Oswald Flamm

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Oswald Flamm, 1907, photo by Rudolf Dührkoop

Oswald Flamm (born July 30, 1861 in Düsseldorf , † June 12, 1935 in Berlin ) was a German shipbuilding and marine mechanical engineer.

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Oswald Flamm, the son of the landscape painter Albert Flamm , born in Düsseldorf in 1861, studied shipbuilding and marine engineering in Berlin at the Technical University of Charlottenburg . In 1888 he received the diploma for both fields.

After completing his studies, he worked in shipyards at Berninghaus in Duisburg, Joseph L. Meyer in Papenburg and Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, working in both fields.

At the age of 31 he was appointed lecturer at the chair for shipbuilding at the Technical University of Charlottenburg. Two years later he was appointed professor. He was appointed full professor of the chair for “Theory and Design of Ships” in 1897. For more than a generation, altogether 43 years, Flamm researched and taught drawing, designing ships and river shipbuilding. Until 1904, when the Royal Technical University of Danzig was founded, he taught and tested all German shipbuilding graduates.

The main subject of his research activities were the investigation of the effect of screw propellers, the stability of the ship and the construction of submarines . He recognized the importance of the shipbuilding test system very early on and advocated the construction of a shipbuilding test institute in Berlin. Largely because of his efforts, the experimental institute for hydraulic engineering and shipbuilding (VWS), today a central facility of the Technical University of Berlin, was built on the lock island in the Tiergarten.

Privy Councilor Flamm was considered a prominent figure in German shipbuilding. This was also evident from his significant involvement in the founding of the Shipbuilding Society and the German Fleet Association .

His son Hilger Flamm was a mechanical engineer and professor at the Technical University of Berlin .

Works

Soon after the founding of the specialist journal Schiffbau, Schiffahrt und Hafenbau , Flamm took over its editorial office. He has also given many lectures and written and edited several books:

  • Shipbuilding. Its history and its development. Publishing house for linguistics and business studies, Berlin 1907.
  • German shipbuilding 1908. Published on the occasion of the first German shipbuilding exhibition in Berlin. Marfels, Berlin 1908.
  • The propeller and its effect on the water. Photo-stereoscopic recordings with simultaneous energy and speed registrations of the screw working freely in the water . R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1909.

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SURNAME Flamm, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shipbuilding and marine mechanical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1935
Place of death Berlin