Hans Goerges
Hans (Johannes) Friedrich Heinrich Görges (born September 21, 1859 in Lüneburg , † October 7, 1946 in Aue ) was a German physicist.
Life
He studied mathematics and physics in Göttingen. In 1884 he became a designer at the Siemens factory in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Later as chief electrician he developed an alternating current meter. In 1891 he designed the series motor . He made studies on a single-phase induction motor. Around 1890 he lived at Derfflingerstraße 28 (center) and around 1900 at Fasanenstraße 48. Last deputy plant manager, he went to the Technical University of Dresden in 1901 . There he founded the Institute for Heavy Current Technology. In 1914 and 1915 he was Rector there with the title of Privy Councilor . After it was bombed out in Dresden in 1945, he moved to Aue.
Görges was an honorary professor at TH Berlin. On March 3, 1914, in recognition of his services in the field of electrical engineering, he was awarded the title of honorary doctorate engineer by the Royal Technical University of Dresden. In 1950 the building erected in 1905 at the TH Dresden for his chair for electrical engineering was officially named in his honor with the name Görges-Bau . The University's Electrical Engineering Faculty has been awarding a Johannes Görges Prize for outstanding dissertations in their field since 1996. The "Görgessche Durchflutungspolygon" is named after Görges, a tool for assessing harmonics in wound electrical machines.
Johannes Görges was a member of the student association Corps Altsachsen Dresden in the WSC . From 1918 to 1921 he was a board member of the Association of German Engineers (VDI). His grave is in the Outer Plauen cemetery in Dresden.
literature
- Johannes Goerges. In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , pp. 284-285.
- Adolf Wißner: Görges, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 524 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Görges in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karin Fischer: Görges, Johannes Friedrich Heinrich . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry at the TH Dresden
- ↑ Speeches 1914/1915 at the TH Dresden
- ↑ Honorary doctorate to Hofrat Johannes Görges
- ↑ Image of the Görges-Bau on altana-galerie-dresden.de ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Miller: Görges diagram / Das Görgessche Durchflutungspolygon - 1907
- ^ List of members of the Corps Altsachsen Dresden. Dresden 1936, p. 172.
- ^ Marie-Luise Heuser , Wolfgang König : Tabular compilations on the history of the VDI . In: Karl-Heinz Ludwig (Ed.): Technology, Engineers and Society - History of the Association of German Engineers 1856–1981 . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-18-400510-0 , p. 582 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Görges, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Görges, Hans Friedrich Heinrich; Görges, Johannes Friedrich Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luneburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 7, 1946 |
| Place of death | Aue |