Hayo Folkerts

Hayo Folkerts (born December 24, 1871 in Emden , † August 11, 1946 in Munich ) was a German mechanical engineer and university professor.

Life

Hayo Folkerts studied mechanical engineering from 1893 to 1900 at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg , where he became a member of the Corps Berolina, and at the University of Berlin . In 1907 he became assistant to Hugo Junkers at RWTH Aachen University . After his habilitation, he became a private lecturer in mining engineering in Aachen at the beginning of 1909. In 1922 he was appointed associate professor for mining engineering, had been assistant at the chair for metallurgy since 1923 and was appointed chief engineer in 1927. He retired at the end of March 1937.

In his research and teaching activities, he dealt in particular with the process air flow in the blow molding process for steel production . Although not a member of the NSDAP or other NS associations, from the end of July 1933 he was acting university chairman of the Reichsfachschaft for university teachers in the NS teacher association .

Fonts

• The wind guide in the converter refreshing process , 1924
• Preface in: Wolf Adolf Euler: The furnace gas cleaning: The most important processes with special consideration of the dry gas cleaning process Halbergerhütte-Beth system and the Theisen disintegrator process , 1927

literature

• Ulrich Kalkmann: The Technical University of Aachen in the Third Reich (1933–1945) , 2003, pp. 90, 536 and others ( digitized )

Web links

• Hayo Folkerts on www.uni-stuttgart.de (PDM prosopographical database of mechanical engineers 1825–1970)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 38.