Herbert W. Muller

Herbert W. Müller (1994)

Herbert W. Müller (born November 22, 1914 in Borstendorf , Saxony; † April 21, 2017 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German professor of mechanical engineering at the TU Darmstadt, where he was head of the chair for machine elements and gears from 1963 to 1982 .

Life

Müller was born three months after the start of the First World War, in Borstendorf in Saxony, as the third child of the farmer Ernst Albin Müller and his wife Minna. At the age of 10 he went to a boarding school in the district town of Bischofswerda and, after high school and labor service, began studying mechanical engineering at the TH Dresden , which he completed with a diploma in 1940. In the Second World War he was first in a news battalion, later he was used for vehicle / tank repairs. In 1944 he came to Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG in Dessau, where he was involved in the development of jet engines. During this time she married Ruth Kacholdt, a great-great-granddaughter of Heinrich Gottfried Piegler . After the war from 1946 to 1952 he worked in Paris, after which he found work in the research department of the ILO engine works in Pinneberg, where in 1961 he received a doctorate degree on the "mechanism of torque transmission in press-fit connections". ing. PhD.

In 1963 the chair of machine elements at the Technical University of Darmstadt was divided into machine elements I (headed by Gerhard Pahl ) and machine elements II and gears. Although he did not qualify as a professor, Müller was offered the latter chair due to his abilities, which he headed until 1982. He was one of the first to recognize the problem and importance of noise caused by machines, systems and means of transport and thus laid the foundation for the discipline of machine acoustics , and it was he who coined the term. In 1982 he retired.

He spent the last years of his life in Darmstadt, Lindau and Freiburg. From his marriage to the trade teacher Ruth Kacholdt (* May 15, 1920 - † Feb. 2, 2011) a daughter emerged.

The Müller wheel , a cogwheel with a diameter of five meters, which still stands in front of the foyer of the mechanical engineering department and is a landmark of the university, is reminiscent of Müller, because in 1977 he arranged for it to be transported to the then TH.

Gear in front of the mechanical engineering building (L1 01) on the Lichtwiese campus, TU Darmstadt

Fonts

• Müller, H. (1961): The mechanism of torques in press connections. Darmstadt: self-published.
• Müller, H. (1970): The epicyclic gears. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-3-662-06691-1
• Müller, H. (1974): Transfer to the lecture machine elements. Darmstadt: self-published.
• Müller, H. (1976): Designing for Deformation. Chemical engineer technology. Vol. 48, Issue 7, pp. 594-601.
• Duda, M., Müller, HW, Steimel, J. (1979): Calculations of flange connections. Karlsruhe: Nuclear Research Center Karlsruhe GmbH.
• Müller, H. (1980 to 1987): Compendium of machine elements. 7 editions. Darmstadt: self-published.
• Müller, H. (1982): Epicyclic Drive Trains: Analysis, Synthesis and Applications. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1663-8
• Müller, H. (1998): The epicyclic gears. 2nd Edition. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-58725-2

supporting documents

1. ↑ Tobias Melz et al. SAM department at TU Darmstadt: Obituary for Prof. Dr.-Ing. Herbert W. Muller. Scientific Society for Product Development WiGeP, 2017, accessed on April 5, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Theo Piegler (ed.): Vogtländische fates . tape 1 . Videel, Niebüll 2005, ISBN 3-89906-996-X , p. 115 .
3. ↑ Herbert W. Müller (Ed.): The mechanism of torques in press connections. Self-published, 1961.
4. ↑ Jörg Feuck: An old friend . In: Technische Universität Darmstadt (ed.): Hoch3 - The newspaper of the Technische Universität Darmstadt . Born 11th Darmstadt, October 2015, p. 8 .
5. ↑ Herbert W. Müller. In: German National Library. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .