Georg Mierdel
Georg Otto Richard Mierdel (born March 5, 1899 in Rathenow ; † June 29, 1987 in Dresden ) was a German electrical engineer , physicist and university professor .
Life
Georg Mierdel was born in Rathenow in Brandenburg in 1899 as the son of the businessman and mill director Franz Mierdel and his wife Margarethe Erbe. From 1917 to 1919 he studied mathematics, biology and physics in Marburg and from 1919 to 1921 in Greifswald, among others with Johannes Stark and Rudolf Seeliger, physics and mathematics as well as zoology and music. Georg Mierdel received his doctorate in physics in 1920 with his work Experimental Investigations of the Excitation Functions and then worked as an assistant at the Physics Institute of the University of Greifswald. From 1928, the year of his habilitation on the subject of "artificial atomic destruction", he also worked as a private lecturer in Greifswald. From 1930 until the end of World War II , he worked at Siemens & Schuckert in Berlin as a laboratory manager in the field of physics and technology of gas discharges.
In 1938 he was appointed associate professor for gas discharge technology at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg . After the end of the Second World War, Georg Mierdel initially worked in industry in Czechoslovakia and in 1953 became deputy director of the Institute for Gas Discharge Physics of the German Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Greifswald. In September of the same year he went to Dresden and worked from then on as professor for theoretical electrical engineering with rectifier and until 1957 as director of the institute for general electrical engineering at the faculty of electrical engineering at the technical university there . Here he introduced new research areas such as semiconductor physics, atomic physics and control engineering into the curriculum of the institute and was elected Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in 1956. In 1961 he was awarded the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit . In 1962 Georg Mierdel received the GDR National Prize , two years later he retired and died in Dresden in 1987. His grave is in the Outer Plauen cemetery in Dresden.
Since 1993 the building of the institute for semiconductor and microsystem technology of the faculty of electrical engineering of the TU Dresden has been named Mierdel-Bau.
Fonts
- The electric current in a high vacuum and in gases (1943)
- Theoretical electrical engineering exercises (1959)
- Selenium rectifier (1959)
- Electrical Engineering Handbook (1963)
- Electrophysics (1968)
- What is plasma (1973)
literature
- Wolfgang Mathis: Mierdel, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 477 ( digitized version ).
- Technical University of Dresden: buildings and names . Technical University of Dresden, Dresden 1997, p. 40f.
- Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors 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 3-412-02503-8 .
- Short biography for: Mierdel, Georg . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Mierdel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Portrait of Georg Mierdels and short biography
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany , October 10, 1961, p. 2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mierdel, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mierdel, Georg Otto Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist, electrical engineer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rathenow |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1987 |
| Place of death | Dresden |