Theodor Buchhold

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Theodor Buchhold (born July 10, 1900 in Unterliederbach ; † January 1, 1984 in Wiesbaden ) was a German-American electrical and rocket technician .

Life

Theodor Buchhold was born in 1900 as the son of the bookseller Hermann Buchhold in Unterliederbach, a district of Frankfurt am Main since 1928 .

After graduating from high school, he studied electrical engineering at the TH Darmstadt from 1919 and completed his studies on May 16, 1923 with the main diploma examination. Then he went to Brown, Boveri & Cie. to Mannheim. On July 24, 1925, he was awarded a Dr.-Ing. Degree at the TH Darmstadt with a thesis on "Theoretical and experimental investigations on overhead contact lines" . PhD. Buchhold was an expert on electric trains and had made a name for himself in his research in the field of so-called shaking vibrations in electric trains. He got up at Brown, Boveri & Cie. to the deputy director of the railway department.

As the successor to Adolf Sengel , who was forced out of office in 1933, Buchhold took over the professorship of Electrical Engineering II at the TH Darmstadt on October 1, 1934. Associated with this professorship was the supervision of the electrical parts of the power plant that supplied the university with heat and electricity.

Buchhold had been a member of the NSDAP since May 31, 1933 .

Theodor Buchhold had been entrusted with military tasks since 1939. He dealt in particular with questions of rocket navigation and control. Buchhold was one of a larger group of Darmstadt professors (e.g. Viktor Blaess , Hans Busch , Ernst Hueter , Kurt Klöppel , Hans Rau , August Thum , Richard Vieweg , Carl Wagner , Alwin Walther ) who carried out research assignments for the Peenemünde Army Research Institute . Here Buchhold was assigned to the design department under the direction of Walter HJ Riedel . Buchhold was dean of the electrical engineering department from 1941 to 1944.

Theodor Buchhold was dismissed from civil service at the end of October 1945 for “political reasons”. He was one of nine professors and academic staff in whom the American War Department expressed an interest in August 1945. Buchhold accepted this invitation in June 1946 and came to the USA with Operation Overcast . He continued his professional life in the USA and made a career in American rocket and space research. From January 1947 he worked in Fort Bliss (Texas). Here he was part of the "Braun Rocket Team". He later moved to General Electric in industry.

After his active career he returned to Germany. His first marriage was to Ilse Center and his second marriage to Hildegard Margarethe Karoline Trietsch.

Honors

Works

  • Theoretical and experimental investigations on overhead contact lines. Diss., Heidelberg 1925
  • The electrical equipment of the direct current railways including the contact lines. Berlin 1931.
  • Electric power plants and networks. Berlin 1938.

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.
  • Melanie Hanel: The Technical University of Darmstadt in the “Third Reich”. Diss., Darmstadt 2013.
  • One hundred years of Darmstadt University of Technology. The Technical University of Darmstadt 1836–1936. Darmstadt 1936, pp. 151–154.
  • Christa Wolf, Marianne Viefhaus: Directory of professors at TH Darmstadt. Darmstadt 1977, p. 33.

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personal data
SURNAME Buchhold, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American electrical and rocket technician
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Unterliederbach
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1984
Place of death Wiesbaden