Hans Günter Rost

Hans Günter Rost (born July 19, 1904 in Jever , † February 2, 1997 in Berlin-Pankow ) was a German designer.

Life

Hans Rost was born as the son of the magistrate actuary Johann Jacob Rost. After completing his engineering degree, he worked in the Germania shipyard in Kiel, at MAN Augsburg and Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz in Cologne, each in the design department. In 1938 he went to the Buckau R. Wolf machine factory in Magdeburg , where he was in charge of design in the engine division. The focus of work was initially on two-stroke engines. During the Second World War , a series of four-stroke engines was developed, which, however, was initially only built in small numbers. In the post-war period, the series was revised and on May 22, 1948 the first engine of the 4DV224 series was completed by the engine factory in the Salbke district of Magdeburg .

Due to an economic boycott by the western allies, the Soviet Union quickly needed diesel engines for use as ship engines for the intended construction of its fishing fleet. The Soviet military administration in Germany therefore instructed the expansion of the corresponding production capacities at Buckau-Wolf, later VEB Schwermaschinenbau Karl Liebknecht (SKL). With the department he headed, Rost developed new, suitable variants for the previous series. On December 21, 1950, a test run of a more powerful 6DV148 series with a stroke of 480 mm and an output per cylinder of 90 hp took place. Rost's work also included expanding the capacities required to manufacture the engines. By the time a new, more powerful series was developed in 1965, 40,000 of the motors developed by Rost and his employees had been delivered. Because of their robustness even in difficult climatic conditions and the low maintenance requirement, the engines enjoyed great popularity, especially in the member countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (RGW).

Rost was chairman of the Central Working Group on Diesel Engines of the GDR and thus played a key role in the direction of GDR engine construction.

Rost stayed with the SKL until 1970 and then retired. In 1976 he moved to Berlin. In Magdeburg at the end of the 1930s he lived at Aussiger Straße 20 , today's Spechtweg, and later at Am Schroteanger 12 in the Stadtfeld West district .

literature

• Heinz Thüm: Rost, Hans Günter. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , pp. 602f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Magdeburg address book 1939, Part I, page 322
2. ↑ Address book of the city of Magdeburg 1950-51, Part I, page 497