Ulrich W. Hütter

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Ulrich W. Hütter (born December 18, 1910 in Pilsen ; † August 12, 1990 in Kirchheim unter Teck ) was an Austrian - German engineer and university professor. Hütter is considered an outstanding pioneer in wind energy generation .

Life

After completing school at the Humanistic Gymnasium in Salzburg , Hütter studied mechanical engineering and shipbuilding at the Vienna University of Technology from 1930 to 1936 . In 1932 he began to learn gliding with his brother Wolfgang Hütter and subsequently developed a number of models with him . From 1936 on he studied aeronautical engineering at the TH Stuttgart and graduated there in 1938 with a diploma. Ulrich Hütter joined the NSDAP in Vienna on July 1, 1932. The doctorate took place in 1942 at Feifel at the Technical University of Vienna with a "contribution to the creation of design principles for wind power plants", the so-called Hütter's wind rotor theory.

Hütter lived from 1939 to 1943 in Weimar, where he worked among others as head of the aerodynamic department of the Weimar School of Engineering and designer of the Thuringian Gauleiter Fritz Sauckel and the SS officer, IG Farben chemist and member of the Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft Walter Schieber founded company Ventimotor GmbH. Among other things, Ventimotor was promoted as a supplier for decentralized wind turbines within the framework of the General Plan East after a possible final victory . In 1943 the activities of Ventimotor were discontinued, Hütter was called up to the Research Institute of the Zeppelin Works (FGZ) in Ruit near Stuttgart, where he was head of the design department and a. for manned missiles, underwater towing systems and the night fighter Hütter Hü 211 .

In 1944, Hütter was given a teaching position for fluid mechanics and flight mechanics at the TH Stuttgart. After the end of the war and a brief internment , Hütter worked from 1946 to 1959 as a construction manager at Allgaier Werke in Uhingen (Württemberg). It was not until 1952/53 that the teaching assignment at the Technical University of Stuttgart was renewed , and in 1957 the habilitation on the subject of the catching start procedure with an umbrella-damped towing push . Hütter's StGW-34 wind power plant, developed in 1957, is considered a milestone in the history of wind energy use and the prototype of all modern "free-moving turbines ". In 1959, Hütter became an associate professor and head of the newly founded Department of Applied Flight Physics in Stuttgart (today: Institute for Construction Methods and Structural Technology, in the meantime: Institute for Construction Research of the DLR ) of the German Research Institute for Helicopter and Vertical Flight Technology ( DFH ) (today: DLR ) and in 1965 professor at the Institute for Aircraft Construction at the TU Stuttgart . In 1969 the previous department of the DFVLR (in 1968 the DFH , which had already been integrated into the DFL , was again merged to form the DFVLR) was appointed the institute with Hütter as head.

Hütter retired in 1980.

In 1986 the "Ulrich Hütter wind energy test field" in Schnittlingen ( Baden-Württemberg ) was named after him.

Ulrich Hütter's contributions to energy generation were recognized in 2016 by being depicted on a mural in Erfurt .

Awards

  • 1974 Enoch Thulin Medal from the Aeronautical Society of Sweden for services to glider construction.
  • 1976 Hugo Junkers Memorial Lecture, Paris
  • 1977 Award ceremony: "Aachen and Munich Prize for Technology and Applied Natural Sciences".

Designed aircraft

List of aircraft by Hütter, often developed together with his brother Wolfgang Hütter:

Little Sailor Hütter 17

literature

  • Ulrich W. Hütter: Contribution to the creation of design principles for wind power plants . Weimar 1942. (Dissertation at the TH Vienna ).
  • Ulrich W. Hütter: Flying start procedure with towing shock dampened by an umbrella . Stuttgart 1956. (Habilitation at the TH Stuttgart ).
  • Heiner Dörner : Three Worlds - One Life, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hütter, university professor - designer - artist. 2nd Edition. H. Dörner, Heilbronn 2002, ISBN 3-00-000067-4 .
  • Matthias Heymann : The history of wind energy use 1890–1990. Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-593-35278-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. Haka: wings made of "black gold". On the history of fiber composites. In: NTM. Journal for the history of science, technology and medicine. 19, 1, 2011, p. 100.
  2. ↑ Aleida Assmann, Frank Hiddemann, Eckhard Schwarzenberger: Company Topf & Sons - Manufacturers of Ovens for Auschwitz: A Factory Site as a Place of Remembrance? Campus Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-593-37035-2 , p. 41 under "Wind power for path farmers" for details on wind energy in Weimar
  3. ^ H. Dörner: Three worlds - one life, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hütter, university professor - designer - artist . Heilbronn 1995, ISBN 3-00-000067-4 .
  4. ↑ Walther Schieber: Energy source wind power. Berlin no year (1941)
  5. ^ M. Heymann: History of the use of wind energy: 1890-1990. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 1995 (also Diss. German Museum Munich)
  6. ↑ M. Kosta: A story about energy . Erfurt (2016)
personal data
SURNAME Hütter, Ulrich W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Pilsen
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1990
Place of death Kirchheim / Teck