Max Rudeloff

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Max Rudeloff

Max Rudeloff (born October 23, 1857 in Hinrichshagen ; † July 18, 1929 in Berlin ) was a German engineer , professor of materials testing and director of the Royal Materials Testing Office in Berlin.

Life

Max Rudeloff attended high schools in Wittstock and Waren (Müritz) and entered the Hansa shipbuilding and mechanical engineering institute in Rostock as a student in 1874. He passed his Abitur in October 1878 in Rostock . In the winter semester of 1878/79, Rudeloff enrolled at the Technical University of Charlottenburg for the subject of mechanical engineering. In the winter semester of 1879/80 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin. As a one-year volunteer , he served in the military from October 1, 1880 to September 30, 1881. In February 1883 he passed his exams.

On March 1, 1883, he became an assistant at the Mechanical and Technical Research Institute of the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg. On April 1, 1890, Rudeloff was promoted to head of the materials testing department. When he became aware of his services, the Prussian Ministry of Culture awarded him the title of professor on December 19, 1894, and on December 10, 1908, he was given the title of a secret councilor. After the death of the first director of this office, Professor Adolf Martens († July 24, 1914), Rudeloff was appointed director of the facility on May 12, 1915. From the winter semester of 1897/98, Rudeloff taught materials testing at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg. The university appointed him on September 16, 1922 as a full honorary professor. At the same time he taught officers at the Military Technical Academy in Berlin-Charlottenburg for ten years from 1905 . In 1922 he was appointed to the board of trustees of the Chemisch-Technische Reichsanstalt .

From 1902 to 1911 Rudeloff was the editor of the “ Polytechnisches Journal ”, founded by JG Dingler in 1820 . His research mainly focused on the influence of heat and deformation on the strength properties of common metals as materials. Rudeloff published this and several other research findings in specialist journals.

honors and awards

In 1913 he was awarded the Royal Crown Order III. Class awarded.

The Technical University of Friedericiana in Karlsruhe awarded him the honorary title of doctoral engineer for his entire work on November 25, 1918.

Rudeloff was a full member of the Prussian Academy of Building.

On May 16, 1938, the Rudeloffweg in Berlin-Dahlem was named after him.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Weigandt: History of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin to Aachen 1867-1967 . Aachen 1968.
  2. ^ Alfred G. Meyer: Chronicle of the Royal Technical University of Berlin 1884–1899 - Mechanical-Technical Research Institute , pp. 265–268. As part II of: Eduard Dobbert : Chronicle of the Royal Technical University of Berlin 1799–1899 , 1899
  3. ^ The messages from the materials testing office in Berlin-Dahlem. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 42, No. 59 (July 22, 1922), p. 347.
  4. ^ Official notices: Prussia. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 33, No. 99 (December 13, 1913), p. 685.
  5. Rudeloffweg. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )