Otto Schubert (tribologist)

Otto Schubert (born April 23, 1918 in Augsburg , † March 26, 1978 in Gießen ) was a German officer and since 1976 professor of tribology at the University of Applied Sciences Gießen .

Life

Schubert passed his Abitur in 1937 and was then drafted into the Reich Labor Service and the Wehrmacht . He embarked on the career of professional officer, rose to captain in the course of the Second World War and was most recently head of an assault gun battery. For his work he received both classes of the Iron Cross and the German Cross in Gold. At the end of the war, as a member of the Courland Army, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets . In the Altai he had to work in a lead mine. He suffered considerable physical damage from abuse and an accident at work; the amputation of the left lower leg was the result.

Otto Schubert returned from captivity at the end of 1948, studied chemistry , geography and biology in Erlangen and passed his state examination in 1952 .

After a temporary job in a steel mill, he found a job as a teacher at a higher school in Giessen in 1954 and finally switched to the engineering school in the same city, the current technical college, where he was appointed professor specializing in tribology in 1976. His dissertation on the subject of “The pedagogical relevance of the field of tribotechnology for the efficiency of the graduate engineer” was about to be completed. Not only was he a teacher in his profession, his research led to several inventions.

When he began his studies, Schubert had not yet had the opportunity to join a student corporation. He made up for this by becoming a senior man in a fraternity at the engineering school and also becoming active in the Corps Irminsul , to which he belonged until his death and on whose tape he struck two lengths at the age of 54 .

On March 19, 1978, a funeral service took place for Schubert in Gießen, the actual funeral was on March 31, 1978 in Erlangen. The batches of the Corps Irminsul with the Corps flag, a platoon of the German Armed Forces , delegations from the Soldiers' Union, the fraternity of the University of Applied Sciences provided the framework for Otto Schubert's funeral.

literature

• Hartmut Elers, Andreas Walther: 125 years of Corps Irminsul. Hamburg 2005.