Hans Jancke
Hans Jancke (born March 12, 1911 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † May 5, 1982 in Berlin ) was a German physicist and politician . From 1959 to 1971 he was a city councilor in the Berlin magistrate and from 1963 to 1971 a member of the Berlin city council .
Life
Jancke, son of a pastor, studied various sciences at the universities in Munich and Breslau from 1928 to 1931 . From 1931 to 1935 he studied physics at the University of Berlin as a working student. In 1936 he received his doctorate from Berlin University (on the intensities in the spectrum of helium). From 1931 to 1945 he worked as a research assistant in the research department of the Osram plant in Berlin. On September 1, 1932, he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP).
After the Second World War , he became a research assistant in the special design office in Halle (Saale) in 1946 and stayed as a specialist (rocket researcher) in the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1952 . After his return to the GDR in 1952, he became deputy director of the Institute for Radiation Sources (later the Technical and Physical Institute) of the German Academy of Sciences (DAW) in Berlin and in 1956 director of the newly created Institute for Equipment at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Jancke was appointed professor by the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in April 1959.
On September 9, 1959, he was elected by the Berlin city council with Ilse Rodenberg and Herbert Landmann as a member of the Berlin magistrate. He held the function of a voluntary city council until 1971. As a member of the FDGB , he was a city councilor in Berlin from 1963 to 1971. Jancke was non-party in the GDR.
In 1961 he became director of the Central Institute for Automation in Dresden. From 1966 he was Vice President of the German Office for Standardization, Metrology and Goods Testing (DAMW) and head of the main department of metrological research .
Jancke was married and the father of three children. He died at the age of 71.
Awards
- 1959 Medal of Merit of the GDR
- 1960 Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin
- 1961 National Prize of the GDR III. Science and technology class
- 1971 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1976 in silver
literature
- Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR , Elisabeth Reichmann Verlag, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-923137-00-1 , p. 243.
Web links
- Adlershofer Zeitung, No. 221, September 2012, p. 8f. (Accessed July 22, 2016).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Appointed professor . In: Neues Deutschland , April 14, 1959, p. 4.
- ↑ Critical words in the city parliament . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 10, 1959, p. 2.
- ↑ Life data of Prof. Dr. Hans Jancke . In: Neues Deutschland, October 22, 1961, p. 3.
- ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung of May 13, 1983, p. 8.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jancke, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist and politician (independent) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt (Oder) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5th 1982 |
| Place of death | Berlin |