Hans Kerschbaum (physicist)

Kerschbaum at the beginning of the 1920s

Hans Kerschbaum (born November 19, 1902 in Holzminden ; † May 1, 1984 in Starnberg ) was a German physicist and CEO of Siemens & Halske AG and Siemens AG .

Life

Hans Kerschbaum studied in Stuttgart and joined the Alemannia Stuttgart fraternity there in 1921 . After graduating, he worked as an assistant at the Physics Institute at the Technical University of Munich .

In 1929 he became assistant to the management of the central laboratory at Siemens & Halske. In 1933 he became deputy head of the pipe factory. In 1943 he became a board member and head of the Funkwerk.

In the last days of the war, Kerschbaum was taken prisoner by the Soviets. In 1949 he became a member of the board again and was in charge of the communications engineering works and central development. In 1954 he became deputy chairman of the board and finally in 1956 chairman of the board of Siemens & Halske AG. After the merger of Siemens & Halske, Siemens-Schuckertwerke and Siemens-Reiniger-Werken to form Siemens AG in 1966, Kerschbaum was a member of the three-person executive committee until his retirement in 1968. After that he was a member of the supervisory board until 1973.

Fonts

• About measurements of the luminosity of atoms in alkali metals, oxygen and nitrogen , in: Annalen der Physik , 79 (1926)
• About measurements of the luminosity of atoms , in: Annalen der Physik , 83 (1927)

literature

• Siemens.de: CEO of the parent companies
• Frequency: News from research, industry and business , Volume 21, Issue 11, 1967

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Nolte : Fraternity members regular role. Berlin 1934, p. 240.