Helmut Pfannmüller
Helmut Pfannmüller (born October 1, 1902 in Bad Wimpfen , † November 28, 1977 in Hanover ) was a German civil engineer and, as a professor, Rector of the Technical University of Hanover from 1943 to 1945 .
Life
Helmut Pfannmüller studied civil engineering at the TH Darmstadt from 1920 to 1924 . He then began at the Duisburg steel construction company Harkort and calculated there with others the statics of the Rhine - suspension bridge at Cologne-Mülheim , in the Second World War was destroyed. 1929 he became an assistant at the RWTH Aachen at the Department of Adolf Müllenhoff , where in 1930 his work was an iron To form and calculation pressure belt-bracing doctorate . In October 1932 he joined the NSDAP and quickly made a career at RWTH Aachen University in the following years. He also joined the SA . In 1935 he took part in the leadership course of the National Socialist German Lecturer Association (NSDDB) in Kiel and was trained as a political leader . As a result, he became head of the NSDDB at RWTH Aachen University in 1936. Despite the lack of a habilitation , he received a teaching position for steel construction as early as 1936 through the advocacy of the construction department and his predecessor, Nipper, who was now working in Berlin as NSDDB leader, because his political commitment was valued. As head of the NSDDB, he rather sought confrontation with the teaching staff and put political commitment over academic qualifications. In 1937 he completed his habilitation, but was still only considered a moderate scientist. Rector Grube now tried to praise him for his office. A first attempt to get Pfannmüller a professorship at the TH Darmstadt failed. The second attempt was successful: Pfannmüller was appointed professor to the chair for statics and steel construction at the TH Hannover in 1937. Here, too, his political involvement led to a rapid career: in 1939 he became Lecturer Association Leader of the TH, in 1942 Gaudozenten Association Leader and Vice Rector and finally Rector from 1943 to 1945. Also in 1943 he was licensed as a test engineer for structural engineering and as a special expert for large equipment in opencast mining. As rector, he had the university library relocated in good time and thus prevented its destruction in the war. After the war, Pfannmüller continued to teach at the TH Hannover and had his own office in Hannover.
Awards
- 1972: Honorary doctorate from TH Munich
Fonts (selection)
- For the training and calculation of iron compression belt wind braces , dissertation RWTH Aachen, Noske, Borna-Leipzig 1931
- with Reinhard Kaufmann: About the fatigue behavior of steel as a material: Results of a special literature study , Technical University of Hanover - Chair for Steel Construction, Hanover 1960
- with Reinhard Kaufmann: The fatigue strength verification of the "Calculation bases for large devices in opencast mines" and its permissible stresses , Technical University of Hanover - Chair for Steel Construction, Hanover 1960
- Large equipment in opencast mines: special features in statics and construction , Technical University of Hanover - Chair for Steel Construction, Hanover 1970
Works (selection)
- 1957: Static testing of the Grugahalle , Essen
literature
- Catalogus professorum 1831-1981 . Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hanover, Vol. 2, Stuttgart 1981, p. 231.
- Reinhard Kaufmann (Ed.): Tasks and problems from the working world of engineers: Dedicated to Helmut Pfannmüller on the occasion of his 65th birthday , Technical University of Hanover - Chair for Steel Construction, Hanover 1967.
- Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 .
- Klaus Stiglat : Civil engineers and their work , Ernst & Sohn , Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-433-01665-8 , p. 306.
- Michael Jung: Our hearts beat with enthusiasm towards the Führer. The Technical University of Hanover and its professors under National Socialism. BOD, Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6451-3 .
- Karl-Eugen Kurrer : German Steel Construction Day in Hanover , in: Stahlbau , 84th year (2015), no. 2, pp. 143–151.
Web links
- Literature by and about Helmut Pfannmüller in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich Kalkmann: The Technical University of Aachen in the Third Reich (1933-1945) (Volume 4 of Aachen Studies on Technology and Society), Mainz, 2003, ISBN 978-3-86130-181-3 , p. 58 ff. Michael Jung : Our hearts beat enthusiastically to the leader. The Technical University of Hanover and its professors under National Socialism. Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6451-3 , especially pp. 243, 253 f.
- ^ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - Online bibliography: Helmut Pfannmüller , accessed on March 8, 2010.
Directors: Karl Karmarsch (1831–1875) | Wilhelm Launhardt (1875–1880)
Rectors: Wilhelm Launhardt (1880–1886) | Karl Dolezalek (1886-1892) | Wilhelm Kohlrausch (1892–1895) | Albert Frank (1895–1898) | Heinrich Köhler (1898–1901) | Ludwig Kiepert (1901–1904) | Georg Barkhausen (1904–1907) | Hermann Ost (1907–1910) | Franz Frese (1910–1911) | Karl Mohrmann (1911–1913) | Robert Otzen (1913–1915) | Carl Heim (1915–1917) | Ludwig Troske (1917–1919) | Conrad Müller (1919–1923) | Ernst Vetterlein (1923–1925) | Fritz Oesterlen (1925–1927) | Friedrich Quincke (1927–1929) | Otto Blum (1929–1931) | Ludwig Klein (1931–1933) | Otto Franzius (1933–1934) | Horst von Sanden (1934–1937) | Hanns Simons (1937–1939) | Alexander Matting (1940-1943) | Helmut Pfannmüller (1943–1945) | Conrad Müller (1945–1947) | Otto Flachsbart (1947–1950) | Walter Großmann (1950–1951) | Hermann Deckert (1951–1952) | Walter Hensen (1952–1954) | Hans Schönfeld (1954–1956) | Johannes Schlums (1956–1957) | Walter Theilacker (1957–1958) | Wilhelm Nicolaisen (1958–1959) | Egon Martyrer (1959–1960) | Wilhelm Wortmann (1960–1961) | Hans-Oskar Wilde (1961–1963) | Albert Vierling (1963–1964) | Walter Renard (1964–1966) | Theodor Kaluza (1966–1968) | Alf Pflüger (1968–1969) | Eduard Pestel (1969–1970) | Hermann Böhrs (1970–1971) | Jürgen Wehrmann (1971–1972) | Lothar Hübl (1973–1974) | Gerhart Laage (1974–1975) | Hinrich Seidel (1975–1977) | Otwin Massing (1977–1978) | Klaus Schäfer (1978–1979)
President: Hinrich Seidel (1979–1997) | Ludwig Schätzl (1997–2005) | Erich Barke (2005–2014) | Volker Epping (since 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfannmüller, Helmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil engineer, rector of the TH Hannover (1943–1945) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Wimpfen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1977 |
| Place of death | Hanover |