Paul Ruden

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Paul Leo Ruden (born April 12, 1903 in Skomatzko , Lyck district , East Prussia , † February 5, 1970 ) was a German engineer , aviation expert and university lecturer .

Life

Ruden graduated from high school in Königsberg in 1924 and studied mathematics and physics in Berlin from the 1924 summer semester. There he became a member of the Berlin fraternity Teutonia . After his scientific examination for teaching at secondary schools in 1930, he became an assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Flow Research in Göttingen that same year . In 1934 he became an assistant at the Institute for Aeromechanics and Flight Technology at the Technical University of Hanover .

In 1937 Ruden became a Dr.-Ing. PhD . His dissertation was entitled Investigations on axial fans . In 1939 he qualified as a Dr.-Ing. habil. with his work on the theory of the airfoil profile in the vicinity of sudden changes in total pressure .

A year later (1940) Ruden became a lecturer for flight mechanics at the TH Hannover. At the end of 1941 he switched to the German Research Institute for Glider Flight in Ainring ( Upper Bavaria ) as head of the Institute for Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics . On September 1, 1943, Ruden became an associate professor in the Reich Service at the research institutes of German aviation.

After the Second World War , Ruden first lived in Stuttgart , but went to the Arsenal de l'Aéronautique in Paris-Chatillon as an engineer conseil in 1946/47 . In 1954 he became an employee (director of the research department) of Prof. Willy Messerschmitt in Munich . Around 1958/59 Ruden moved to Heinkel GmbH in Munich as director of the research department and was later head of the future program of the European company Eldo in Paris for two years . He then worked for the German Commission for Space Research and later a consultant for overall planning in a federally owned aerospace company in Munich. After a serious illness, he retired in the spring of 1969.

literature

  • Willibald Reichertz: East Germans as lecturers at the Technical University of Hanover (1831–1956) . In: East German family studies . tape 55 , 2007, p. 109-120 .
  • Horst Gerken (Ed.): Festschrift for the 175th anniversary of the University of Hanover / Catalogus Professorum 1831-2006 . 4th edition. tape 2 . Georg Olms Verlag, Hannover 2006, ISBN 978-3-487-13115-3 , p. 424 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Investigations into axial fans . In: Luftfahrtforschung , Volume 14, Lfg. 7 + 9, Munich 1937.
  2. ^ Theory of the wing profile in the vicinity of sudden changes in total pressure . In: Yearbook of German Aviation Research . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich (1939).
personal data
SURNAME Ruden, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruden, Paul Leo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, aviation expert and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Skomatzko , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1970