Ilse Knott-ter Meer

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Ilse Knott-ter Meer , born as Ilse ter Meer , (* 14. October 1899 in Hannover , † 3. November 1996 in Rottach-Egern ) was one of the first German mechanical engineering - engineers with the academic degree Dipl.-Ing.

Life

Emergency money from 1916 from Hanomag ;
Signatures Gustav ter Meer , Erich Metzeltin ...

Through her father, Gustav ter Meer, Ilse ter Meer already got an interest in steam engines, cars and technical things. At the Realgymnasium (for boys) in Hanover, she passed her Abitur and then studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Hanover from 1919 to 1922 and at the Technical University of Munich from 1922 to 1924 . At that time the male students could not do much with a woman in the lecture hall and vented their displeasure by stamping and whistling. But there were also fellow students who protected their fellow students against verbal attacks.

In 1924 Ilse ter Meer (together with Wilhelmine Vogler) completed her mechanical engineering studies at the Technical University of Munich. In 1925 she married Carl Knott , a graduate engineer in electrical engineering , and moved with him to Aachen, where she worked in her own office. Among other things, she represented the patents on centrifugal machines for wastewater treatment that her father, Gustav ter Meer, had developed at the time as director at Hanomag . Also in 1925 Ilse Knott-ter Meer became the first female member of the Association of German Engineers (VDI).

She then worked at Siemens & Halske in Berlin, gave birth to two sons in 1932 and 1935, worked as a freelancer and accompanied her husband on trips. From 1929 she was a member of the British Women Engineers' Society . On the occasion of the World Power Conference in Berlin in 1930, she organized the first meeting of German women engineers.

From 1956 she was a member of the advisory board of the VDI specialist group building services and headed the office of the general agency of a US electrical appliance manufacturer. In 1960 she was one of the six founders of the VDI Committee for Women in Engineering . In 1964, she participated as a representative of the Federal Republic of Germany at the first international conference of women engineers in New York. At the VDI she gave lectures on household technology and worked on the REFA Housekeeping Committee.

In 1987 her husband Carl Knott died after 62 years of marriage. She spent her last years in the Rupertihof residential monastery in Rottach-Egern, where at the age of over 90 she kept up to date on electrical engineering and electronics through specialist magazines. After her death, her urn was buried at her husband's side on November 18, 1996.

Honors

literature

  • Hans Herpich: Monumenta Germaniae II. Memorial sheets of the Corps Germania in Munich. Ingolstadt 1968.
  • N / A: In Memoriam. In: Corps Germania Nachrichten , issue WS 1996/97 (January 1997), p. 54.
  • Klaus Mlynek : Ter Mer, Ilse. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein u. a. (Ed.): Stadtlexikon Hannover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 618 f.

See also

Web links

PDF document from the Technical University of Munich with key data from Ilse Knott's life

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.techtower.de ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.techtower.de
  2. ↑ Ilse-ter-Meer-Weg. In: Helmut Zimmermann : Hanover's street names. Changes since 1997. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Volume 54 (2002?), P. 183.
personal data
SURNAME Knott-ter Meer, Ilse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1996
Place of death Rottach-Egern