Otto Mader
Otto Mader (born September 17, 1880 in Nuremberg , † September 9, 1944 in Landeck (Tyrol) ) was a German engineer.
Life
His parents were the major in the General Staff Franz Mader and Luise. He completed school and studies in Munich. In 1903/04 he started at the Münchner Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft and switched to MAN in Augsburg the following year. From 1906 to 1909 he did his doctorate at the TH Munich under Wilhelm Lynen and in October became a private assistant at the "Versuchsanstalt Prof. Junkers " in Aachen. In 1910 Junkers succeeded in getting Mader to represent him in the subject of heat engineering and in exercises in the machine laboratory at the TH Aachen. In 1912 he completed his habilitation there in measurement science.
In 1915, Junkers offered him the position of head of the newly founded Dessau Research Institute. Here aerodynamic investigations were carried out in the canal flow apparatus (wind tunnel) and experiments were carried out on the processing and use of duralumin . He also worked on the development and construction of the first all-metal aircraft, the Junkers J 1 . His main task was engine development.
During the First World War, he and Hans Steudel were technical directors of Junkers & Co.
In 1922, after Otto Reuter's death , he continued development at Junkers with Ernst Zindel .
From 1922 he was a member of the supervisory board of Junkers Flugzeugwerke AG, founded in 1919, and from 1923 technical director of Junkers Motorenbau GmbH.
On April 1, 1927, he was appointed professor for technical mechanics at the TH Munich. Due to the clique economy, he returned to Dessau on August 1, 1928.
He became a board member of Junkers-Werke and the TH Dresden awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1928.
On his 60th birthday he became an honorary member of the Lilienthal Society .
He died at the sanatorium Landeck (Tirol) on leukemia , accompanied by severe pneumonia .
Awards
- Commemorative coin of the Lilienthal Society (1937)
- Goethe Medal for Art and Science (1940)
literature
- Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoss : Mader, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 630 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://hugojunkers.bplaced.net/people-maa-ozz.html
- ↑ Honorary doctoral students of the TH / TU Dresden. Technical University of Dresden, accessed on February 3, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mader, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th September 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1944 |
| Place of death | Landeck |