Georg Schmidt (electrical engineer)

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Georg Schmidt (born April 2, 1871 in Ulm ; † March 13, 1955 in Ilmenau ) was a German electrical engineering professor and from 1903 to 1948 rector of the Thuringian technical center, the predecessor of the Technical University of Ilmenau . In order to distinguish himself from the authors of the same name, Schmidt published, partly under the name Georg Schmidt-Ulm , based on his native city.

Life

Schmidt was born in 1871 as the eighth son of the city gardener of Ulm. A scholarship from the Wilhelm Foundation of the City of Ulm enabled him to study mechanical engineering and electrical engineering at the Technical University of Hanover from 1890 to 1894 . At the beginning of his studies he became a member of the Corps Hannovera . In 1894 he came to Ilmenau, where Eduard Jentzen was just initiating the establishment of the Thuringian technical center. Schmidt became the deputy rector of the technical center. When Jentzen withdrew from the technical center on October 1, 1903 for health reasons, Schmidt, then 32, became the rector of the facility. On December 24, 1908, Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst von awardedSachsen-Weimar-Eisenach Schmidt became a professor.

The previously privately run university was nationalized on October 1, 1945. Since Schmidt was neither a member of the NSDAP nor had he benefited from the war, the SMAD could not expropriate him. The city bought the technical center from him for 260,000 Reichsmarks. The technical center was then reopened on October 23, 1945 as the Ilmenau Municipal Engineering School and Schmidt was again appointed rector. On May 7, 1947, the engineering school was placed under state control and the sales contract between the city administration and Schmidt was declared null and void by the SMAD; Schmidt was asked to reimburse the purchase price. After the SED and the SMAD increasingly defamed Schmidt , he resigned from his office at the end of 1948.

In addition to working at the technical center, Schmidt was also involved as the founder of the Association of Higher Technical Educational Institutions in Germany and as chairman of the Erfurt district association of the Association of German Engineers (1913–1933). Schmidt was also active for the German Committee for Technical Schools .

Schmidt died in Ilmenau in 1955 at the age of 83. His grave is in the Ilmenau cemetery .

On February 1, 1946, Wilhelmstrasse in Ilmenau was renamed Professor-Schmidt-Strasse . In 1953 it was renamed Straße der Junge Techniker and in 1991 it was renamed Professor-Schmidt-Straße again. In addition, the inner-city campus of the TU Ilmenau in Weimarer Strasse is called the Georg-Schmidt-Technikum .

Works

  • The mode of operation, calculation and construction of the direct current dynamo machines and generators. Ilmenau 1897. (subsequently appeared in seven editions)

literature

  • Peter Jacobs, Wolfgang Prast: Ilmenau should live ... Meditec-Verlag, Wehrheim (Taunus) 1994, ISBN 3-924373-11-6 .
  • Franz Rittig: Engineers from Ilmenau . ad-rem-Verlag, Ilmenau 1994, ISBN 3-930570-00-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1866–1966, Corps Hannovera at the Technical University of Hanover. 1966, p. 91.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt-Ulm, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German electrical engineer, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1955
Place of death Ilmenau