Teodor Schlomka

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Teodor Johannes Hermann Schlomka , also Theodor (born March 25, 1901 in Krockow , Putzig district , West Prussia ; † 1985 ) was a German physicist and university professor .

Life

From 1923 to 1928, Schlomka was an assistant at the Mathematical Seminar of the University of Halle and was awarded a Dr. rer. nat doctorate . His dissertation of February 11, 1925 was entitled Investigations into the electrical self-charging of aircraft engines (Halle / Saale 1925).

From 1931 to 1935 Schlomka was a private lecturer in geophysics at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald . There he completed his habilitation in 1933. His habilitation thesis was on gravitation and geomagnetism .

Afterwards Schlomka was from 1935 professor for theoretical physics at the Technical University of Hanover . What was unusual about this appointment was that a geophysicist was placed on a chair for theoretical physics. This personnel decision was therefore also very controversial in the university. It only becomes understandable if you see it against the background of the fight against scientific physics under National Socialism. With Schlomka's appointment, which was justified explicitly for political reasons, the Nazification of the three physics chairs at the university was completed. As early as 1925/26 he had earned his first merits in a dispute with Carl Ramsauer in the fight against scientific physics and, as an active member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2147328), seemed suitable to steer physics at the Hanover University in the "correct" National Socialist direction. In 1939 he received a substitute professorship at the University of Prague in German-occupied Prague . In 1940 he became director of the Geophysical Institute there.

After the Second World War , he lived again in Hanover from 1945 to 1951 and financed his livelihood, among other things, by teaching mathematics and physics at special courses for those participating in the war. In 1955 he was appointed professor with a chair for physics at the University of Architecture and Construction in Weimar . In 1956 he became a member of the Physical Society of the GDR. In 1966 he retired .

literature

  • Willibald Reichertz: East Germans as lecturers at the Technical University of Hanover (1831–1956) . In: East German family studies . XVIII (55th year), No. 3 . Degener & Co, Insingen 2007, p. 109-120 .
  • Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 .
  • Michael Jung: Our hearts beat with enthusiasm towards the Führer. The Technical University of Hanover and its professors under National Socialism . Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6451-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In: Gerlands contributions to geophysics , Volume 38, Academic Publishing Company, Leipzig 1933
  2. ↑ Michael Jung: Our hearts beat enthusiastically to the Führer. The Technical University of Hanover and its professors under National Socialism . Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2013, pp. 155–160, 234.
personal data
SURNAME Schlomka, Teodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlomka, Theodor; Schlomka, Teodor Johannes Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Krockow , Putzig district , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH 1985