Karl Humburg

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Karl Humburg (born October 21, 1884 in Eschwege ; † April 7, 1978 ) was a professor of electrical engineering .

Life

After studying electrical engineering at the TH Munich , Humburg worked for Siemens-Schuckertwerke in Berlin from 1907 to 1910 . In 1911 he received his doctorate at the Electrotechnical Institute of the Technical University of Munich with the thesis The pendulum in DC motors with reversing poles .

In 1924 he was appointed to the newly established third chair for electrical engineering at the TH Hannover . In addition to his teaching area of ​​electrical machines, he also represented high-voltage technology until 1927 and, from 1935, power converter technology. He retired around 1953. After Georg Dettmar's death in 1950, he had completed his manuscript on the history of electrical engineering.

In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

Publications

  • The DC machine
  • The synchronous machine; 1942
  • The origin of torque in electrical machines. ETZ 71 (1950), pp. 311-313

literature

  • ETZ-B vol. 16 (1964)
  • TH Hannover (ed.): Catalogus Professorum. The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1856 , Hanover: Technical University of 1956, p. 195.

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personal data
SURNAME Humburg, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German electrical engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschwege
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1978