Günther Kempf

Günther Kempf (born February 11, 1885 in Berlin , † August 24, 1961 in Hamburg ) was a German shipbuilding engineer whose main focus was on the hydrodynamics of ships.

Life

Günther Kempf was born in Berlin in 1885 and began an apprenticeship at the Jos. Shipyard in Papenburg after attending school . L. Meyer , who followed an internship as a naval construction team on board the Stein school ship . In 1905, Kempf took a course at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg . After his diploma in 1909, Kempf took over the management of the shipbuilding research institute at the Übigau shipyard from Friedrich Gebers in 1910 . In 1911, Kempf received his doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden on the subject of flow and some energy losses in the propeller . Kempf's work led to a sometimes harsh reply from Gebers, whose 1910 lecture on his experiments in Übigau was also critically examined by Kempf. As early as 1911, Kempf switched to the technical training institutes in Hamburg as a teacher, where he stayed at the torpedo research institute in Kiel for eleven years, with an interruption due to military service. In 1922, Kempf was appointed director of the Hamburg Shipbuilding Research Institute (HSVA) as the successor to Carl Bruckhoff . In 1930, Kempf was awarded the silver medal of the Shipbuilding Society and in 1942 he was appointed professor. It was Kempf's particular merit during the 33 years under his leadership to have greatly expanded the HSVA and its facilities before the Second World War and, after the destruction of the war, brought them back to their previous efficiency in a short time.

During his life, Kempf wrote books and specialist articles, for example in the magazines Werft Reederei Hafen . He has also been involved in teaching for years with specialist lectures. He established financially important connections to the maritime industry and in 1932 founded an international collaboration with other heads of shipbuilding research institutes from which the International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC) later emerged with a slightly different structure .

Kempf died on August 24, 1961 in Hamburg.

Fonts (selection)

• Jet pressure and suction measurements , In: Yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society , J. Springer, Berlin, 1916
• New results of resistance research , In: Werft, Reederei, Hafen , 1929
• Hydromechanical problems of ship propulsion , self-published by HSVA, Hamburg, 1932
• The progress of shipbuilding technology , self-published by the Central Association for German Inland Shipping, Berlin, 1936
• The stability stress of ships due to waves and vibrations , J. Springer, Berlin, 1938
• The development of the shipbuilding test system since the turn of the century with special consideration of the German institutes and the 25th anniversary of the Hamburgische Schiffbau-Versuchsanstalt , J. Springer, Berlin, 1939.

literature

• Günther Kempf , In: Shipbuilding Society: 100 Years Shipbuilding Society - Biographies on the History of Shipbuilding , Springer, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-540-64150-5 , pp. 217/218.