Fritz Kesselring
Fritz Kesselring (born November 27, 1897 on the Schlossgut Bachtobel near Weinfelden , † July 14, 1977 ) was a Swiss electrical engineer.
Life
After finishing school in Frauenfeld, he studied electrical engineering at the ETH Zurich . As an assistant to Prof. Kuhlmann, he obtained his doctorate there in 1922 with the thesis theoretical and experimental investigations on rotating rectifiers .
After a job in Frankfurt, he soon moved to the Berlin company Dr. Paul Meyer, where in 1925 he took slow-motion pictures at a glass oil switch . Then the Siemens-Schuckert-Werke recruited him . Because classic, oil-filled switches could explode, he developed the expansion switch there from 1927 to 1931 , which uses water as a cooling medium.
He was also involved in the development of the contact converter. In 1942 he became head of the switchgear department. Because of the Second World War, the family moved back to Switzerland, where he worked at Albiswerk in Zurich, first as head of the development department, then as technical director.
At the end of the 1950s, the Siemens research laboratory was established under his leadership in Fahrweid in the Dietikon district .
In 1963 the TU Berlin awarded him the Dr. Ing. E. h. In 1967 he was awarded the Grashof Memorial Medal from the Association of German Engineers .
Since 1979, the VDI Society for Product and Process Design (formerly: Development, Design, Sales) of the VDI has been awarding the Fritz Kesselring Medal of Honor for special services in the fields of gear technology, design or vibration technology.
Works
- The elements of switchgear design ; Sir I. Pitman & sons, Ltd., 1932
- Theoretical basics for calculating the switching devices ; De Gruyter, 1968
- Technical composition theory ; Berlin, Springer, 1954
- Morphological-analytical construction method ; VDI magazine 97, 1955, p. 327ff.
- Construction methodology ; in Progressive Operations Management, Vol. 17, 1968, pp. 111-117.
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz Kesselring in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Fritz Kesselring at Open Library
- Short biography on the website electrosuisse.ch (PDF; 29 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Fritz Kesselring Medal of Honor. Association of German Engineers , accessed on February 6, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kesselring, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss electrical engineer who developed the expansion switch |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Weinfelden |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 1977 |