Georg Beck (mechanical engineer)

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Georg Beck

Georg Beck (born January 28, 1901 in Westgaste (North, East Friesland) ; † November 4, 1943 in Zeuthen ) was Professor of Automotive Engineering and Light Engine Science at the Technical University of Dresden .

Life

Beck studied mechanical engineering at the Technical Universities of Darmstadt and Hanover and in 1919 became a member of the Darmstadt fraternity Frisia . From May 26 to July 23, 1921 he joined the Freikorps Oberland to fight the uprisings in Upper Silesia near St. Annaberg in Kalinów . From 1919 to 1925 he was a member of the Young German Order . He received his degree in mechanical engineering in 1929 and his doctorate in 1935.

Beck became a member of the NSDAP in 1931. From 1933 to 1936 he headed the test center of the Heereswaffenamt for motor vehicles in Kummersdorf . From October 1, 1936, he taught as a full professor for automotive engineering and light engine technology at the Technical University of Dresden . There he acted from 1937 to 1941 as the Lecturer League Leader, became Vice-Rector of the TH Dresden in 1937 and was the Saxon Gaudozenten League Leader from 1939. In 1940/1941 he took over the management of the Dresden working group for the Peenemünde project . His research on the injection system on unit 4 provided the Army Weapons Office with new knowledge. From 1941 he was head of the four-year plan institute for automotive engineering at the TU Berlin-Charlottenburg . He died on November 4, 1943 in a car accident near Zeuthen .

Awards

Works

  • To implement in technical flame. Dissertation, VDI-Verlag, Berlin 1935

literature

  • Uwe Fraunholz, Swen Steinberg, Stefan Beckert, Florian Eichkorn, Ulrike Marlow, Stefan Weise: [With] Made? Technologist and natural scientist at the TH Dresden under National Socialism. Dresden (Collaborative Research Center 804) 2012, p. 34, ISBN 978-3-86780-307-6
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 20.
  • Reiner Pommerin : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 1: History of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin, Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02303-5 .
  • Ralf Pulla: "Peenemünde Project". The TH Dresden in the network of German rocket research 1939 to 1945. In: Dresdner Universitätsjournal . 16/2002, p. 7 ( online as PDF ; 0.8 MB).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Georg Beck. In: portraits of professors. University archive of the Technical University of Dresden , February 15, 2013, accessed on March 7, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 25.
  3. ^ Karl Fertsch: The year 1921. In: History of the Darmstadt fraternity Frisia. Volume 2, self-published, Darmstadt 1960, p. 24.
  4. ↑ a b c Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 20.
  5. ^ Karl Fertsch: The year 1921. In: History of the Darmstadt fraternity Frisia. Volume 2, self-published, Darmstadt 1960, p. 29.
  6. ↑ Dissertations and Habilitations. University of Hanover, Institute for Technical Combustion, archived from the original on March 10, 2014 ; accessed on March 10, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Westgaste (North, East Frisia)
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1943
Place of death Zeuthen