Rudolf Richter (electrical engineer)

Rudolf Ernst Ferdinand Richter (born June 15, 1877 in Fürstenwalde / Spree ; † November 6, 1957 ) was a German electrical engineer and university professor .

Life

Richter studied at the Technical University and the University of Berlin. After graduating, he worked as an engineer for Siemens & Halske AG in Vienna from 1900 and for Siemens-Schuckertwerke AG in Berlin from 1902. From 1908 he was technical director of the railway department of Maffei-Schwartzkopfwerke AG in Berlin.

In 1912 he accepted an appointment as professor of electrical engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and was also director of the university's electrotechnical institute. In 1947 he retired.

Inventions

He is the inventor of an iron testing device for entire metal sheets (1902), an AC series motor with phase-shifted reversing field (1904), a three-phase motor for low starting currents (1924) and other electrical machines. He is also the author of a five-volume standard work on the entire electrical engineering industry, including transformers.

Honors

• 1952: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Darmstadt
• Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Karlsruhe
• Honorary member of the Association of German Electrical Engineers

literature

• Johann C. Poggendorff: JC Poggendorff's biographical-literary concise dictionary for mathematics, astronomy, physics with geophysics, chemistry, crystallography and related fields of knowledge - Berlin: Chemie, 1936-1939
• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? : the German Who's Who - 12th edition of Degeners Wer ist's ?. - Berlin: Arani, 1955

Web links

• Brief biographical outline on www.etit.kit.edu (PDF file; 291 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Darmstadt