Fritz Rausenberger

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Fritz Rausenberger photographed by Alfred Grohs

Friedrich or Fritz Rausenberger (born February 13, 1868 in Frankfurt am Main , † April 28, 1926 in Munich ) was a weapons technician.

Life

He studied mathematics and natural sciences in Munich in 1886/87, then joined the Royal Saxon Foot Artillery Regiment No. 12 in Metz as a flag junior and attended the Hanover War School. 1890–92 he studied higher mathematics, ballistics and artillery design at the United Artillery and Engineering School in Charlottenburg , and from 1893–96 mechanical engineering at the TH Charlottenburg .

At Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen, he became a designer in the artillery department under director Max Dreger (1852–1929). In 1901 he became assistant to the board of directors, and in 1904 he received power of attorney . At the suggestion of Alfred von Schlieffen , from 1904 he developed the Dicke Bertha , which was completed in 1914.

Around 1905 he was appointed by the Prussian military authorities as a teacher and professor for weapon design at the new Military Technical Academy in Berlin-Charlottenburg, from which he returned in 1906.

In 1907 he became deputy director and in July 1910, after Dreger's resignation and the division of the department in two, Rausenberger and Rudolf Hartwig (1867-1924) were appointed directors.

He constructed pipes and anti-tank shells for the Navy and the first German disappearance carriage (which was declared obsolete by the British Army in 1912). In 1907 he wrote the standard work Theory of Recoil Guns .

When, in the autumn of 1914, the Supreme Army Command was considering how to bombard the English port of Dover from the French Channel coast and sent a request to Krupp, Rausenberger suggested a low-drag hood projectile . During the first tests in Meppen , the projectile flew further than expected because the decrease in air resistance at high altitudes had not been taken into account. With his assistant Otto von Eberhard he subsequently developed the Paris gun .

After he retired in 1920, he was appointed to the supervisory board of Krupp AG the following year.

literature

  • Uwe Kessler: On the history of management at Krupp. From the beginning of the company to the dissolution of Fried. Krupp AG (1811-1943) . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-515-06486-9 .

swell

  1. ^ Heinfried Voss:  Rausenberger, Friedrich (Fritz) Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 213 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Dreger, Max in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon
  3. ^ H. Schardin: Otto von Eberhard in memory . In: The natural sciences . tape 29 , no. January 2 , 1941, p. 17-18 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01543088 .
  4. ↑ FL18 - Frontline18 - The “Paris Guns”

literature

personal data
SURNAME Rausenberger, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rausenberger, Friedrich Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German weapons technician
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1926
Place of death Munich