Kurt Illies

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Kurt Illies (born November 18, 1908 in Hamburg ; † March 19, 1987 there ) was a German mechanical engineer and professor whose main focus was on the field of propulsion systems for ships.

Life

Illies was born in Hamburg in 1908, went to school here and completed his mechanical engineering internship at Blohm & Voss . In 1931 he completed his mechanical engineering studies with a diploma from the Technical University of Munich . He then went to sea for a few years, worked in various companies and joined the Blohm & Voss shipyard in 1935 . In 1942 he became head of the design office for steam boilers and steam turbines and improved the high-pressure hot steam systems based on the Benson principle . In addition to his professional activity, he worked on his doctoral thesis and in 1940 submitted his doctoral thesis to the Technical University of Braunschweig .

After the war, Illies initially worked for the mechanical engineering company Bau- und Montagegesellschaft Hamburg, which represented the interests of Blohm & Voss during the ban and the dismantling. In 1949 he received a teaching assignment at the Technical University of Hanover, from 1950 he was active as an honorary professor and in 1952 was appointed full professor for marine engineering at the Technical University of Hanover . In Hanover, under his key organization, the ship technology was rebuilt, since the ship technology was no longer available at the Danzig University and research was only allowed to a limited extent at the Technical University of Berlin .

After Illies had founded a working group there in 1955 to determine the most suitable type of reactor for a nuclear ship propulsion system, he founded the Society for Nuclear Energy Utilization in Shipbuilding and Shipping (GKSS) in Geesthacht in 1956 with the Kiel professor of nuclear physics, Erich Bagge, and drove the development of ship nuclear propulsion systems making decisive progress in Germany. Illie's basic work contributed significantly to the later construction of the nuclear-powered ore carrier Otto Hahn , but he parted with this project in 1960 because he saw the freedom of his research work threatened by economic interests.

Other activities and awards

In 1932 Illies became a member of the Shipbuilding Society , where he chaired the ship engineering committee. Here he was honored with the silver medal in 1963 and the gold medal in 1972. From 1967 to 1979 he was chairman of the Shipbuilding Society and was honored in 1979 with honorary membership. In 1977 Illies was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin for his services to shipbuilding research . He was also a member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) and the Association of German Engineers (VDI). Illies died on March 19, 1987 in Hamburg. In addition to many lectures and around 200 articles for specialist journals, Illies published a three-volume work on ship boilers as well as the manual for marine engineers and marine machinists (Ludwig / Illies) and later editions as sole author (today Meier-Peter / Bernhardt).

Fonts (selection)

  • Appropriate boiler designs for seagoing ships , yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society . Volume 44, Springer, Berlin 1950
  • Development of propulsion systems for seagoing ships , "Hansa", Volume 92
  • With Georg Schnadel: Research in shipbuilding before the wars and the activities of the British Shipbuilding Research Association , Schiffahrts-Verlag "Hansa", Hamburg, 1954
  • Nuclear energy for ship propulsion , Schiffahrts-Verlag "Hansa", Hamburg, 1957
  • Investigations on the improvement of the economic efficiency of steam propulsion systems , Schiffahrts-Verlag "Hansa", Hamburg, 1957
  • Handbook for marine engineers and marine machinists , Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1958
  • Schiffskessel , Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1960–1962
  • On the importance of technology and the task of the engineer , non-profit management company for science maintenance, Essen-Bredeney, 1963
  • With J. Legrand: The construction and operating costs of a nuclear energy propulsion system for merchant ships compared to those of conventional merchant ships under the assumption of equal use with the aim of equal profitability , European Atomic Energy Community, Brussels, 1964
  • Ship technology today and tomorrow , Schiffahrts-Verlag "Hansa", Hamburg, 1968
  • Handbook for ship operating technology , Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1972

literature

  • Georg Schnadel: Kurt Illies 70 Years , In: Schiff & Hafen , No. 28, 1976.
  • Kurt Illies , In: Yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society . Volume 81, Springer, Berlin 1987.
  • Willi Hager: Kurt Illies , In: Hydraulicians in Europe 1800–2000 , Volume 2, CRC Press, 2014.
  • TH Hannover (ed.): Catalogus Professorum. The teaching staff of the Technical University of Hanover 1831–1856 , Hanover: Technical University of 1956, p. 190.

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Alumni Campus https://www.uni-hannover.de/fileadmin/luh/content/alumni/alumnicampus/12_2014/alunetz_53-56.pdf
  2. ^ In the founder jungle , In: Der Spiegel , No. 32, August 3, 1960.
personal data
SURNAME Illies, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1987
Place of death Hamburg