a farmer originally from the area around Nagold, the mother came from long-established Ilsfeld families. After attending the Technical University in Stuttgart , Niethammer received his doctorate in philosophy at the Polytechnic in Zurich in 1898 . He then worked in Berlin at Siemens & Halske and Union-Elektrizitätsgesellschaft , where he quickly rose to become chief electrician. From 1902 he was a professor at the German Technical University in Brno . In 1916 he moved to the German Technical University in Prague , its rectorhe was in 1918. He published numerous papers and textbooks on his research areas, including on direct current and alternating current machines, apparatus engineering, the nature and structure of the voltage factor in alternating current machines, zigzag scattering, and single-phase and multi-phase alternating current accumulators. After the Second World War, Niethammer was interned with his family , where his wife and mother-in-law were killed. Niethammer moved with his daughter Anneliese Niethammer to Korntal, where he wrote an electrical engineering textbook and continued teaching at the Technical University of Stuttgart before he died in 1947. In his home town of Ilsfeld, the Niethammer-Weg is named after him today.

literature

• Eugen Härle : Prof. Dr. Fritz Niethammer (1874-1947) . In: Ilsfeld in past and present. A home book for Ilsfeld, Auenstein and Schozach . Ilsfeld municipality, Ilsfeld 1989

Web links

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