Rudolf Drawe

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As rector, Rudolf Drawe hits the first three hammer blows at the ceremonial laying of the foundation stone of the extension to the Technical University in Berlin, July 1929.

Rudolf Drawe (born January 14, 1877 in Saarbrücken , † October 25, 1967 in Berlin ) was a German professor of fuel technology and rector of the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg .

Life

Rudolf Drawe was born as the son of Rudolf Drawe and Sophie. Reinhold was born in Saarbrücken. After attending grammar school there, he studied mechanical engineering at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg, where he took the main examination in the academic year 1901/1902. From 1902 to 1908 he worked as an engineer and later chief engineer at Ehrhardt & Sehmer in Saarbrücken, where he and Theodor Ehrhardt developed large gas machines, especially for the steel industry. After a year as technical director and member of the board of the A. Thyssen & Co. machine factory in Mülheim an der Ruhr, he became technical director and member of the board of Ehrhardt & Sehmer in 1909 .

In 1915 he was appointed professor for fuel technology at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg from his industrial practice. He took up the teaching post in 1919 and held it continuously until 1952. His main areas of work were internal combustion engines, steam boilers and fuel processing. Drawe was instrumental in the development of the gasification of lignite under pressure with oxygen-water vapor mixtures, the process known today as the Sasol-Lurgi dry bottom process . Under his direction the scientific support and processing of the process patented by Lurgi in 1927 took place. Rudolf Drawe is one of the fathers of modern fuel gasification. He was dean and from 1929 to 1930 rector of the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg.

In addition to his scientific activity, Rudolf Drawe was a member of the supervisory board of the German shipbuilding and mechanical engineering company in Bremen, the mechanical engineering AG vorm. Ehrhardt & Sehmer in Saarbrücken and the Baroper Walzwerk AG in Dortmund-Barop.

In recognition of his services, Drawe was made an honorary senator of the Technical University of Berlin. In 1949 he became an honorary member of the German Association for Gas and Water. V. (DVGW). In 1938 he received the Estonian Order of the White Star . In 1953 he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . The Technical University of Berlin named the Institute for Fuel Technology “Rudolf Drawe Institute for Fuel Technology” in his honor.

Rudolf Drawe was a member of the Weinheimer Corps Pomerania-Silesia, Berolina and Saxonia-Berlin.

Fonts

  • Construction details of double-acting four-stroke gas engines , in: Stahl & Eisen , 1910, no. 6/7
  • Economy and Design of modern Reversing Rolling-Mill Steam Engines , in: Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute , 1910, No. 1 (together with Eduard G. Sehmer)
  • New ways of smoldering and gasification, report on oxygen gasification in Tegel , in: Braunkohle , 1927, p. 573
  • Strong gas through fuel gasification with oxygen , in: Das Gas- und Wasserfach , 76th year, 1933, issue 28, pp. 541/545
  • Refined domestic fuels. , Association of Old Berlin Mining Academics, 1935
  • Ways to increased fuel refinement , in: Das Gas- und Wasserfach , 80th year, 1937, p. 906/10
  • Successes of pressurized gasification with oxygen , in: Archives for heat management and steam boiler systems , 19th year, 1938, issue 8, p. 201/03
  • Basic condition of gasification , in: Das Gas- und Wasserfach , 85th year, 1942, pp. 184/191, 252 (together with Sergei Traustel )
  • Economic utilization of brown coal through refinement , 1949, in: Bergbau und Energiewirtschaft .
  • The importance of brown coal for modern fuel refinement , 1951, in: Brown coal, heat and energy .

literature

  • Carl Weigandt: History of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin to Aachen 1867-1967. Aachen 1968.
  • Joachim Grub: Contributions to the history of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin to Aachen, 1967–1992. Aachen 1993.
  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 344.
  • Drawe, Rudolf. In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , Sp. 486.
  • Drawe, Rudolf . In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1961 . 9th Edition, Volume A-N, p. 344
  • Who is who? , 1935, p. 318
  • Who is who? , 1948, pp. 51-52

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Royal Technical University of Berlin - Program for the academic year 1902–1903 , p. 145 (PDF; 14 MB)
  2. ↑ Ehrhardt & Sehmer, Maschinenfabrik AG, Saarbrücken on home.arcor.de
  3. ↑ Christopher Higmann, Maarten van der Burgt: Gasification . Oxford 2008, p. 94, ISBN 978-0-7506-8528-3 .
  4. ↑ Honorary Members DVGW ( Memento from May 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Drawe, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fuel technician, professor and rector of the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1967
Place of death Berlin