Joseph Sebastian Cammerer

Joseph Sebastian Cammerer (born November 5, 1892 in Munich ; died August 30, 1983 in Tutzing on Lake Starnberg) was a German engineer.

Along with Klaus Hencky, the first scientific director of the Research Institute for Thermal Protection and his successor Ernst Schmidt, Cammerer is one of the researchers who built up the modern technology of thermal and cold protection on a scientific basis after the First World War.

During the Nazi era , Cammerer campaigned for persecuted Jews.

Life

He grew up as the son of the King. District judge Johann Baptist Cammerer and his wife Wilhelmine, b. Plasi.

He studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich . In 1920 he worked as an assistant in the Research Institute for Heat Protection eV (then “Research Home for Heat Protection”) in Munich. In 1922 he was scientific director at the German Prioformwerke in Cologne. He received his doctorate in 1924 under privy councilor Carl Wilhelm Hermann Oskar Knoblauch , head of the laboratory for technical physics at the Technical University of Munich, as a Dr.-Ing. and became scientific director at Rheinhold & Co., Berlin. From 1928 until his voluntary resignation in 1935, he was a private lecturer for heat, cold and noise protection at the TH in Berlin . In 1938 he founded a private research laboratory in Tutzing and, after the war, mainly accepted research assignments from the Federal Ministries for Housing and Economics and the German Research Foundation in Bad Godesberg. He also advised the industry.

His scientific work was reflected in many publications and especially in his books.

During the Nazi era, Cammerer campaigned for persecuted Jews and was awarded a prize by the State of Israel in 1969. In addition, in March 1971 he was presented with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

After the war, Cammerer studied theology in Munich and was ordained a priest in 1962. His professor, Bishop Aurelian Bilgeri , gave him leave for further consultations on building physics.

Fonts (selection)

• The heat and cold protection in industry . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1928, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-662-37016-2 .
• Reinhold & Mahla GmbH. - Table of all the important sizes for heat, cold and sound insulation . Rheinhold & Co. GmbH, Mannheim 1935.
• The constructive principles of heat and cold protection in residential and industrial buildings . Springer, Berlin 1936, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-91459-1 .
• The glass wall . Pfeiffer, Munich 1969, OCLC 226114194 (essays on the dichotomy between natural sciences and theology).
• Second part - The materials for refrigeration machines and systems. Building and thermal insulation materials . In: Handbuch der Kältetechnik . tape 1 : Development of economic importance of materials. . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-662-11680-7 , pp. 316 ff . ( books.google.de - excerpt).

literature

• Israel Gutman, Daniel Fraenkel, Jacob Borut: Cammerer, Josef Sebastian . In: Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations: Germans and Austrians . 2nd Edition. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-89244-900-3 , p. 89-91 ( books.google.de ).
• Helmut Künzel: Memories of Dr.-Ing. habil. Joseph Sebastian Cammerer on the occasion of the 25th year of his death . In: Building Physics . tape 30 , no. 5 , October 27, 2008, ISSN  0171-5445 , p. 340–345 , doi : 10.1002 / bapi.200810043 (also in: Communications from the Research Institute for Heat Protection eV, issue 23, April 2009).

Web links

• Literature by and about JS Cammerer in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Catalogus Professorum - Josef Sebastian Cammerer. In: tu-berlin.de. tu-berlin.de, accessed on August 16, 2018 . 
2. ^ Anton Maria Keim: Yad Vashem. The rescuers of Jews from Germany . Grünewald, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-459-01523-3 .