Richard Fehrenbach

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Richard Fehrenbach (born August 7, 1920 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † September 26, 1976 there ) was a Freiburg mechanical engineer who, as a vocational school teacher, constructed the first Freiburg planetarium and built it together with students and teachers.

education and profession

Richard Fehrenbach attended the secondary school in Freiburg im Breisgau . He then studied mechanical engineering at the engineering school in Friedberg (Hesse) from 1938 to 1941 .

He worked as a construction engineer at the Junkers engine and aircraft plant . During the period of National Socialism and World War II , he became head of the Luftwaffe shipyard and was therefore taken prisoner by the Americans at the end of the war.

After his release from captivity, he applied for school service at the vocational schools in Freiburg in 1948 . He taught there for 28 years until his death in 1976.

Initiator and designer of the planetarium

During the construction planning of the Gewerbeschule II on Freiburg's Friedrichstrasse, Richard Fehrenbach suggested building a dome for a projection planetarium on the school building . The school management and the school authorities agreed to his proposal to have the planetarium built by students and teachers in the school workshops according to Fehrenbach's plans.

Fehrenbach and his team realized Baden-Württemberg's first planetarium projector from 1959 in a 12-year construction period from numerous gear wheels, lamps, lenses, electric motors and slip rings. In addition to his professional activity, Fehrenbach spent 20,000 working hours on calculations, tests and construction.

After almost 30 years of operation and around 10,000 demonstrations, Richard Fehrenbach's projector is now on display in the new Freiburg Planetarium , which was set up in 2002 in the Freiburg train station building.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the Freiburg industrial schools
  2. ↑ a b History of the Freiburg Planetarium ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Planetarium-Freiburg.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.planetarium-freiburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Fehrenbach, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer, initiator of the Freiburg Planetarium
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1976
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau