Otto Emil Fritzsche

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Otto Emil Fritzsche (born May 5, 1877 in Berlin ; † October 2, 1962 in Freiberg ) was a German mechanical engineer and university professor .

Life

Otto Fritzsche's grave in Freiberg

Fritzsche grew up in Essen , where he graduated from high school in 1896. After an internship at Krupp and military service, he began his studies in 1898 at the Technical University of Dresden , which he graduated in 1902 with the overall rating "excellent". He then became an assistant to Richard Mollier . In December 1906 he received his doctorate in engineering.

After studying in Great Britain, Fritzsche returned to Essen, where he again worked for the Krupp company.

On October 1, 1910, he became a full professor of mechanics and engineering at the Freiberg Bergakademie . Immediately after the outbreak of World War I , he was drafted into army service. When he returned to Freiberg in 1919, his chair had been renamed "Machine Science and Technical Heat Science". Franz Kögler took over the area of ​​"mechanics, structural engineering and strength theory" .

From the winter semester of 1920 to the summer semester of 1922, Fritzsche was rector of the Bergakademie. During his term of office, the independent right to award doctorates as a Dr.-Ing. (1920) and the founding of the Society of Friends of the Bergakademie Freiberg (1921).

Schwarzenberg blower

In 1924 he set up a machine test field on the site of the disused “Reiche Zeche” mine . To Fritzsche's most deserving, is one that valuable technical monuments (including that of Christian Friedrich Brendel designed and Heinrich Ludwig Lattermann built Schwarzenberg blower ) on the waste dump of the mine "Alte Elisabeth" positioned and posterity could be obtained.

As chairman of the Academic Committee for Physical Activity , he campaigned for student sports and the construction of the academic sports field , which was inaugurated in 1931. In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges .

In 1947 Otto Fritzsche was made an honorary senator of the Bergakademie and retired two years later . He died in Freiberg in 1962 and was buried in the Donatsfriedhof .

Fonts

  • Investigations into the flow resistance of the gases in straight cylindrical pipes. Dissertation, Dresden University of Technology, 1907.
  • The Schwarzenberg blower. Its preservation on the Alte Elisabeth in Freiberg. A monument to Saxon mechanical engineering. Regional Association of Saxon Homeland Security, Dresden around 1936.

literature

  • W. Christian: Prof. Dr. Otto Fritzsche on his 80th birthday. In: Bergakademie , 1957/5, p. 247 f.
  • Otto Emil Fritzsche. Honorary colloquium. Bergakademie Freiberg, 1982.
  • Gerd Grabow: Rector, talented teacher and traditional scientist. In memory of the 130th birthday of Prof. Otto Emil Fritzsche. In: Report, News from Teaching and Research , 43/2007, p. 27. ( online as PDF)
  • Gerd Grabow : In memory of Otto Emil Fritzsche's 130th birthday. In: Journal for friends and sponsors of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg , 14/2007, p. 101 f. ( online as PDF)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://tu-freiberg.de/ze/archiv/geschichte/zeittafel
  2. ^ Otto Fritzsche: The inauguration of the new sports field of the Bergakademie. In: Blätter der Bergakademie Freiberg , 5/1931, pp. 10–12.
personal data
SURNAME Fritzsche, Otto Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 2nd October 1962
Place of death Freiberg