Max Reich (physicist)

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Max Reich as a fraternity student (1894)
Max Reich, Göttingen 1923

Max Gustav Hermann Reich (born May 16, 1874 in Görlitz , † January 20, 1941 in Göttingen ) was a German physicist .

life and work

Reich studied physics in Heidelberg and Berlin , where he received his doctorate under Emil Warburg in 1899 ( on electrical conduction of pure substances ). In Heidelberg, Reich joined the Leonensia association . In 1900 he went to Hermann Theodor Simon at the Physikalischer Verein in Frankfurt am Main and followed this in 1905 to the then newly founded Institute for Applied Electricity in Göttingen , before going to Jena, where he did his habilitation and did research.

After his habilitation, he left Jena and in 1909 went to Göttingen to set up the radio-electrical research institute for the army and navy, which he headed. In the summer of 1910 he took part in the study trip of the Zeppelin expedition to Spitzbergen , which had the goal of exploring the possibilities of exploring the Arctic by airship . In 1914 he became a professor. During the First World War he was first captain of artillery and undertook from 1915 Torpedo trials for the Imperial Navy in Kiel (head of the torpedo test commands). There he was also involved in the use of light telegraphy and light telephony (via a speaking arc lamp) developed with Simon, which the military promised to provide secure wireless communication.

He then went back to Göttingen, where he succeeded HT Simon, who died in 1918, initially as his representative and in 1920 as head of the Institute for Applied Electricity. In 1920 he became a full professor (first associate professor, but in the same year he also received a personal professorial chair) for applied electricity. From the winter semester 1932/33 to 1937 he was dean of the mathematics and natural sciences faculty. Since 1933 he was a member of the NSDAP . In 1939 he was again in military research (head of the Navy's intelligence test command) and even before that he worked at his institute with the Army Weapons Office . In 1940 he officially retired.

In addition to radio technology, he dealt with many other electrical applications such as piezoelectricity , glow emission , electric arcs, electroacoustics and vacuum technology .

Since 1937 he was a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . He received the Gauß Weber Medal from the University of Göttingen.

literature

  • Rainer G. Ulbrich: Max Reich. In: Karl Arndt u. a .: Scholars from Göttingen. Wallstein 2001, ISBN 978-3892444855 .
  • Gerhard Rammer The Nazification and Denazification of Physics at the University of Göttingen. Dissertation, Göttingen 2004 ( online , accessed on August 19, 2010).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Gustav Hermann Reich: About electrical conduction of pure substances . Printed by E. Ebering, Berlin 1900 (Inaug.-Diss., Berlin, 1899).
  2. ↑ Max Gustav Hermann Reich: About the size and temperature of the negative arc crater . Printed by A. Pries, Leipzig 1905 (habilitation thesis, Jena).
  3. ↑ Adolf Miethe and Hugo Hergesell (eds.): With Zeppelin to Spitzbergen . Bong, Berlin 1911
personal data
SURNAME Reich, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reich, Max Gustav Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1941
Place of death Goettingen