Ludwig Schiller (physicist)

Ludwig Schiller (born December 11, 1882 in Reusch near Weigenheim , Middle Franconia ; † August 24, 1961 in Weilburg ) was a German physicist at the University of Leipzig. He was a specialist in airship travel.

Life

Schiller studied from 1901 to 1919 at the Technical University of Munich , the University of Leipzig and the Georg-August University of Göttingen . In 1902 he became a member of the Corps Franconia Munich . In 1911 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In 1921 he completed his habilitation there in physics and airship travel. From 1921 to 1925 he was a private lecturer for physics and airship travel in Leipzig , from 1925 to 1926 a non-scheduled associate professor , from 1926 to 1945 a scheduled associate professor for applied mechanics and thermodynamics . In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . In 1945 he was evacuated to Weilburg by the US Army withdrawing from Leipzig. He lived there until 1958 as a private scholar . In 1957 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from RWTH Aachen University . From 1958 to 1961 he was associate professor for applied physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

Publications

• Three classics of fluid mechanics. Hagen, Poiseuille, Hagenbach , Leipzig 1933.

editor

• Handbuch der Experimentalphysik IV, Hydro- and Aerodynamics in 4 volumes , Leipzig 1931.

literature

• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1631.
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1931, Col. 2552; 1961, p. 1779.

Web links

• Ludwig Schiller (physicist) in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 106/698
2. ↑ Dissertation: Change in the dielectric constant of rubber when pulled perpendicular to the lines of force .
3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Investigations into laminar and turbulent flow .