Adolf Sengel

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Adolf Sengel (born June 10, 1869 in Forbach ; † September 11, 1944 in Darmstadt ) was a German electrical engineer . He was a professor of electrical engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

Life

Sengel was born in 1869 as the son of the medical councilor Karl Sengel and his wife Emilie born. Wagner was born in Forbach, Lorraine . After finishing school he studied electrical engineering with Erasmus Kittler at the TH Darmstadt from 1886 and successfully completed his studies in March 1891. During his studies he became a member of the Cheruskia Darmstadt Landsmannschaft in 1888/89 . After completing his studies, he went to AEG as a developer and worked at the mechanical engineering workshop (formerly Ducommun) in Mulhouse in Alsace .

From April 1, 1896 he became a designer at the Electrotechnical Institute of the TH Darmstadt and from April 1897 had a teaching position for electrotechnical constructions. In May 1898 he received an extraordinary professorship with a teaching position for electrical engineering. Alongside Erasmus Kittler and Karl Wirtz, Sengel was the third professor of electrical engineering at the TH Darmstadt. Sengels' area of ​​responsibility was later expanded to include the planning of electrical light and power systems. In addition, he was responsible for managing the electrical components of the university power plant. The power plant, newly built by Georg Wickop on Magdalenenstrasse in 1904 , supplied the entire university with heat and electricity.

From 1909 Sengel also represented the field of electric railways , which became an examination subject from 1911. In 1920 Sengel became a consultant for electrical engineering in the Hessian Ministry of Finance . In April 1922 he was appointed senior building officer and was a provisional member of the ministerial building department and lecturer in the ministry of finance. Adolf Sengel was Dean of the Electrical Engineering Department from 1925 to 1928 .

Sengel was married to Elisabeth Best from 1903. A daughter Lieselotte was born from the marriage. The family lived in the Paulusviertel (Darmstadt) .

Sengel was after the seizure of power forced the Nazis in 1933 from office. The 64-year-old had been asked to make way for a younger successor as a “national act”. In October 1933, he asked for retirement, which took place on April 1, 1934. Adolf Sengel died on the night of September 11th to 12th 1944 in the heaviest air raid on Darmstadt in World War II .

Honors

literature

  • Andreas Göller: Practice-Theory-Innovation. On the history of electrical engineering at the TH Darmstadt 1882-1945. In: Archive for Hessian History, 65, 2007, pp. 165–198.
  • The Grand Ducal Technical University of Darmstadt 1896-1908. Festschrift to celebrate the opening of the extension on July 23, 1908. Darmstadt 1908, pp. 93–95.
  • Melanie Hanel: The Technical University of Darmstadt in the “Third Reich”. Dissertation, Darmstadt 2013.
  • Christa Wolf, Marianne Viefhaus: Directory of professors at TH Darmstadt. Darmstadt 1977, p. 193.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 84.
personal data
SURNAME Sengel, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Forbach (Moselle)
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1944
Place of death Darmstadt