Georg Dettmar
Georg Dettmar (born October 14, 1871 in Ohlau , Lower Silesia , † October 25, 1950 in Bückeburg ; full name Georg Max Richard Dettmar ) was a German engineer and university professor . He is considered to be the founder of the standardization of electrical machines .
Life
Dettmar joined the Elektrizitäts-AG (formerly W. Lahmeyer & Co.) in Frankfurt am Main as an engineer in 1891 and went to Niedersedlitz near Dresden with the same task in 1896 . In 1896 he became chief engineer at Gebrüder Körting in Linden near Hanover . From 1900 to 1905 he worked again in Frankfurt.
1916 and 1917 was Dettmar auxiliary referent in the Prussian War Ministry in Berlin , 1917-1920 Head of the Department of Electricity Reich Commissariat for the coal distribution. In 1918 he was awarded an honorary doctorate (as Dr.-Ing. E. h.).
From 1905 to 1921 Dettmar was general secretary of the Association of German Electrical Engineers in Berlin. In 1920 he came to the Electrotechnical Institute of the Technical University of Hanover as a full professor for electrical systems, electrical railways and electrical power transmission until his retirement on April 1, 1937.
At the time of the Weimar Republic , Dettmar, who was awarded an honorary doctorate, was the editor-in-chief for the specialist journal Der electrical operation from Heinrich-Heine-Platz 1 in Hanover . Journal of the Reich Association of Electricity Buyers eV
In 1928 he became a board member of the research institute for electrical heating technology he founded, and in 1930 he was a member of the China Study Commission of the Reich Association of German Industry . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .
literature
- Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hanover 1931, p. 86.
- Willibald Reichertz: East Germans as lecturers at the Technical University of Hanover (1831–1956). In: Ostdeutsche Familienkunde , Volume 55 (2007), pp. 109–120.
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Dettmar in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
- Martin Doppelbauer: The standardization of electrical machines ( Memento from October 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), biographical information (PDF file; 399 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Compare, for example, the head of the April 26, 1926 edition
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dettmar, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dettmar, Georg Max Richard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German electrical engineer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ohlau , Lower Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 1950 |
| Place of death | Bückeburg , Schaumburg district, Lower Saxony |