Georg Oskar Schubert

Georg Oskar Schubert (born January 1, 1900 in Gablonz , Bohemia, † July 21, 1955 in Darmstadt ) was a German television technician.

Life

As the son of a businessman, he studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Dresden , where he was Heinrich Barkhausen's assistant and received his doctorate in engineering in 1925.

He then went to the Siemens & Halske development laboratory in Berlin , where he devoted himself to high-frequency image transmission.

In 1929, Baird Television Ltd., Bosch , Radio AG DS Loewe and Zeiss Ikon AG founded the television development and production company Fernseh AG in Berlin-Zehlendorf , to which Schubert switched on March 1, 1930 as head of development.

Since no electronic television cameras were available in Germany around 1930, he invented the intermediate film process in 1934 , in which the film exposed by a film camera was immediately developed and then electronically scanned. This made it possible for the first time to take pictures of television images from outside. The procedure was u. a. used at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

He also developed a "two-way telephone system" (video telephony ), which the Deutsche Reichspost also put into operation in 1936 in Berlin and other German cities.

During the Second World War he was a board member and managing director of what is now the television company and played a key role in the development of high-speed optical transmission for use in air defense. The television company was relocated to the Sudetengau , where he was captured by the Soviets in early 1945. He was trapped in Siberia, among other places, and was not released until the end of 1954.

Web links

• Georg Oskar Schubert's curriculum vitae in the Lexicon of Siemensstadt in Berlin