Heinrich sequence

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Heinrich Sequence (born January 13, 1895 in Vienna ; † May 11, 1987 ibid) was an Austrian electrical engineer.

Life

Heinrichsequence comes from a family of silk fabric makers. He wanted to become a marine engineer and began his studies in the fall of 1913 at the mechanical engineering school of the Vienna Technical University , in the subdivision for shipbuilding and marine engineering. In 1914 he volunteered for the Academic Legion and attended the Vienna batch school set up for the volunteers. In Ostrowiec he was taken prisoner by Russia, was relocated to Siberia in September 1915 and liberated in January 1920. In the autumn of 1920 he resumed his mechanical engineering studies at the Vienna University of Technology, but then turned to studying electrical engineering, which he finished in 1924.

In 1928 he published an article about the measurement of the resistance of DC armature windings in the association magazine "Elektrotechnik und Maschinenbau" of the Electrotechnical Association Vienna (EVW). That brought him in connection with the long-time editor Hofrat Alfred Grünhut (1871 - Feb. 1938) and he then worked in the editorial management of this magazine.

In 1929 he was appointed a teacher at the Federal College for Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in Vienna.

He studied physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna and wrote his dissertation in 1929. After studying at the Technical University in Aachen, he became a private lecturer at the Technical University of Vienna in 1932.

After his doctorate at the Technical University in Karlsruhe (windings), he was appointed to the Technical University in Stuttgart in 1937.

After Austria was annexed to the Reich on March 13, 1938, he was appointed acting head of the EVW. Grünhut's death in February saved him from having to take his desk away as a Jew . Shortly afterwards, he and Leonhard Kneissler were entrusted with the editing. He had all files and documents of the association destroyed, so that no original sources exist for the period before 1938 except the association magazine.

In 1939 he was appointed professor for electrical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology. There he held office between 1939 and 1942 as the successor to Herbert Schober as the local representative of the Nazi Lecturer Association , one of the most influential positions at the university. In December 1942, the Reich Ministry of Science appointed him rector of the TH Vienna. With his inaugural speech, in which he emphasized the characteristics of the “Austrian people”, he caused unrest in Nazi circles.

In August 1945 his license to teach was revoked and he was arrested as the last rector of the TH Vienna. Until 1947 he remained in various prisons and detention camps such as Camp Marcus W. Orr ( DP camp in Glasenbach ).

In 1951 he was reinstated as editor through efforts by Kneissler. In 1952 he was granted the license to teach again and in 1954 he was again full professor and director of the Institute for Electrical Systems at the Vienna University of Technology.

When several attempts were made in the 1960s to elect him as a real member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , academician Paul Funk , who had been a professor of mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology since 1945, persisted in objections and objections. He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Honors & awards

Publications

  • Attempt of a general theory of DC armature windings ; Berlin, Springer, 1933
  • Contributions to the equation of the hysteresis loop ; In: Archiv f. Electrical engineering, 1935
  • Electrical machines ; 1942 (with Theodor Bödefeld )
  • The windings of electrical machines , 1950
  • The spirit of technology: speeches and lectures at the 150th anniversary of the Technical University in Vienna, November 8-13, 1965 ; Vienna, Springer, 1966
  • Born in 1895. To celebrate my 75th birthday ; Vienna, Becvar, 1970
  • 100 years of electrical engineering in Austria 1873 - 1973 ; Vienna, Springer, 1973

literature

  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical lexicon on National Socialist science policy. Synchron - Wissenschaftsverlag der Authors, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 160 ( Studies on the history of science and universities. 6).
  • Report on the inauguration ceremony of the Rector Magnificus Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. habil., Dr-Ing. Dr. phil. Heinrich sequence ; Vienna, publishing house of TH Vienna, 1943

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oberkofler, Gerhard (2005). “The mathematician Paul Funk is confronted with the Austrian Academy of Sciences' coming to terms with the past”. In: DÖW - Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (ed.). Yearbook 2005. Focus on women in resistance and persecution . Vienna: LIT. Pp. 200-217. Online onter http://www.doew.at/cms/download/10447/web_jahrbuch_05.pdf
  2. ^ Grave site Heinrichsequence , Vienna, Zentralfriedhof, group 71, group extension B, row 24, no.26.
personal data
SURNAME Sequence, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1987
Place of death Vienna