Georg Weinblum

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Paul Georg Weinblum (born January 10 . Jul / 22. January  1897 greg. In New Kalzenau , Livonia , † 4. April 1974 in Hamburg ) was a Baltic German engineering , shipbuilding researchers and university teachers .

Life

Weinblum was the son of the chief forester Karl Weinblum. He attended high schools in Wenden and St. Petersburg, where he graduated from high school in 1914. He first studied shipbuilding in Saint Petersburg , where he got to know the work of Bubnows , Krylov and Tymoshenko . After an interruption due to the October Revolution and service in the Baltic State Armed Forces , he later continued his studies at the Technical University of Danzig , where he also completed his studies in 1923 as a graduate engineer. He became a member of the German-Baltic Corps Rubonia . After completing his studies, he was assistant for ship theory and design at the Technical University of Danzig from 1923 to 1929 . There he became a Dr.-Ing. PhD . From 1929 to 1938 Weinblum worked as a research engineer at the Prussian Research Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Shipbuilding in Berlin . In 1931 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Charlottenburg . In 1934 he became a private lecturer , then in 1936 an adjunct professor at the TH Charlottenburg.

In 1934 he married the concert singer Gisela Thiess .

From 1938 to 1943 Weinblum was head of research and director at Gebr. Sachsenberg AG in Dessau-Roßlau , Berlin and Harburg . In 1943 he returned to the TH Danzig as a full professor of ship theory.

After the Second World War he first worked for the Admiralty in England , then from 1948 to 1952 he worked as a scientific advisor at the David Taylor Model Basin in Washington, DC (USA). In 1952 Weinblum returned to Germany after he had been appointed full professor and director of the Institute for Shipbuilding at the University of Hamburg . At the same time, in 1952, he was given a teaching position for the subject "Resistance of Ships" at the Technical University of Hanover . In 1953 he became an honorary professor . As an internationally recognized expert in shipbuilding research, he worked here after his retirement in 1962 until his death.

Honors

On November 19, 1960 he was awarded a Dr.-Ing. E. h. and in 1972 he received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Vienna . Weinblum was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1973 . The “Georg Weinblum Foundation” is named after him. It was founded in 1978 in Germany and the USA in memory of the well-known shipbuilding researcher. In his memory, a renowned ship hydrodynamicist holds a lecture every year in order to promote international cooperation in the spirit of Weinblum. From 1963 he was a corresponding member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society . A few weeks before his death, he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences .

literature

  • Georg Weinblum , In: Shipbuilding Society: 100 Years Shipbuilding Society - Biographies on the History of Shipbuilding , Springer, Berlin, 1999, ISBN 3-540-64150-5 , pp. 529/530.
  • Willibald Reichertz: East Germans as lecturers at the Technical University of Hanover (1831–1956) . In: "Ostdeutsche Familienkunde", Volume 55, Issue 3/2007, pp. 109–120

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of the municipality of Kalzenau (Latvian: Kalsnava )
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr.-Ing. Georg Weinblum - 60 years . In: Ship and Harbor . Volume 9, Issue 1. CDC Heydorns, Hamburg January 1957, p. 67 .
  3. ↑ The Baltic Ph! Ph! Addresses 1973, p. 76.
  4. ↑ TU Wien: Honorary doctorates ( memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 26, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tuwien.ac.at
  5. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 85, May 8, 1973.
  6. ^ List of former members since 1666: Letter W. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 14, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Weinblum, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weinblum, Paul Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic engineer, shipbuilding researcher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Neu-Kalzenau , Livonia
DATE OF DEATH April 4th 1974
Place of death Hanover , Lower Saxony