Ludwig Binder (electrical engineer)

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Ludwig Binder (born May 26, 1881 in Ingolstadt ; † September 12, 1958 in Dresden ) was a German electrical engineer .

Life

Ludwig Max Binder was born in Ingolstadt in 1881 as the son of the wagon owner Ludwig Binder and his wife Walburga Pfaffel. He studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Munich and from 1904 worked for the Siemens & Schuckert works in Berlin . In July 1910 he received his doctorate from the TH Munich. From April 1919 he was a full professor for electrical engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt . Binder researched and taught about high voltage technology, electrical energy transmission and electrical machines. As early as the winter semester of 1920/21, Binder switched to a professorship at the Technical University of Dresden . He became director of the Institute for Heavy Current and High Voltage Technology and the Electrochemical Examination Office. Binder set up the high voltage hall from 1928 to 1931 . In 1932 he became rector of the TH Dresden. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

He was a full member from 1948 and from 1948 to 1958 Vice President of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and from 1949 a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin .

Ludwig Binder was married to Elfriede Schulzenberg, daughter of the Berlin bank director Bruno Schulzenberg, since 1921.

Honors

  • The Institute for Electrical Power Supply and High Voltage Technology, high voltage test hall at the TH Dresden is named after Ludwig Binder.

literature

  • Christa Wolf and Marianne Viefhaus: Directory of professors at TH Darmstadt, Darmstadt 1977, p. 25.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Members: Ludwig Binder, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, accessed on February 23, 2015 .
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Ludwig Binder. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 23, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Binder, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingolstadt
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1958
Place of death Dresden