Karl Strecker (engineer)

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Karl Georg Bernhard Christian Strecker (born March 26, 1858 in Mainz , † August 24, 1934 in Heidelberg ) was a German physicist and electrical engineer.

Life

Strecker was the son of the manufacturer Wilhelm Christian Strecker and his wife Wilhelmine Ida Scholz. After finishing school, Strecker began to study physics at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen in 1877 : later he switched to Heidelberg in the same subject. In 1881 Strecker was able to successfully complete his studies with a doctorate on February 16 at the University of Strasbourg .

Strecker got a job as an assistant at the physics institute there from his doctoral supervisor . In the following year, Strecker moved to the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg until 1884, where he also worked at the Physics Institute . When an electrotechnical laboratory was set up at the Royal Technical University of Berlin in 1884 , Strecker was there as a consultant.

Through this consultancy, Strecker made the acquaintance of the management of the German Edison Society and was recruited for the years 1885 to 1886. There in Berlin he married Luise Julie Wilhelmine Anna Sandberger on October 10, 1885; with her he had a daughter.

In 1886, his research brought Strecker a habilitation in electromechanics at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg and as such he received a license to teach as a private lecturer. In this function, he was responsible for the publication of the journal Progress in Electrical Engineering from 1887 to 1911 .

With effect from October 1, 1888, he was appointed senior telegraph engineer and appointed to the Reichspostamt Berlin and Reichspostministerium .

In 1892, Strecker was given a chair for electrotelegraphy (especially for railway operations) at the TH Berlin. For this purpose, electrotelegraphy was split off from Prof. Adolf Slabys' chair . In 1899 Strecker was promoted to titular professor at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg and one year later he was appointed Privy Postal Councilor .

Effective April 1, 1904, Strecker was appointed lecturer at the Reich Post Office in Berlin. During this time (1902-1904 or 1906) Julius Wallot worked as a lecturer at the Telegraph Experimental Office in Berlin under Strecker.

On the occasion of his 50th birthday in 1908, Strecker was appointed Secret Chief Post Councilor . On July 1, 1910, he was elected President of the Telegraphic Reichsamt Berlin and he held this office until March 28, 1920. His successor was Karl Willy Wagner . As president from 1912 to 1927, Strecker also acted as publisher of the Electrical Engineering Yearbook .

In 1913 Strecker was appointed full professor and in the winter semester of 1923 he was appointed honorary professor to Heidelberg at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics.

This and that

In 1911, Strecker asserted to Rudolf Franke that there was no interest in low-voltage technology and, at best, cited his 5 listeners in the last 20 years as evidence.

Honors

Works

  • About the specific heat of the chlorine, bromine and iodine gases . Leipzig 1881.
  • Auxiliary book for electrical engineering . Berlin 1887. (together with Carl Grawinkel )
  • The telegraph technology . Berlin 1889. (together with Carl Grawinkel)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honorary doctoral students of the TH / TU Dresden. Technical University of Dresden, accessed on February 1, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Strecker, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strecker, Karl Georg Bernhard Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1934
Place of death Heidelberg