Siegfried Valentiner

Richard Wilhelm Siegfried Valentiner (born April 30, 1876 in Mannheim ; † July 4, 1971 in Vlotho ) was a German physicist and university professor .

Life

Siegfried Valentiner was a son of the astronomer Karl Wilhelm Valentiner and his wife Anna Isis Elisabeth, born. Lepsius (1848–1919), daughter of the Egyptologist Carl Richard Lepsius . In 1894 he passed his Abitur at the Nikolaischule in Leipzig . He then devoted himself to studying physics at the Universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg , which he achieved in Heidelberg in 1900 with the academic degree of Dr. phil. nat. completed.

After completing his military service , in 1901 he took on the position of scientific assistant at the University of Munich . In 1903 he moved to the University of Halle in the same position , where he qualified as a professor in physics in 1904. In 1905 he accepted an assistant position at the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in Berlin-Charlottenburg . In 1909 he was given a teaching position for physics and photography at the TH Hannover . In 1910 he accepted the appointment to the professorship for physics at the Bergakademie Clausthal , where he held the rectorate from 1921 to 1923, 1923 to 1925 and 1933 to 1935 , and in 1947 he retired . He joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 . Siegfried Valentiner was awarded honorary citizenship of the Clausthal Mining Academy in 1950 and the Great Federal Cross of Merit in 1955 .

In November 1933, Valentiner signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

The Protestant Siegfried Valentiner married Luise Schäfer in 1906, with whom he had four children Anneliese, Elfriede, Wilhelm Dietrich and Siegfried. He died in Vlotho in 1971 at the age of 95. Siegfried Valentiner was the older brother of the art historian Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner .

Publications (selection)

• Physical problems in mining processing, Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1929
• Physical basics of measurement technology in heat management, Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1940
• Vector analysis, 7th, significantly changed edition, de Gruyter, Berlin, 1950
• The specific heat of iron and nickel, Verlag Stahleisen, Düsseldorf, 1958

literature

• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar. Volume 2, 10th edition, Berlin 1966, pp. 2550, 2551.
• August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? Das deutsche Who's Who, Volume 16 ,, Arani, Berlin, 1970 ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , pp. 1357, 1358.
• Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 10, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , p. 179.

Web links

• Literature by and about Siegfried Valentiner in the catalog of the German National Library