Ludwig Gumbel

Ludwig Karl Friedrich Gümbel (born March 12, 1874 in Sankt Julian , † February 8, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German shipbuilding engineer .

family

Gümbel was the son of pastor and high school professor Karl Ludwig Gümbel (1842–1911), the driving force behind the construction of the Protestation Church in Speyer , and the grandson of the painter Johann Karl Koch . His great uncles were the botanist Theodor Gümbel (1812–1858) and the geologist Wilhelm von Gümbel (1828–1898). His cousin was the first Federal President Theodor Heuss . Gümbel was married to Olga Catharina Dietz (* 1882), daughter of a New York merchant, with whom he had three sons and a daughter.

Live and act

Gümbel attended high school in Speyer and studied at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg . After his first job at the Schichau works , he became office manager of the mechanical engineering department of the Hamburg-America line . In 1906 he was the deputy director of the North German machine and armatures factory, which later became the Atlas works in Bremen . He did his doctorate on the factory organization of shipyards. In 1910 he accepted an appointment as full professor at the TH Berlin. Significant achievements of Gümbel concerned the vibrations of ship hulls, the frictional resistance of ship hulls, the theory of the screw propeller and - for the whole mechanical engineering - studies on the lubrication of the machines. During the First World War , Gümbel initially served as a company commander, but was called by the Imperial Navy , where he took on key tasks in building the submarine fleet for the submarine warfare promoted by the German Reich .

Honors

• 1914 Silver Medal of the Shipbuilding Society

Works

• Level transverse vibrations ... with special consideration of the vibration problem in shipbuilding . In: Yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society 1901
• Factory organization with special consideration of the requirements of shipyards . In: Yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society 1910
• The problem of surface resistance . In: Yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society 1913
• The problem of the screw propeller . In: Yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society 1914
• The influence of lubrication on the construction . In: Yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society 1917

literature

• Emil Everling: Gümbel, Ludwig Carl Friedrich: ord. Professor for ship boilers, ship auxiliary machines, etc. Machine drawing on d. Technical University of Charlottenburg, b. March 12, 1874 in St. Julian (Rheinpfalz), died February 8, 1923 in Berlin. In: Deutsches biographisches Jahrbuch 1923 (1930), pp. 143-145
• Georg Schnadel:  Ludwig Gümbel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 258 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Karlhein Schauder: "Oh, how do I flutter the nerff": half Swabian, half Palatine: Theodor Heuss, the first Federal President, and his relatives on the left bank of the Rhine. In: Die Rheinpfalz / all regional editions 56 (2000), No. 180 from August 5th, supplement to the weekend (genealogical table Gümbel)

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Gümbel in the catalog of the German National Library