Kurt Rauh

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Kurt Ernst Rauh (born December 6, 1897 in Plauen , † April 18, 1952 in Aachen ) was a German mechanical engineer and university professor.

Life

Kurt Rauh was the son of a teacher at the community school in Plauen. After graduating from secondary school in Plauen in 1916 and two years of military service in the First World War with deployments in Flanders and Russia, most recently as a non-commissioned officer, he studied mechanical engineering at the TU Dresden from 1919 with a diploma in 1921. He then worked for the Mühlenbauanstalt und Maschinenfabrik Gebr. Seck in Dresden - Zschachwitz , which played a leading role in mechanical engineering for beer breweries. In 1922 Rauh returned to the TU Dresden as an assistant to Rudolf Hundhausen (1864–1946), a student of Franz Reuleaux , who built up a large collection of machine models and joint mechanisms in Dresden, based on the model in Berlin , before returning to industry at the end of the year as a design engineer at the company Buch- und Kartonagenmaschinen O. Hoppe in Leipzig .

In 1923 Rauh moved to the F. Soennecken company in Bonn as head of the design office, responsible for patents and from 1925 as assistant to the operations director. The company manufactured office supplies and furnishings. A year later he became Karl Vormfelde's assistant at the Agricultural University of Bonn- Poppelsdorf at the Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Physics and dealt increasingly with agricultural machine technology. At that time, the university did not have the right to award doctorates and therefore Rauh received his doctorate in 1927 at the TH Hannover under Arthur Pröll with his dissertation: Investigation and further development of the transmission with periodic back and forth and acceleration-free operation .

A year later he completed his habilitation at RWTH Aachen University and was also taken on as a private lecturer for transmission theory, but remained main assistant in Bonn-Poppelsdorf until 1934. In Aachen in 1935 he was appointed associate professor and in 1939 extraordinary professor for gear theory, mechanical engineering and patent theory. In the 1930s he published a monograph in the subject of transmission theory and gave public lectures on the radio on patent law.

During the Second World War , Rauh was employed as an engineer in the staff service of the Reichsluftwaffe with the rank of major. In 1946, after a brief internment, he returned to Aachen and was banned from working for a few months until, in October 1947, during the denazification process, he was classified in Group IV without a property freeze. Then Rauh taught again at RWTH and in 1951 completed a study trip to the USA. A few months after his return to Aachen, he died of a serious illness.

Fonts (selection)

  • Practical transmission theory , 2 volumes, Springer, 1931, 1939
  • Guide gear , VDI Verlag 1935
  • Lectures on patent theory at the Technical University of Aachen , Bonn: Soennecken 1947
  • Development lines in agricultural machinery , Essen: Girardet 1949
  • Construction of processing machines , Essen: Girardet 1950 (text and photo book)

literature

  • Burkhard Corves: Kurt Rauh (1897–1952) , in: Marco Ceccarelli (Ed.), D istinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science , Volume 3, Springer 2014, pp. 231–262

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personal data
SURNAME Rough, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rauh, Kurt Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1952
Place of death Aachen