Johannes Rudloff

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Johannes Rudloff, 1907, photo by Rudolf Dührkoop

Johannes Rudloff (born March 7, 1848 in Erfurt , † September 18, 1934 in Berlin-Halensee ) was a German shipbuilding engineer in the service of the Imperial Navy and the Reichsmarine and also a professor at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg .

Life

After attending the Royal Trade School in Erfurt, he began studying at the Royal Trade Academy in Berlin in 1866 .

marine

He then worked at the Royal Shipyard in Danzig , the naval depot in Kiel and completed his military service as a one-year volunteer in the Guard Pioneer Battalion . In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871 , he captured four French river cannon boats which, after being overhauled and repaired, were presented to Prince Friedrich Karl. After the war he worked as an engineer aspirant at the Imperial Shipyard and was appointed sub-engineer in 1872, where he was in charge of the overhaul of the Corvette Victoria , an early ship in the Prussian Navy . She was a Prussian smooth-deck corvette , built in France in 1864 , acquired by Prussia a year later and broken up in Hamburg in 1892 . After various construction supervision at the Stettiner Vulkan shipyard , the Kaiserliche Werft Kiel and the Germania shipyard in Kiel, he received on-board commands on the flagship Baden and the cruiser Kaiserin Augusta . With the latter he went to the United States of America as a member of a ship inspection commission .

In 1895 he was appointed as the successor to Brix as head of the shipbuilding department in the Reichsmarineamt in Berlin and also took over the role of the late chief designer Alfred Dietrich . He was responsible for the designs of liners and armored ships , small cruisers and gunboats . Technical questions of warship building were scientifically worked on and solved by him in this construction phase.

Teaching

In addition to his shipyard work, he taught for two years at the Naval School, from 1888 to 1894 at the Kiel Naval Academy and from 1902 to 1906 at the Technical University of Charlottenburg. After retiring from the navy, he was appointed to the Technical University of Charlottenburg in 1906 and taught here until 1913 in the subject of "designing warships". His services in the navy and in teaching led to the award of an honorary doctorate . He was a founding member of the Shipbuilding Society (STG) and was also considered the Nestor of German shipbuilding due to his lectures and publications .

Johannes Rudloff died in Berlin in 1934 at the age of 86 and was buried in the Dahlem forest cemetery. The grave has not been preserved.

Fonts

  • The development of the armored ships of the line . In: Yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society , Volume 1 (1900), pp. 593–638.
  • The safety of wrecked ships against capsizing. In: Yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society , Volume 21 (1920), pp. 437–476.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 587.
personal data
SURNAME Rudloff, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1934
Place of death Berlin-Halensee