Hans Hart (physicist)

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Hans Hart (2014)

Hans Hart (* 7. March 1923 in Brieg ; † 14. December 2016 in Berlin ) was a German physicist and professor for metrology and co-founder of the training of graduate engineers for operational measurement technology in Germany .

Career

Hans Hart was born in Brieg, today Brzeg , in Lower Silesia , in 1923 as the first of three children; his father was a postman. From 1929 to 1936 he attended elementary school and then the high school in construction form.

After graduating from high school at the end of 1940, he was first drafted into the Reich Labor Service and immediately afterwards from 1941 on to the Wehrmacht . He was deployed on the Eastern Front and ended up as a Soviet prisoner of war at the end of the war in 1945 . After his release in the summer of 1949, he lived in Zitz, Jerichow district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ) and initially had to undergo a long hospital stay. During this time he earned his living a. a. with the translation of Russian specialist literature into German (RW Iljin: The nature of adsorption forces. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften Berlin 1954). From autumn 1950 he studied physics at the Brandenburg State Higher School in Potsdam (later University of Education, PHP and now University of Potsdam ), and he graduated from here the end of 1954 graduated as a physicist with the predicate "with distinction".

Career entry as a physicist in teaching and research

His studies followed a scientific activity in teaching and research as an assistant and research assistant in the physics of Pedagogical College Potsdam by the end of 1961. Already in December 1958 received his doctorate he attended the Faculty of fuel economy of the TH Leuna-Merseburg Dr. rer. nat.

Since 1962 he worked in a research center of the German Academy of Sciences (DAW) in Berlin. Here he mainly dealt with problems of measurement technology . His research focus was especially the measurement technology with nuclear radiation .

Acting in higher education and science

For fall semester 1964, he got a reputation as a university lecturer at the Technical University Leuna-Merseburg , and he became a university lecturer , the subject "metrology" in the newly founded Institute of Automation of chemical processes (Director: George Brack ). He obtained his habilitation here in mid-1966. His subsequent appointment as a non-party professor with a teaching position for the subject of measurement technology at the same technical university " Carl Schorlemmer " Leuna-Merseburg was only possible because no competitor with nearly the same professional competence from the ranks of the SED was available.

Here he cooperated on the application side of his research in particular with the Institute for Process Engineering. In his function as Vice Dean for Research, he was also responsible for student exchanges with universities in socialist countries (Leningrad, Bratislava, Warsaw, Veszprém).

For health reasons, he was reassigned to the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB) in the autumn semester of 1969 . Here he held the chair for measurement and testing technology at the newly founded electronics section . The relevant chair for control engineering was occupied at the same time as Wolfgang Weller . He came from industry at the Berlin Institute for Automatic Control , was a pupil of Heinrich Kindler in Dresden and had close technical contacts with the Dresden Institute for Automatic Control Technology of the DAW. With this strong measurement and control component of the new electronics section, a request made by Hermann Schmidt from the 1940s was also met, who had suggested the establishment of an institute for control engineering in Berlin in a memorandum, which, however, did not come about at the time, only Schmidt became In 1944 appointed to the first chair for control engineering in Germany.

The further research and development work by Hans Hart related to the sensor technology . Research was carried out specifically on measuring systems, information and measured value transmission and sensor technology, as well as practical applications.

In addition to his extensive teaching and research activities, Hart developed a lively publication activity . So came z. For more than a decade, for example, he wrote more than half of all publications per year in the Electronics section. In total, it has produced over 150 scientific publications, including more than 15 specialist books and manuals with multiple editions and translations into multiple languages. His textbook “Introduction to Measurement Technology” was also published as a licensed edition by the Vieweg publishing house in Braunschweig with two editions. Through his publications in the Federal Republic of Germany and Great Britain, as well as through his numerous contacts with specialist colleagues in western countries, especially in the Federal Republic during the German division, he became well known and respected in specialist circles, but as a university lecturer who was always independent, he has not been allowed to travel abroad since 1970 the west approved more.

Hart held lectures and specialist courses within the framework of the Chamber of Technology (KDT) and Urania .

Hart worked in specialist committees of the Scientific and Technical Society for Measurement and Automation Technology (WGMA) in the Berlin Chamber of Technology. In this capacity he also worked in the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO), Member of Credentials and Membership Committee.

All in all, Hans Hart has given the Electronics Section of the HUB, founded in 1968, a lot of recognition at home and abroad through his fundamental publications and his explicit application orientation. With his chair for all main components of the measurement and testing technology he represents, he has also supervised numerous doctoral students. The work of Hart as the initiator of national and international specialist conferences at home and abroad has contributed to the professional reputation. Hart has given over 50 lectures at scientific conferences in Germany and abroad.

Hart was a member of the section council of the electronics section at the HUB and worked as an expert reviewer. He was one of the experts in measurement technology and one of the pioneers in the training of corresponding qualified engineers in Germany.

The retirement of Hart took place in 1986. As he the fall of the Berlin Wall experienced is by the witnesses Werner Richter , with whom he was technically closely related, handed down accordingly as follows: "With Hans hard I had a common experience: the day of When the Berlin Wall fell, we were both in Karl-Marx-Stadt as reviewers for a PhD B (habilitation of an employee of Eugen-Georg Woschni ). At that time, people spent the night in a student residence hall. In the morning at breakfast Hart said to me: Have you heard that the wall has come down? My reaction: Mr. Hart, you have already made better jokes !!! ”This clearly expresses the unbelievable and totally surprising thing about this historic event, which Hart and the subsequent German reunification welcomed everyone.

Private

Hart had been with Brigitte Hart , geb. Kaczmarek who worked as a photographer. The couple have two children, who are also married, and four grandchildren.

In his spare time , Hart collected beer labels.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Patents registered at home and abroad and used by industry.
  • To define the "scattering force" of galvanic baths. Dissertation. TH for Chemistry Leuna-Merseburg, Faculty of Materials Management 1958.
  • Isotopes in the service of scientific and technical progress. Edited by the Office for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Technology of the Government of the GDR. Compilation and scientific editing. Verlag Technik, Berlin 1959.
  • Radioactive isotopes in the thickness measurement. Verlag Technik, Berlin, 1st edition (with Karstens). Radioactive isotopes in industrial measurement technology. Verlag Technik, Berlin, 2nd edition 1962. Translation into Polish: Panstowe Wydawnictwa Techniczne, Warszawa 1960.
  • Radioactive isotopes in industrial measurement technology. Verlag Technik, Berlin 1964 (with various co-authors). Translation into Hungarian: Müszaki Könyvkiado, Budapest 1965.
  • The continuous liquid density measurement with the help of nuclear radiation. Habilitation thesis. TH for Chemistry Leuna-Merseburg, Faculty for Process Engineering and Basic Sciences 1966.
  • Continuous liquid density measurement - basic terms of industrial measurement technology, illustrated using the example of the measured variable density. Verlag Technik, Berlin and Vieweg Verlag, Braunschweig 1969, series automation technology, vol. 76.
  • Liquid density measurement with the help of nuclear radiation. Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1972. Translation into Russian: Atomisdat , Moscow 1975.
  • Taschenbuch Betriebsmesstechnik. Verlag Technik, Berlin 1974, 2nd edition 1982 (edited with Klaus Götte and Gerhard Jeschke).
  • Introduction to measurement technology. Verlag Technik, Berlin and Vieweg Verlag, Braunschweig 1978, 2nd edition 1979, 3rd edition 1980, 4th edition 1987, 5th edition 1989, ISBN 3-341-00672-9 . Translation into Russian: Izdatelstwo Mir, Moscow 1999 and translation into Bulgarian: Drshawno Izdatelstwo Technika, Sofia 1982.
  • Measurement accuracy. Verlag Technik, Berlin 1987, 2nd edition 1989, ISBN 3-341-00073-9 . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich; Vienna, 3rd edition 1997, ISBN 3-486-22774-2 (with Werner Lotze and Eugen-Georg Woschni ).

literature

  • Dietrich Werner, D. Herrmann: msr presents: Technical University "Carl Schorlemmer" Leuna-Merseburg - Process Engineering Section, Automation Engineering Science Area. In: measure, control, regulate, Berlin . Vol. 27, No. 5, 1984, pp. 231-235.
  • Hans-Joachim Bittrich , Ch. Duschk, G. Fuchs: Carl Schorlemmer . German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig 1984.
  • Werner Kriesel , Hans Rohr, Andreas Koch: History and future of measurement and automation technology. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, pp. 65–84, 178–185, ISBN 3-18-150047-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Krug , Hans-Joachim Hörig, Dieter Schnurpfeil (editor): 50 years of the university in Merseburg. Merseburg contributions to the history of the chemical industry in Central Germany, publisher: Förderverein "Sachzeugen der chemical Industrie e. V. ", Merseburg, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2004.
  2. Wolfgang Weller : Automation technology at a glance. Beuth Verlag, Berlin / Vienna / Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-410-16760-0 . Wolfgang Weller: Automation technology through the ages - development history of a fascinating subject. Verlag epubli, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8442-5487-7 and www.edoc.hu-berlin.de January 13, 2013.
  3. Kurt J. Reinschke: memory of Heinrich Kindler , first Professor of Control Engineering at the Technical University Dresden. In: Automation technology, Munich. Vol. 58, No. 06, 2010, pp. 345-347.
  4. Frank Dittmann: On the development of the “general regulatory knowledge” in Germany. Hermann Schmidt and the “Memorandum for the establishment of an institute for control engineering”. In: Wiss. TU Dresden magazine. Vol. 44, No. 6, 1995, pp. 88-94.
  5. ^ Karl Heinz Fasol : Hermann Schmidt , natural scientist and philosopher - pioneer of general control loop theory in Germany. In: Automation technology, Munich. Vol. 49, No. 3, 2001, pp. 138-144.
  6. Werner Kriesel : Future models for computer science, automation and communication. In: Frank Fuchs-Kittowski ; Werner Kriesel (Ed.): Computer science and society. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski . Peter Lang International Science Publishers, PL Academic Research, Frankfurt a. M .; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Warszawa; Vienna 2016, pp. 415-430, ISBN 978-3-631-66719-4 (print), E- ISBN 978-3-653-06277-9 (e-book).
  7. ^ Elmar Schrüfer : Electrical measurement technology. Hanser Verlag, Munich; Vienna. 1st edition 1983, Fachbuchverlag Leipzig im Hanser Verlag, 11th edition 2014 (with L. Reindl and B. Zagar), ISBN 978-3-446-44208-5 .
  8. Werner Richter : Electrical measurement technology - basics. 3. Edition. VDE-Verlag, Offenbach 1994, ISBN 3-8007-2028-0 . Werner Richter, Heinz Töpfer : Key technology automation: yesterday - today - tomorrow. In: measure, control, regulate, Berlin. Vol. 32, No. 10, 1989, pp. 434-438. Werner Richter, Manfred Engshuber: Alexander von Humboldt's measurement technology - instruments, methods, results. epubli Verlag, Berlin 2014, print edition ISBN 978-3-8442-8969-5 , eBook ISBN 978-3-8442-9056-1 .
  9. ^ Eugen-Georg Woschni : Life in three German states - A Saxon reports. Tauchaer Verlag, Taucha / Leipzig 2012. ISBN 978-3897722156 .