Julius Precht

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Julius Precht (full name: Karl Christian Julius Precht * June 28, 1871 in Bremen ; † July 9, 1942 in Hanover ) was a German physicist and professor at the TH Hanover .

Life

Aerial photography ( balloon photo ) with a view of the Waterlooplatz , the Hanover Police Department and the later Schützenplatz ;
Postcard no. K 29 from F. Astholz jun. , around 1910

Precht studied in Heidelberg, Berlin and Bonn. He received his doctorate in 1893 at the University of Bonn with the dissertation Magnetic behavior of electrical discharges in air from normal pressure and completed his habilitation in 1897 at the University of Heidelberg . From 1900 he taught there as an associate professor and in 1901 became a lecturer in experimental physics and photography at the TH Hannover. In 1906 he became professor of physics and head of the physics institute.

From 1924 to 1934 Precht represented physics at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover as an honorary professor . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

In 1935 Precht retired early because there were political reservations about him. One of his scientific opponents was the representative of " German Physics " Johannes Stark , who went to RWTH Aachen University on his account .

Precht's daughter was Gerritje Meldau , a graduate chemist and women's rights activist , wife of the dust technician and patent attorney Robert Meldau .

Fonts

  • Studies on cathode rays , 1897 (= habilitation thesis)
  • Risk of explosion with radium . In: Physikalische Zeitschrift . 7th year, No. 2 (Jan 15, 1906), pp. 33-34

literature

  • Catalogus Professorum , University of Hanover, 1981 ISBN 3-487-13115-3
  • Julius Precht , in: DBE, Vol. 7, de Gruyter Saur, 2007, p. 59
  • Michael Jung: "Our hearts beat with enthusiasm for the Führer": The Technical University of Hanover and its professors in National Socialism , BoD, Norderstedt 2013, esp. P. 103ff, partly online

Web links

Commons : Julius Precht  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Precht, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Precht, Karl Christian Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist, photographer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1942
Place of death Hanover