Hermann Cranz

Hermann Cranz in the color of his fraternity Alemannia Stuttgart .

Hermann Karl Georg Cranz (born August 12, 1883 in Stuttgart ; † February 6, 1944 in Hanover ) was a German engineer and professor of mechanics at the Technical University of Hanover .

Life

Hermann Cranz was born as the son of the mathematics professor Heinrich Cranz .

Cranz studied mechanical engineering at the TH Berlin and received his doctorate . In 1903 he joined the Alemannia Stuttgart fraternity . In Berlin he was an assistant to Otto Kammerer , whom he supported in researching wear and tear on gears in trams. From 1920 until his death he taught as a full professor of mechanics at the Technical University of Hanover. In November 1933 he signed the declaration of professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler in Leipzig .

Tests with lubricating rings at higher numbers of revolutions , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1913
with Reinhard Hugershoff : Basics of photogrammetry from aircraft , Wittwer, Stuttgart 1919
Trials with gears from tram cars , Oldenbourg, Berlin / Munich 1923
Model experiments to solve problems of the first potential , in: Archive of Applied Mechanics, Volume 7, Number 6 (1936), 432-438
The experimental determination of the Airy stress function with the help of the plate equation , in: Archive of Applied Mechanics, Volume 10, Number 3 (1939), 159–166

Rotermund, Hans: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover, 1831–1956. Library of the Technical University, Hanover 1956, p. 167
Wolfgang Haack: Cranz, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 401 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Cranz, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cranz, Hermann Karl Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mechanical engineer, university lecturer at the Technical University of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH	August 12, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	February 6, 1944
Place of death	Hanover