Friedrich Schwerd
Friedrich Magnus Schwerd (born June 13, 1872 in Karlsruhe ; † August 3, 1953 in Munich ) was a German mechanical engineer, production technician and university lecturer at the TH Hannover . He invented the German steel helmet in 1915/16 during the First World War .
Life
Schwerd graduated from high school in Karlsruhe and studied in Lausanne and at the Technical University of Munich until he graduated as an engineer in 1896. He started at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg, headed the test station at the Deutz AG gas engine factory in Cologne and then became department head in the Cast steel factory Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen. From 1906 he was the technical manager of the grinding machine factory Naxos-Union in Frankfurt / M. In 1911 he took over the chair for machine tools and factory organization at the TH Hannover, which he held until his retirement in 1937. He established the between engineering andBusiness administration and manufacturing technology based in Germany.
During the First World War he served as a captain in the artillery and was given the task of developing a steel helmet instead of the usual spiked hood . Together with the surgeon August Bier , he developed a model that was supposed to protect the neck, eyes and temples in addition to the skull.
In 1925 he began a special lecture on production and, with funding from the state and industry, expanded the Hanoverian test field to the largest of its time. The radio-optical test system developed by Schwerd for the investigation of chip formation in motion became famous . This was achieved with exposure times of 0.2 milliseconds. In November 1933, Schwerd signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . In 1935 he received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Wroclaw , and in 1952 on the occasion of his 80th birthday he became an honorary citizen of the TH Hannover.
He is the grandson of geodesist Friedrich Magnus Schwerd and the grandfather of Professor of Forensic Medicine Wolfgang Schwerd .
Fonts
- Cutting machine tools: basics and constructions. A textbook. Springer, Berlin a. a. 1956, ISBN 978-3-642-49058-3 .
literature
- Rita Seidel: Otto Kienzle - systematic of production technology: an engineer on a train through time. Hanser, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-43033-4 .
- Steel helmets from the First World War to the present: Friedrich Schwerd, the designer of the German steel helmet, in memory. Special exhibition in the Bavarian Army Museum Ingolstadt, 1984.
- Hans Kurt Tönshoff: Friedrich Schwerd. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 72 ( digitized version ).
- TH Hannover (ed.): Catalogus Professorum. The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831–1856 , Hanover: Technical University of 1956, pp. 165–166.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ O. Kienzle: Friedrich Schwerd † . In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers . tape 95 , no. 31 , November 1, 1953, p. 1059 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwerd, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schwerd, Friedrich Magnus (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mechanical engineer and university lecturer at the TH Hannover |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd August 1953 |
| Place of death | Munich |