Martin Scheffler

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Martin Scheffler

Martin Scheffler (born September 18, 1919 in Leipzig ; † August 24, 2013 there ; full name: Martin Alfred Scheffler ) was a German mechanical engineer and university professor .

Life

After graduating from the Nikolaischule in Leipzig , Scheffler was drafted into military service in 1938 and trained as a radio operator . During World War II he was mainly in Norway at the airfield Bardufoss stationed there after the completion of a short course at the Air Force School Halle (Saale) to Lieutenant been promoted.

He came after the war until American and then in Soviet captivity . He spent most of the year-long American captivity in Attichy, France . Before that, however, he went through the notorious Rhine meadow camps in Bad Kreuznach . After his release from American captivity, on the way home, he was taken into Soviet captivity and spent three years in camps in the Moscow area . He came back to Markkleeberg from Soviet captivity in 1949 and began to work as a designer at VEB Verlade- und Transportanlagen "Paul Fröhlich", formerly Bleichert . He was employed there until 1961. Most recently he held the position of chief technologist.

From 1951 to 1958 he completed a distance learning course at the Technical University of Dresden , which he completed with a thesis on the "wire rope hoist in cable cranes" . He had already studied mechanical engineering for two semesters at this university in 1942 and 1943 . Immediately after completing his distance learning course, he continued his scientific career with an unscheduled traineeship at the Mechanical Engineering Faculty of the Technical University of Dresden and in 1963 defended his dissertation “The synchronization of loading bridges with central and separate bridge drive” with magna cum laude and was awarded a doctorate in engineering .

In 1961 he was appointed to a professorship for the chair of " conveyor technology " at the university, which has now been renamed the Technical University of Dresden. However, the appeal process dragged on until 1967, as he was not prepared to submit to the political doctrine of the SED-led university policy at the time. Ultimately, his specialist knowledge prevailed, and he was the only non-party professor to be appointed to the Technical University of Dresden after 1967 until the end of the GDR . Until 1985, the year of his retirement , he headed the chair for conveyor technology. Even after his retirement, he continued to work in his field, in particular in the publication of specialist books and as a guest and lecturer at international conferences. In 1992 he received an award for his work in conveyor technology from the Technical University of Berlin . He was the first person in the former GDR to be awarded an honorary doctorate by the TU Berlin .

Martin Scheffler died in Leipzig in 2013. His grave is on the Auenfriedhof-Ost in Markkleeberg.

Scientific work

Scheffler's most important scientific achievement lies in the crane building sector . With his investigations, he made a significant contribution to researching the behavior and dimensioning of bridge cranes and loading bridges. He also gave important impulses to the developing consideration of constructions according to the operational strength. The multi-volume textbook series for conveyor technology, in which he acted as an author and editor alongside others, is unique for the subject. One of the aims of his work was to replace the previously mostly descriptive presentation of the subject with a scientific foundation. During his time at the TU Dresden, he supervised fifty doctoral students and more than a thousand diploma students who carried out research in the fundamental areas of conveyor technology theoretically and experimentally. It is also his merit to have considered and presented the development of the field of conveyor technology that began around 1870.

Participation in committees

estate

Martin Scheffler's estate is kept in the university archive of the Technical University of Dresden .

Publications (selection)

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  • Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , pp. 824-825 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Günter Kunze, Dietrich Severin and Konrad Voge: Steadiness and breaks - history of conveyor technology at the TU Dresden and the life of Martin Scheffler . Published by the Chair for Construction Machinery and Conveyor Technology at the TU Dresden; 1st edition 2015

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personal data
SURNAME Scheffler, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheffler, Martin Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 2013
Place of death Leipzig