Hans Rumpf (process engineer)

Hans Rumpf (born June 26, 1911 in Langenschwalbach im Taunus , † December 4, 1976 in Heidelberg ) was a German process engineer , university professor and university politician.

Life

After studying mechanical engineering in Darmstadt and Dresden , where he obtained his degree as an engineer, Rumpf did his doctorate in Karlsruhe in 1939 under Wilhelm Spannhake with the topic "About the visual effects that occur when powders move in spiral air currents". He worked at IG Farben in Ludwigshafen, at the Alpine machine factory in Augsburg and at Bayer AG in Leverkusen.

From 1957, Rumpf headed the newly founded Institute for Mechanical Process Engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe (today Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ) for almost 20 years . Rumpf was the first West German scientist who systematically dealt with the scientific theory of technical sciences. By Hans Lenk , Simon Moser and Klaus Schönert as editor in 1981 a selection of writings on art philosophy and sociology of technology from the fuselage appeared estate in VDI-Verlag He also devoted himself to scientific theoretical investigations of Science and Engineering in the context of the ennoblement of Science and Engineering in the Federal Republic of Germany by the philosophical discourse .

Engineers from all directions, physicists, chemists and mathematicians were represented among his doctoral students. 19 university professors emerged from them who, in his sense, shape today's process engineering. In particular, Klaus Schönert should be mentioned as an outstanding student, who systematically researched comminution processes within the scope of mechanical process engineering at the TU Clausthal and who also advanced them technologically with great success with the development of the high-pressure roller mill . His other students included:

• Fritz Ebert , University of Kaiserslautern
• Hans-Hermann Gildemeister , University of Applied Sciences Koen
• Wolfgang Hess , Flensburg University of Applied Sciences
• Lajos Kiss , Nuremberg University of Applied Sciences
• Bernd Koglin , Universities of Karlsruhe and Cologne
• Hans Peter Kurz , Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Krefeld
• Kurt Leschonski , Clausthal University of Technology
• Friedrich Löffler , University of Karlsruhe
• Otto Molerus , University of Erlangen
• Walter Müller , Clausthal University of Technology
• Manfred Pahl , University of Paderborn
• Reinhard Polke , University of Karlsruhe
• Helmar Schubert , University of Karlsruhe
• Jörg Schwedes , Technical University of Braunschweig
• Karl Sommer , Technical University of Munich
• Matthias Stieß , Nuremberg University of Applied Sciences
• Reiner Weichert , Clausthal University of Technology

For the first time, Rumpf combined the existing individual knowledge in the field of mechanical process engineering into a systematically structured teaching area and expanded it further. The empirically gained knowledge in mechanical process engineering was traced back to its physical fundamentals by him and based on this knowledge was expanded and the processes and machines improved. His essay is of central importance for the constitution of mechanical process engineering as a technical science.

Rumpf held numerous offices and received many honors. From 1966 to 1968 he was rector of the then University of Karlsruhe . He was also President of the West German Rectors' Conference , an honorary doctorate from the University of Bradford in England, received the Arnold Eucken Medal from the Research Society for Process Engineering in 1973 , was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, and received the DECHEMA Medal and the Grashof Medal from the Association of German Engineers (1977). The Hans Rumpf Medal awarded in his honor by DECHEMA and VDI honors fundamental work in the field of mechanical process engineering.

literature

• VDI-Gesellschaft process engineering and chemical engineering GVC yesterday - today - tomorrow. compiled and edited by Eckhart Blaß. Verlag KG Saur, Munich 1984.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Rumpf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Curriculum vitae on the website of the Institute for Mechanical Process Engineering and Mechanics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (ex University ex TH Karlsruhe)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ H. Rumpf: Thoughts on the scientific theory of technical sciences. In: H. Lenk, S. Moser (Ed.): Techne, Technik, Technologie. Philosophical Perspectives. Publishing house documentation, Pullach b. Munich 1973, ISBN 3-7940-2622-5 .
2. ↑ H. Lenk, S. Moser, K. Schönert (Ed.): Technology between science and practice. Technological-philosophical and technological-sociological writings from the estate of Hans Rumpf. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-18-400493-7 .
3. ↑ K.-E. Kurrer : History of Structural Analysis. In search of balance. Ernst & Sohn , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-433-03134-6 , pp. 148ff.
4. ↑ H. Rumpf: Structure of the comminution science. In: processing technology. Volume 7, Issue 8, 1966, pp. 421-435.