Hans Nordmann (engineer)

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Hans Nordmann (born January 14, 1879 in Halberstadt ; † November 17, 1957 ) was a German engineer in the field of railways.

Life

From 1922 Nordmann was head of research and later department president at the Reichsbahn Central Office in Berlin. There he was involved with Richard Paul Wagner in the development of the standard steam locomotives for the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft . He was essentially responsible for the content, the process and the evaluation of the test series carried out in the Grunewald Locomotive Research Office, of which he was the head. He later worked in the Reichsbahn Central Office in Göttingen.

From 1942 Hans Nordmann was a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (from 1946 German Academy of Sciences ), in 1949 he was a member of the Technical Sciences class .

Hans Nordmann was honorary professor for the areas of railway operation and testing at the Technical University of Berlin . His achievements were recognized with the award of an honorary doctorate to Dr. Ing. Honored anyway.

Fonts

  • Hans Nordmann published a new edition of the two volumes of the standard work Die Schule des Lokomotivführer by Ignaz Brosius:
    • Volume 1. History of the Locomotive. Edited with Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg . 14th edition. Springer, Berlin 1923. Reprint: Kreidel, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-925952-21-7 .
    • Band 2. Machine u. Chassis. Edited with the collaboration of H. van Hees. 14th edition. Springer, Berlin 1931. Reprint: Steiger, Solingen 1992, ISBN 3-925952-20-9 .
  • The activity of the Central Railway Office and the Locomotive Research Office in the field of experiments with steam locomotives since 1914. 1923. In: Karl Rainer Repetzki (Ed.): Steam locomotives in Glasers Annalen 1920–1930. Facsimile edition: Steiger, Moers 1984, ISBN 3-921564-63-8 .
  • The performance assessment of the locomotive boiler. Siemens, Berlin 1946.
  • The main lines of development of the steam locomotive. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1948.
  • The early history of the railways. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1948.
  • The mechanics of train conveyance. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1949.
  • The older Prussian railway history. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1950.
  • Problems of continuous railway brakes in development history. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1950.
  • The mechanics of train conveyance and its scientific-experimental basis. Springer, Berlin 1952.
  • Chapter mechanics of train conveyance. and steam locomotives and tenders. In: Hut. Engineer's paperback. Volume 5, b. 28th edition. Ed. Academic Association Hut . Ernst, Berlin 1955.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ruth Federspiel, Samia Salem: On the founding history of the German Academy of Science and Engineering ( Memento of April 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), acatech special publication, p. 20 (PDF file; 950 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Nordmann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German railway engineer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1957