Hermann Heumann

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Hermann Heumann (born April 30, 1878 in Neubauhof near Stavenhagen , † November 15, 1967 ) was a German engineer and scientist in the field of rail vehicle technology.

biography

After finishing school in Stavenhagen and Oldenburg, Hermann Heumann went to Munich and Hanover to study mechanical engineering in 1896. Subsequently employment at the Prussian-Hessian Railway Association , designer at Krauss & Co. (Munich). In 1906 he passed the Great State Examination and was then a government architect in Danzig, where he later became an assistant at the Technical University of Danzig and in 1909 did his doctorate. From 1920 until his retirement in 1946, he was a full professor for railway engineering and mass conveyor systems at RWTH Aachen University . 1948–1953 he gave lectures on tracking technology at the Technical University of Munich .

plant

Heumann conducted research in the areas of “track guidance technology” and “running of rail vehicles on the track”. He is considered to be the developer of the so-called Heumann method , with which the track-guiding forces can be specified in a simplified and clear manner when railway vehicles move around bends and with which the calculations possible today by modern computer programs can be checked.

Fonts

  • The practical locomotive officer (Part 1) - The locomotive, Verlag A. Nauck, Berlin, 1924.
  • Multi-pulley cable transmission, Verlag A. Ziemsen, Wittenberg, 1930.
  • Minimum procedure, self-published, Aachen, 1940.
  • Basics of the management of rail vehicles, Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich, 1954.

literature

  • Löffler, Günter: Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Heumann - an almost forgotten pioneer . Lecture at the 39th conference “Modern Rail Vehicles”, Graz, 2010. Online version (ZIP; 29.2 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Institute for Materials Handling and Rail Vehicles at RWTH Aachen University
  2. ↑ Fendrich, Lothar (Ed.): Handbuch Eisenbahninfrastructure . Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Heumann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and pioneer of rail vehicle technology
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Neubauhof (Stavenhagen)
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1967