Karl Marguerre

Karl Marguerre (born May 28, 1906 in Baden in the canton of Aargau , Switzerland , † November 16, 1979 in Darmstadt ) was a German engineering scientist, university lecturer for mechanics and musician.

Life

Karl Marguerre was the son of General Director Friedrich Marguerre (1878–1964) and between 1924 and 1929 he studied chemistry and then mathematics in Karlsruhe and Göttingen. During a stay abroad in Brussels , he received his doctorate in 1932 with a thesis on "Stress distribution and wave propagation in the continuously supported plate". His supervisors were the mathematicians Horst von Sanden (1883–1965), TH Hannover, and Theodor Pöschl (1882–1955) at the TH Karlsruhe. In 1935 he completed his habilitation at the TH Karlsruhe under Theodor Pöschl and began working at the Institute for Strength of the German Aviation Research Institute (DVL) in Berlin-Adlershof . In 1944 he was appointed professor in the Reich Service. Before the end of the war, the institute was relocated to Saulgau in southern Germany. After the French troops marched in, a "Center techniques de Wasserburg" (CTW) was established there. From there, Marguerre and numerous other German scientists came to the state-owned aeronautical research company ONERA in Paris, an institute comparable to the DVL. In 1947 he was appointed acting representative of Wilhelm Schlink's chair for technical mechanics.

A full appeal was not yet possible at this point, as denazification was still pending. Marguerre, who was a member of the SA with the rank of Rottenführer, was initially classified as a fellow traveler. His contradiction against it was successful. In July 1948 he was classified as exonerated. He could then be appointed to the professorship with effect from January 1, 1949.

In his scientific work, Marguerre has focused on stability problems , energy methods and voltage functions. In particular, the theory of elastic plates , which is the subject of technical mechanics , was a main topic for him.

Marguerre was dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics three times. In the academic year 1966/67 he was also rector of the TH Darmstadt. This was a time when u. a. the development plan O 10 for the extension of the university to the Lichtwiese campus had just been approved and the construction planning for this new location was in full swing. The university also fought hard to find a new structure. In his inaugural speech on November 25, 1966 with the topic "Mathematics and Mechanics. Mathematics and Music" he presented the mutual relationships between these areas very impressively.

Marguerre, who was especially familiar with Mozart's works, was a passionate musician . Shortly after he assumed office in Darmstadt, he founded the University Orchestra, in 1951 also was the high school choir launched. With both institutions he has given numerous concerts in Darmstadt, the region and abroad. Even after his retirement in 1974, he remained loyal to these institutions. In recognition of his services to the musical life of the TH Darmstadt, the TH awarded him the Erasmus Kittler Medal in 1977.

In addition to intensive music-making, Marguerre has also edited musical works, including the first Urtext version of Mozart's violin sonatas at UE Vienna (1979), and written musicological treatises. In 1962/63 the Mozart-Jahrbuch published his essay on Süßmayr's passages in Mozart's Requiem. Marguerre left her own addition to the work, which after revision by his granddaughter, the orchestral musician Dorothee Heath, edited and on November 26, 2016 in Münster with the symphony orchestra and the concert choir of the city of Münster, and on November 26, 2017 with the Munich Court Choir in St. .Ottilien was listed again.

Marguerre died on November 16, 1979 in Darmstadt at the age of 73. He was married to Renate Spannhake since 1932. Several children arose from the marriage.

Honors

• 1962: Admission to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle
• 1977: Erasmus Kittler Medal from the TH Darmstadt

Works

• Technical mechanics. 3 volumes. Springer, Berlin 1967ff.
• (together with Hans-Theo Woernle): Elastic plates. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 1975, ISBN 3-411-01454-7 .
• Concerts of the Darmstadt University Orchestra 1948–1979. Darmstadt 1984.
• Stress distribution and wave propagation in the continuously supported plate. J. Springer 1993 (22 pages).
• Mozart's chamber music and piano. Wilhelmshaven 1999.
• Mozart's violin sonatas (3 volumes). Vienna 1979.

literature

• Karl Marguerre, in: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt . Stuttgart 2006, p. 602.
• The mechanics in Darmstadt, in: 100 years of the Technical University of Darmstadt . Yearbook 1977/78,
• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 929f and p. 1028f (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Marguerre in the catalog of the German National Library