Georg Brion

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Georg Gustav Alfred Brion (born March 28, 1873 in Strasbourg ; † June 15, 1950 ibid) was a German electrical engineer and professor at the Freiberg Mining Academy .

Life

Brion, the son of a French fortress builder , studied natural sciences at the universities of Leipzig and Strasbourg from 1891 to 1896 until he received his doctorate in 1896. In 1896/97 he studied electrical engineering at the Zurich Polytechnic , after which he worked from 1898 to 1911 at the electrical engineering institute of the TH Dresden . In 1907 the habilitation took place there . From 1911 to 1938 and 1947 to 1950 he taught as a full professor (since 1912) for electrical engineering at the Bergakademie Freiberg, and from 1912 to 1930 also as a professor of physics . From 1924 to 1926 he was the rector of the Bergakademie. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

Georg Brion comes directly from the same family as Friederike Brion .

Fonts

  • Experimental studies on the high-voltage arc , in: Zeitschrift für Elektrochemie, 1907,18 [= habilitation thesis]
  • Air nitrate. Its extraction through the electric flame arc , Göschen, Berlin 1912
  • Heavy current measuring technology , Springer, Berlin 1933

literature

  • DBE
  • Norman Pohl: The Bergakademie Freiberg under National Socialism , in: Günther Heydemann u. a. (Ed.): Saxony and National Socialism , Göttingen 2014, 251ff

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Speech by grandson Hans Georg Brion on founding the Forum Friederike Brion in 2010