Gustav Aeckerlein

Carl Friedrich Gustav Aeckerlein (born March 18, 1878 in Leipzig ; † January 27, 1965 in Freiberg ) was a German physicist and professor at the Freiberg Mining Academy .

Life

Aeckerlein studied in Leipzig, Strasbourg and Würzburg and became an assistant to Nobel Prize winner Ferdinand Braun at the University of Strasbourg . From 1928 to 1930 he taught as ao. Professor Radiumkunde and from 1930 to 1942 as a full professor of Physics and Radium Studies and as head of the Radium Institute of the Freiberg Mining Academy; he developed radioactive measuring methods to find water, ore and minerals in the soil. In this context, he was close to the German efforts for a nuclear weapon , but made no contributions to the so-called uranium project . He continued to teach as an emeritus until 1949 . In 1945, Friedrich Schumacher and Aeckerlein from Freiberg produced a study for the Soviet occupiers with a forecast of 90 t of uranium for Johanngeorgenstadt and around 20 t for Schneeberg as regions with the relatively best prospects for uranium mining for the construction of the Soviet atomic bomb . In 1948 the Soviets closed the Radium Institute.

In November 1933, Aeckerlein signed the German professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler . In 1958 he became an honorary senator of the Bergakademie .

Fonts

• On the atomization of galvanically glowing metals , Strasbourg 1902 (= dissertation)

literature

• Günther Heydemann u. a. (Ed.): Saxony and National Socialism , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-36964-7 .
• Rainer Karlsch , Zbynek Zema: Urangeheimnisse: Das Erzgebirge in the focus of world politics 1933-1960 , Links, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-86153-276-X (4th, reviewed edition, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-276-7 )

Web links

• Sachsel digital