Hermann Dießelhorst

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Hermann Georg Heinrich Dießelhorst (born December 1, 1870 in Peine , † February 22, 1961 in Braunschweig ) was a German physicist and professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig .

Life

After attending the higher city school in his hometown, Dießelhorst moved to the Royal Andreas Realgymnasium in Hildesheim , where he passed his Abitur in 1890. He then studied mechanical engineering at the TH Charlottenburg , but later switched to mathematics and physics at the universities of Berlin and Munich . In Berlin, he finished his studies with a doctorate to become a Dr. phil.

After working at the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR) in Berlin, Dießelhorst was appointed full professor at the TH Braunschweig in 1910. After 1933, a member of the DDP from 1918 to 1933 , he often came into conflict with the National Socialist rulers , which brought him disciplinary proceedings. In 1935 he was regularly retired after reaching the age limit . Günther Cario was his successor .

Since 1944 he was a member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society .

Honors

Works (selection)

  • About the potential of circular currents with an application to the Helmholtz electrodynamometer. Dissertation. Berlin 1896.
  • Magnetic fields and forces with an overview of the vector calculation. Special edition of the article "Electrodynamics" from the handbook of electricity and magnetism. (Volume IV, 1920). Barth, Leipzig 1939, 215 pp.
  • Conduction. In: Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences . 1904 (with Ernest William Hobson )

literature

  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 86.

swell

  • Braunschweig University Archives, Dießelhorst personnel file (B7 D: 5)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Information from the Office of the Federal President