Hans Schwenkhagen

Hans Fritz Carl Schwenkhagen (born July 25, 1900 in Magdeburg , † September 9, 1958 in Wuppertal ) was a German electrical engineer and university professor.

Life

Schwenkhagen studied electrical engineering at the Technical University in Berlin from 1919 to 1923 and was awarded a Dr.-Ing. PhD. From 1924 to 1933 he worked in industry. After his habilitation at the TH Berlin (1934) he was initially a representative of his former teacher Ernst Orlich in Berlin. In 1935 he was appointed associate professor for theoretical electrical engineering at the Technical University of Danzig in 1937 . After the Second World War he was a self-employed engineer, executive board member and scientific director of the Technical Academy Bergisch-Land in Wuppertal . The specialist dictionary of electrical engineering he edited , from the second edition of the dictionary of electrical engineering and electronics, is a standard work and has been reissued several times.

Publications

• Investigations into current displacement in rectangular conductors (Berlin 1927)
• Atomic Physics (Iserlohn 1948)
• General alternating current theory . 2 volumes (Berlin 1951/59)
• Electrical engineering dictionary. German-English, English-German (Essen 1959, 6th edition 1999)
• Investigation of electrical charge phenomena in the atmosphere (Cologne 1965)

literature

• Catalogus Professorum . In: Contributions and documents on the history of the Gdansk Technical University 1904–1945 . Hanover 1979, p. 161.