Heinz Jungnickel (refrigeration engineer)

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Heinz Jungnickel (born November 29, 1914 in Radebeul ; † June 15, 2006 there ) was a German refrigeration engineer . He was considered the "central ... personality in the field of refrigeration technology in eastern Germany".

Life

Jungnickel was born as the second child of a teacher in Paul-Gerhardt-Straße 3 in Radebeul- Serkowitz . His mother died in 1918. Jungnickel attended the Saxon State School in Klotzsche, which he graduated from high school in 1934. From 1935 to 1940 he studied physics at the Technical University of Dresden , where his studies were interrupted by military service, and then worked as a government councilor in the scientific service of the marine observatory in Greifswald until 1942 . From 1942 to 1945 he was department head of the authorized representative for high frequency research at the August Toepler Institute of the THD. In 1944 he did his doctorate under Hans Falkenhagenwith a thesis on the concentric hollow line as a measuring instrument in the decimeter and centimeter wave area .

Heinz Jungnickel's grave in Dresden

From 1946 Jungnickel worked as a freelance engineer and was the owner of the Lehnmühle mechanical workshop with an attached oxygen plant. In 1952 he became a lecturer for refrigeration technology at the mechanical engineering faculty of the TH Dresden and was in 1953 an employee and from 1954 to 1969 chief designer of the VEB Projektierung und Anlagenbau Chemie Dresden and the VVB Chemical and Air Conditioning Systems. In 1954 he became titular professor for refrigeration technology and chief designer at VVB NAGEMA . He received the National Prize for Science and Technology for setting up the first argon production facility in Leuna in 1958 .

In 1958 he was appointed professor with a chair for refrigeration technology at the TH Dresden. From 1959 to 1964 he was director of the Institute for Chemical and Refrigeration Equipment at VVB Chemical and Air Conditioning Systems Dresden. From 1969 until his retirement in 1979 Jungnickel taught and researched as a full professor for energy conversion (refrigeration technology) and from 1968 to 1972 as director of the energy conversion section at the TU Dresden. During his time at the TU Dresden he supervised around 270 diploma students and 36 doctoral students. After his retirement, he continued to be scientifically active, was a member of international scientific committees and from 1990 supported the redesign of the TU Dresden. In 1998 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class, for his “outstanding scientific and technical achievement” . Jungnickel died in Radebeul in 2006 and was buried in the Heidefriedhof in Dresden.

Publications (selection)

  • 1944: The concentric hollow pipe as a measuring instrument in the decimeter and centimeter wave area - dissertation
  • 1952: The plastics Vinidur and Igelit - with Heinz Wippenhohn
  • 1955: PVC plastics for industry and trade - with Heinz Wippenhohn
  • 1972: Low temperatures in process engineering - with Werner Otto
  • 1980: Fundamentals of refrigeration technology (3rd edition 1990) - with Rainer Agsten and Wolf Eberhard Kraus

Awards (selection)

  • 1959: National Prize of the GDR III. Science and technology class
  • 1990: Honorary member of the German Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Association
  • 1998: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

literature

  • Jungnickel, Heinz. In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 426.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see tombstone
  2. ↑ a b c Prof. em. Dr. rer. nat. Heinz Jungnickel has passed away . ki-portal.de, July 18, 2006.
  3. ↑ Heinz Jungnickel: My life . Universitätsarchiv der TU Dresden, p. 1 ( online ( memento of the original dated December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tu-dresden.de
  4. ↑ Biography on the website of the Historical Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Association
personal data
SURNAME Jungnickel, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German refrigeration engineer
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Radebeul
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 2006
Place of death Radebeul