Hermann Schwarz (industrialist)
Hermann Schwarz (born March 29, 1908 in Nördlingen , † November 10, 1995 in Munich ) was a German scientist and industrialist.
Life
Like his father, he originally wanted to become a teacher and began studying physics, mathematics and geophysics in 1927, first in Heidelberg, then in Munich. After a friend had made high-frequency technology palatable to him, he moved to Jena in 1929 to see Abraham Esau, who was then high-frequency pope . In 1931 he received his doctorate with a thesis on current measurements at very high frequencies . Since then he has dealt with measurement technology. In Jena he also met his college friend Lothar Rohde .
Due to the economic depression, they stayed at the university for two years, Schwarz as lightning protection clerk at the Agricultural Machinery Institute. In autumn 1932 they happened to meet chief engineer Hans Handreck from Hermsdorfer HESCHO AG , who wanted to have the electrical loss measured at high frequencies for the ceramic insulation material Calit developed by Werner Erich Rath (1899–1987) . Industrial high-frequency measurement technology did not yet exist in Europe. Other institutes had measured different values of the loss factor in the frequency range 1 to 100 MHz. As the first joint measuring device, they developed a high-precision frequency meter and were able to deliver very accurate measured values after a short time. Since Handreck promised them further orders, they encouraged them to set up their own laboratory despite the recession. On November 17, 1933, they announced the establishment of the "Physico-Technical Development Laboratory Dr. L. Rohde and Dr. H. Schwarz ”, from which the company Rohde & Schwarz later emerged. a. Measuring devices produced.
Hermann Schwarz is buried in the Bogenhausen cemetery .
His son Friedrich Schwarz (* around 1940) was on the company's board of directors until 2005.
Awards
- 1993 Gold Medal of Honor of the City of Munich
- Honorary Senator of the Technical University of Munich
- 1991 Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena
- 1978 Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Bavarian Order of Merit
- Icelandic consul for Bavaria
- 1973 Knight of the Order of the Falcons
literature
- K. Jäger, F. Heilbronner (Ed.): Lexikon der Elektrotechniker , VDE Verlag, 2nd edition from 2010, Berlin / Offenbach, ISBN 978-3-8007-2903-6 , p. 395
Web links
- Portrait photo
- ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Photo: Friedrich Schwarz in front of the portrait of Dr. Herman Schwarz )
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.physik.uni-jena.de/Forschung/Fakult%C3%A4tpreise+/Fakult%C3%A4tpreise+%28Rohde+_+Schwarz%29+/Dr_+Hermann+Schwarz.html
- ↑ http://www.cdvandt.org/atm_z944-3.htm
- ↑ http://www.regional-technikgeschichte-hermsdorf.de/index.php/grossmesssender-56.html
- ↑ http://theodor-frey.de/friedhofnordwest2.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwarz, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German scientist and industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nordlingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1995 |
| Place of death | Munich |