Hanns Günther

Hanns Günther , actually Walter de Haas (born Walter Siede ) (* 1886 ; † 1969 ), was a German author , translator and editor of popular science books.

Life

Walter Siede was already using the author's name Hanns Günther in 1911 . Because of a criminal record and to avoid being drafted into the military, he emigrated to Switzerland and took the name de Haas . He settled in Zurich and continued to write under his pseudonym Hanns Günther .

In 1912 he began to publish electrotechnical introductions in Franckh'schen Verlagshandlung and the popular science Kosmos series. His books are still regarded today as a reference for the connection between accuracy and comprehensibility.

His book In a Hundred Years - The Future Energy Supply of the World, which was published in 1931 by the Society of Friends of Nature , is still regarded as important today . In this book he propagated geothermal power plants with regard to the finiteness of coal reserves (this type already existed in Italy at that time) and the types of power plant, updraft power plant , wave power plant and tidal power plant , which had not been realized anywhere until then .

His work Das Buch von der Eisenbahn (The Book of the Railroad) from 1927 is also sought because the rail technology that was current at the time still fascinates rail enthusiasts interested in history today. The book covers all topics, from basic physics to the technology of vehicles, rail routes and signals to railway structures and questions relating to the timetable.

Works

author

(no year) HG: The young experimental artist - physical experiments , Verlag E. Rister, Nuremberg; 111 pages
(no year) HG: The young experimental artist - chats about chemistry , Verlag E. Rister, Nuremberg; 108 pages
(no year) HG: The young experimental artist - experiments with electricity , Verlag E. Rister, Nuremberg; 108 pages
(1911–1913) HG: How our machines work , series in four volumes:
- Volume I: Elements and Electrochemistry , Publishing House of Technical Monthly Issues, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 88 pages
- Volume II: Telegraphy and Telephony , Publishing House of Technical Monthly Issues, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 112 pages
- Volume III: Dynamo machines and electric motors , publisher of the technical monthly books, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 104 pages
- Volume IV: Electric Light a. a. , Publisher of the technical monthly books, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 128 pages
(1917) FA Collins, HG: Flight machine book for boys , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 240 pages
(1917) HG and MU Schoop: The Schoop metal spraying process - its development and application , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 266 pages
(1919) HG: Elektrotechnik für Alle - A popular presentation of the theory of electrical current and modern electrical engineering , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 318 pages
- third new edition of the former four-volume work The electric current
(1920) HG: From Electricity - Introduction to Electrical Engineering , Rascher & Cie A.-G. Publishing house, Zurich; 112 pages
(1921) HG: Radiotechnik - The realm of electric waves , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 78 pages
(1921) HG: Wellentelegraphie , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, 1. – 5. Edition, first to ten thousand, 112 pages
- (1924) HG: Wave telegraphy - a radio technical internship , Franckhs Technischer Verlag Dieck & Co, Stuttgart
- from the twentieth edition: The radio book (radio book) - An introduction to wave telegraphy and telephony for everyone , Franckh's Technischer Verlag Dieck & Co, Stuttgart; 254 pages
(1922) HG: Chemistry for boys - an experiment and reading book authorized free editing after JH Fabre, "Chimie de l'oncle Paul", Rascher & Cie A.-G. Publishing house, Zurich; two volumes; 264 + 254 pages
(1922) HG: Experiment book for boys Experiments from mechanics, experiments with static electricity, magic arts and sleight of hand, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 220 pages
(1922) HG: Technical Dreams , Rascher & Cie A.-G. Publishing house, Zurich; 83 pages
(1923) HG: What some don't know - The book of superlatives , Rascher & Cie A.-G. Publishing house, Zurich; 80 pages
(1924) HG and Franz Fuchs: The practical radio amateur - The ABC of radio sports for practical use for everyone , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 419 pages
(1924) HG and Hans Vatter: Handicraft book for radio amateurs - instructions for making all individual parts for radio receivers , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 224 pages
(1924) HG: Circuit book for radio amateurs - fifty tried and tested radio circuits for self-production of receivers and amplifiers from individual parts for sale , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 150 pages
(1925) HG: The way of iron from ore to steel - a technical picture book , Dieck & Co. (Franckh's Technischer Verlag), Stuttgart; 110 pages
(1924) HG: The second circuit book - fifty tried and tested radio circuits for self-production of receivers and amplifiers from individual parts for sale , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 166 pages
(1926) HG: Pioneers of Radio Technology - 24 Pictures of Life , Dieck & Co. (Franckh's Technischer Verlag), Stuttgart; 80 pages
(1926) HG: Radio for Beginners - An experiment and craft book , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 214 pages
(1926) HG: Physik für Alle - Volume 1: Das Reich der Mechanik , Dieck & Co. (Franckh's Technischer Verlag), Stuttgart; 393 pages
(1927) HG: Physics for All - Volume 2: Sound / Heat / Light , Dieck & Co. (Franckh's Technischer Verlag), Stuttgart; 327 pages
(1927) HG: Starkstromversuche - An experiment and handicraft book as an introduction to electrical engineering , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 225 pages
(1927) HG: What is magnetism? , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 78 pages
(1927) HG: The Book of the Railway - Your Becoming and Being. Telling the youth and the people , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 274 pages
- Today reprint by GeraMond Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7654-7317-3
(1927) HG: From the technical wonder world - technical chats , Rascher & Cie A.-G. Publishing house, Zurich and Leipzig; 168 pages
(1928) HG: The conquest of the deep cosmos, Society of Friends of Nature, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 79 pages
(1929) HG and Paul Hirsch: The practical model airplane with the collaboration of Fritz Thiele, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart
(1929) HG: Gold on the Street - What can be made from waste materials , Dieck & Co. (Franckh's Technischer Verlag), Stuttgart; 80 pages
(1929) Technical beauty: 64 pictures introduced and explained by Hanns Günther , Orell Füssli Schaubuch
(1931) HG: Im Reiche Röntgen - An introduction to X-ray technology presented in a generally understandable manner , Kosmos, Gesellschaft der Naturfreunde, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 80 pages
(1931) HG: In One Hundred Years - The Future Energy Supply of the World , Kosmos, Society of Friends of Nature, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 78 pages
(1932) HG: Now I'm building a receiver - A book for old and young hobbyists , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 68 pages
(1939) HG and Heinz Richter : School of the radio technician - an auxiliary book for the profession with special consideration of radio technology , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; three volumes 324 + 334 + 257 pages
(1943) HG and Heinz Richter: Lexicon of radio technology and its border areas - with special consideration of radio technology , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 544 pages

HG and R. Hell: Antenne und Erde Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart
HG, H. Kröncke, F. Herkenrath: Tables and formulas for radio amateurs , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart
HG and C. Culatti: Who gives? - The radio stations of the world , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart
HG: Five-language dictionary for radio amateurs , Dieck & Co publishing house, Stuttgart
HG: Lexicon of the entire radio technology , Dieck & Co publishing house, Stuttgart

Translations, edits

(1911/1912) K. Smalian, edited by HG: In my leisure hours - Scientific suggestions and communications for our youth III. Year, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 200 pages
(1912) HG: Electrical engineering for boys , Authorized German version based on “Harper's Electricity Book for Boys” (Joseph H. Adams, 1907), Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; First volume 216 pages
(1914) HG: France at work - pictures from French economic life by Victor Cambon Engineer des Arts et Manufactures Authorized German adaptation by Hanns Günther, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 104 pages
(1915) HG: Through Belgium - Wanderings of an engineer before the war to J. Izart, La Belgique au travail and other sources edited by Hanns Günther, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 191 pages
(1919) HG: What is electricity? - Stories of an electron Authorized free adaptation according to Ch. R. Gibson "Autobiography of an electron", Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 101 pages
(1919) HG: Small electrical engineering for boys - A guide to building electr. Apparatus and Instruments and to understand their mode of operation using Joseph H. Adams "Harpers Electricity for Boys", Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 240 pages
- the book was continued after many editions from 1948 by Heinz Richter under the title Electrical engineering for boys , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart.
(1920) HG: Electrotechnical handicraft book (large electrical engineering for boys) with authorized use of "Harpers Electricity for Boys", Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; two volumes 227 + 258 pages;
(1922) HG: The installation of electrical bell systems - for electrical installers and for personal use based on a manuscript by Eugen Hager, mechanic, Romanshorn, freely edited by Hanns Günther, Franckhs Technischer Verlag Dieck & Co, Stuttgart; 56 pages
(1928) HG: In the interior of the atom authorized German adaptation after John Mills, "Within the Atom", Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig; 206 pages

Editing

(1915) HG (Hrsg.): Jahrbuch der Technik (special edition of "Technik für Alle") - 1st year , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 392 pages
(1916) HG (Hrsg.): Jahrbuch der Technik (special edition of "Technik für Alle") - 2nd year , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 376 pages
(1917) HG (Hrsg.): Jahrbuch der Technik (special edition of "Technik für Alle") - 3rd year , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 382 pages
(1918) HG (Ed.): Holiday book for boys in two volumes, with the collaboration of Hermann Emch, Prof. August Forel, Hans Friedrich, Heinrich Meyer, H. Noll-Tobler, Max Oettli , P. Steinmann; Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 160 + 152 pages
(1921) HG (Hrsg.): Miracles in us - A book about the human body for everyone , with the collaboration of Herm. Dekker, Fritz Kahn, Ad. Koelsch, CL Schleich; Rascher & Cie A.-G. Publishing house, Zurich; 381 pages
(1923) HG (Hrsg.): Taten der Technik - A book of our time first volume, in connection with Artur Fürst, E. Lasswitz, L. Richtera, N. Stern, P. Schuster; Rascher & Cie A.-G. Publishing house, Zurich; 323 pages
(1924) HG: What do I do? - An employment book , with the collaboration of W. Brunner, O. Kuhfahl, F. Stäger and Hans Vatter; Rascher & Cie A.-G. Publishing house, Zurich; 259 pages
(1924) HG (Hrsg.): Die Weite Welt - A book of travel and adventure, inventions and discoveries with the collaboration of Leonhard Adelt, WW Bechtle, W. Brunner, Friedo Devens, Heinrich Göhring, H. Hauri, Adolf Koelsch, E Lasswitz, H. Meyer, Carl W. Neumann, Colin Ross, F. Saxer, P. Schuster, W. Schweisheimer, Hans Vatter and privy councilor Wernekke; Rascher & Cie A.-G. Publishing house, Zurich
(1925) HG (ed.): How do I acquire a test permit - Ein Hand- u. Auxiliary book for radio amateurs , with the collaboration of Friedrich Dencker; Franz Fuchs; P. Lertes [and a.], Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart; 1925
(1935) HG (co-editor and editor): Handbuch der Funk-Technik , Hanns Günther, M. v. Ardenne and others, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung Stuttgart 1935, first volume, 226 + 10 pages
(1937) HG (co-editor and editor): Handbuch der Funk-Technik , Hanns Günther, M. v. Ardenne and others, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung Stuttgart 1937, second volume, 217 + 12 pages
1938: The Big TV Book, the development of television from the basics to the present day . Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung Stuttgart

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Rudolf Grabau: The Franckh-Verlag with its author Hanns Günther In: Funkgeschichte . No. 179 (2008), pp. 88-89, ( PDF file ).
^ Helmut Hilz, Georg Schwedt: For amusement and instruction - experiment books from two centuries , Deutsches Museum, GNT Verlag, ISBN 3-928186-64-7 .
↑ Review - Paul Waldner: Fundamentals of electrical engineering and electronics , 460 p., Werner-Verlag 1999, DM 86.-
↑ Kai-Uwe Scholz: The bound cyclone . In: The Rheinpfalz on Sunday . February 10, 2008, page 19
↑ Review of: In a Hundred Years - The Future Energy Supply of the World
^ Hanns Günther: The book of the railroad. GeraMond Verlag, Munich 2006 (reprint from 1927), ISBN 3-7654-7317-0 .
^ First edition Heinz Richter 1948. Retrieved on May 4, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Günther, Hanns
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Haas, Walter de (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author, translator and editor of popular science books
DATE OF BIRTH	1886
DATE OF DEATH	1969

[”grabau”-1] A ^b Rudolf Grabau: The Franckh-Verlag with its author Hanns Günther In: Funkgeschichte . No. 179 (2008), pp. 88-89, ( PDF file ).

[2] Helmut Hilz, Georg Schwedt: For amusement and instruction - experiment books from two centuries , Deutsches Museum, GNT Verlag, ISBN 3-928186-64-7 .

[3] Review - Paul Waldner: Fundamentals of electrical engineering and electronics , 460 p., Werner-Verlag 1999, DM 86.-

[4] Kai-Uwe Scholz: The bound cyclone . In: The Rheinpfalz on Sunday . February 10, 2008, page 19

[5] Review of: In a Hundred Years - The Future Energy Supply of the World

[6] Hanns Günther: The book of the railroad. GeraMond Verlag, Munich 2006 (reprint from 1927), ISBN 3-7654-7317-0 .

[7] First edition Heinz Richter 1948. Retrieved on May 4, 2018 .