Walter Frenzel

Walter Eduard Michael Frenzel (born September 29, 1884 in Kleinzschachwitz , † October 14, 1970 in Berlin ) was a German textile technician and university professor .

The family grave of Walter Frenzel and his wife Ilse in the Wilmersdorf cemetery in Berlin.

Life

Walter Frenzel studied at the Technical University of Dresden at the Mechanical-Technological Institute, from whose director Ernst Müller he was promoted. Frenzel went to the TH Hannover as an assistant and received his doctorate in 1912 with a thesis on the gas permeability of balloon fabrics. Walter Frenzel worked in the Netherlands and Belgium until the 1930s. He set up the fiber research institute at TH Delft and took over the Chemnitz textile school back in Germany . Finding himself after the seizure of power of the Nazis refused, the NSDAP enter, he was dismissed from his post.

Walter Frenzel Building of the TU Dresden

After the end of the Second World War , Walter Frenzel was appointed professor for textile technology and director of the Institute for Textile and Paper Technology at the TH Dresden. In addition to his work as a university lecturer, Frenzel also founded the Institute for Technology of Fibers of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in Pirna - Copitz in 1947 , which was relocated to Dresden in 1954. In 1957 , at the age of 72, Frenzels retired , the professorship was given to Wolfgang Bobeth .

Walter Frenzel was the founder and long-time editor of the magazine fiber research and textile technology . In addition to 130 publications, his oeuvre also includes 30 patents. Walter Frenzel was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin , the Saxon Academy of Sciences and national prize winner of the GDR . The textile machine hall of the Mechanical Engineering Faculty of the TU Dresden has been called Walter-Frenzel-Bau since 1996.

Fonts

• Investigations on yarn processing machines (1954)

literature

• Technical University of Dresden: buildings and names . Technical University of Dresden, Dresden 1997, p. 20f.
• Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , pp. 234–235 ( limited preview in Google book search).