Horst Weber (production engineer)
Horst Weber (born September 4, 1925 in Dresden ) is a German professor of manufacturing technology and former rector of the Technical University of Chemnitz .
Life
In 1943 Weber joined the NSDAP . After completing an apprenticeship as a machine fitter in 1944 and subsequent Abitur , Weber studied at the Technical University of Dresden . He received his doctorate in 1958 on the subject of process-related profile errors when milling and grinding threads with straight flanks in the axial section . He then worked from 1959 to 1963 in the field of project planning for plant and equipment and production preparation in the chemical industry, and at the same time gave lectures at the Technical University of Dresden on the subject of cutting tools .
In 1963 he was appointed professor for machining and production design at the Technical University of Karl-Marx-Stadt. There Weber completed his habilitation in 1968 on the subject of the fundamentals of the mechanics of chip formation . In 1969 he became Vice-Rector for Research and from 1973 to 1982 he was Rector of the Technical University of Karl-Marx-Stadt.
Weber had been a corresponding member since 1975 and a full member since 1989 of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . He then became a member of the Leibniz Society for Science in Berlin in 1993 .
On April 6, 1983 Weber was appointed honorary senator of the TU Chemnitz. In 1989 the Technical University of Zwickau awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 1990 he retired.
Horst Weber lives in Chemnitz.
Publications (selection)
- Horst Weber (Ed.): Basics of machining , Verlag Technik, Berlin, 1986, ISBN 3-341-00038-0 .
- Horst Weber, W. Plätzer, Walter Hiebsch: Flush and round milling: New working methods , Verlag Technik, Berlin, 1955.
literature
- Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU Chemnitz (Ed.): Honorary Colloquium Innovation Machining Technology: Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr.-Ing. Eh Horst Weber , 2005, ISBN 978-3-937524-38-2 .
- Andreas Herbst : Weber, Horst . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Horst Weber in the catalog of the German National Library
- tu-chemnitz.de: Short biography of Horst Weber
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 358.
- ↑ tu-chemnitz.de: Honorary Senators Chemnitz University of Technology
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weber, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German university professor, professor of production engineering |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |