Oswald Bauer
Oswald Bauer (born January 31, 1876 in Goldingen , Kurland ; † August 2, 1936 in Berlin-Dahlem ) was a German-Baltic metal physicist and university professor .
Life
Oswald Bauer studied metallurgy at the Bergakademie Freiberg . In 1897 he became a member of the uncovering association Vandalia, which in 1918 merged with the Corps Montania Freiberg . After completing his studies with a diploma in 1901, he switched to the Bergakademie Berlin and the materials testing office in Berlin-Dahlem as an assistant in 1902 . Apart from a brief professorship in metallurgy at the Technical University of Breslau (1923), he was in the Berlin office until his death. From 1905 he was a private lecturer at the TH Charlottenburg in addition to his work at the materials testing office . In 1908 he was appointed professor . In 1918 he was promoted to head of department. In 1924 he was appointed deputy director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Metal Research , which was temporarily affiliated with the materials testing office, and head of the main department. In 1927 he was appointed director of the materials testing office and in 1934 its deputy president. From 1929 he was chairman of the German Society for Metallurgy .
Bauer was a recognized expert in the field of the constitution and corrosion phenomena of metals.
As a German Baltic he was a member of the Baltic Trust Council. Between 1923 and 1933 he was a "Scientific Member" of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG), then an "External Scientific Member" of the KWG.
Awards
- Dr.-Ing. E. h. the RWTH Aachen (1922)
Fonts
- with Eugen Deiss: Sampling and analysis of iron and steel , 1912.
- Segregation phenomena in metal alloys , 1921.
- Metallography , 1926.
- with Max Hansen: The Structure of Copper-Zinc Alloys , 1927.
- The chrome plating with special consideration of its application in automobile construction , 1934.
- The corrosion of metallic materials , 1936 (co-editor)
literature
- Bauer, Oswald. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 71.
- Hugo Racine: Bauer, Oswald. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 644 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Oswald Bauer. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Literature by and about Oswald Bauer in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bauer, Oswald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bauer, Oswald Adolph Friedrich Theodor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic metal physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goldingen , Courland |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 2, 1936 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Dahlem |