Hans Mögel
Hans Mögel (born May 31, 1900 in Leipzig , † April 10, 1944 in Paris ) was a German physicist.
He attended school in Krefeld and Meißen from 1906 to 1918 , from which he graduated in 1918 with the top prima in Meißen. From 1917 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a flag boy in a technical force .
After the war he studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Dresden until 1921 and during the semester break worked as an intern at four different factories for electrical equipment and high-frequency technology in Meißen and Dresden, and as an assistant at the Technical University in Dresden. On November 18, 1922, he graduated with a degree in engineering with a thesis on the vibrating audion .
From 1922 to 1925 he was laboratory manager for transmitter and amplifier technology at Dr. Erich F. Huth GmbH for radio telegraphy in Berlin and in the following year he worked as an assistant at the Technical University of Dresden at Heinrich Barkhausen .
There he received his doctorate in 1926 with a thesis on the simultaneous excitation of two vibrations in a three-electrode tube as a Dr.-Ing.
Until 1931 he worked as an industrial physicist at Transradio AG for wireless overseas traffic in Berlin, a subsidiary of Telefunken and as such responsible for supervision, technical equipment and operational organization, mainly at the overseas radio reception centers in Geltow and Beelitz . He also dealt with questions of frequency measurement and wave propagation (especially on shortwave ) and discovered phenomena of shortwave interference, which he called the Mögel-Dellinger effect in his honor . John Howard Dellinger was an American who, independently of Mögel and a little later, established further connections between solar radiation and shortwave interference.
From 1932 to 1934, Hans Mögel was a consultant for radio systems at the Reichspostzentralamt in Berlin. There he worked a. a. also on the advance planning of the frequency use for shortwave long-distance connections (frequency forecast) depending on the season and solar activity .
As first speaker, later group leader, at the head of the communications connection entity (NVW), Dept. 3 in the Reich Ministry of Aviation (RLM) and responsible for radio navigation and air traffic control systems, he worked until 1937 and was hired as a civil servant in the same year in the (civil servant) rank of an aviation staff engineer ( major ). (As a so-called military officer , today one would say civil servant employee. Military officers had no command or authority over the military troops.)
Afterwards he was transferred to the Air Force engineering corps. In 1937 he was posted to the World Exhibition in Paris (November 2–6) and in 1940 was promoted to chief pilot officer ( lieutenant colonel ).
In 1940/1941 he was head of the Luft-Nachrichten Ausbaustab 3 in western France and from 1941 onwards, because of the intensification of the German air war against England, he was responsible for planning the radio navigation and expanding the ground radio and navigation systems. In 1942 he was promoted to the rank of a colonel engineer ( colonel ).
From 1942 to 1944 Hans Mögel was Head of Service Ln (= Luftnachrichten) expansion stage manager West in Paris.
On April 10, 1944, after a long briefing in Paris, he suffered a heart attack.
Hans Mögel married on August 9, 1928 and had a son.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Mögel in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mögel, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1944 |
| Place of death | Paris |