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Klaus Federn (born December 21, 1910 in Berlin ; † June 26, 2014 there ) was a German university professor for mechanics and mechanical engineering.

Life

Klaus Gideon Federn was born in 1910 as the son of the author, publisher and art dealer Robert Federn (1878–1959) and the sculptor Luise Federn-Staudinger . His uncle was the chemist and Nobel Prize winner Hermann Staudinger , his maternal grandmother the women's rights activist Auguste Staudinger . In 1912 the sister Else was born in Paris. After the parents separated, the mother moved with the two children to her hometown Darmstadt in 1917. From 1920 Klaus Federn attended the Realgymnasium in Darmstadt. After graduating from high school on Easter 1929, he was accepted into the German National Academic Foundation . In the winter semester of 1929/30 he began studying mechanical engineering at what was then the Technical University of Darmstadt . During his studies he was assistant to Alwin Walther from the winter semester 1930/31 to the winter semester 1932/33 . Klaus Federn was a “half-Jew” according to the Nazi laws. He resigned from his position as assistant assistant in 1933 for “racial reasons”. In 1935 Federn graduated with distinction. His uncle Hermann Staudinger supported him again and again during his studies.

From 1935, Federn worked as a private assistant for August Thum at the chair for materials science and materials testing institute at the TH Darmstadt. This employment took place “against the sharp resistance on the part of some of his assistants at the time and against the stressed hostility of the student body” (Hanel 2013, p. 78). Under pressure from the Hessian government, he was dismissed shortly before completing his dissertation in mid-1939. Feder therefore switched to the Darmstadt-based company Carl Schenck AG, which specializes in testing and balancing machines . On June 1, 1945, he took over the management of the testing and balancing machines department. In 1951 he received full power of attorney for the Carl Schenck machine works.

Feder had completed his habilitation at the TH Darmstadt as early as 1947, and from 1948 he gave his first lectures on vibration engineering and balancing technology. In July 1953 the TH Darmstadt appointed him extraordinary professor. In April 1962, Federn was offered the chair for machine elements at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin . After intensive negotiations, he moved to the TU Berlin on July 10, 1963. Up to his retirement on March 31, 1979, Federn worked as a university professor, founder and head of the chair and institute for engineering design and machine elements and dean of the mechanical engineering faculty at the TU Berlin.

Klaus Federn married Ingeborg Kliehm at the turn of the year 1948/49. The marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter. He died with great honor on June 26, 2014 in his native Berlin.

Honors

Works

  • 1939: State of stress and fracture formation, dissertation.
  • 1947: Electrical fine balancing machines, habilitation thesis.

literature

  • Robert Gasch, Klaus Federn, Robert Liebich, Heinz Mertens (eds.): Klaus Federn - An appreciation of his life, Springer 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-17268-7
  • Melanie Hanel: The Technical University of Darmstadt in the “Third Reich”, dissertation, Darmstadt 2013.
  • Still very present, in: hoch3, February 2011, p. 7.
  • Mona Niebur: Klaus Federn is 100 years old, in: TU intern, 12/2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Federn was from 1906 to 1908 bookstore assistant and Compagnon at Hugo Heller's in Vienna


personal data
SURNAME Springs, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor for mechanics and mechanical engineering
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 2014
Place of death Berlin