Walter Mentz

Walter Mentz (born October 1, 1875 in Danzig ; † October 14, 1923 there) was a German shipbuilding engineer and university professor.

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His hometown was Danzig, where his father worked as a civil servant. After attending grammar school in Erfurt, he completed practical work. From 1894 he studied marine engineering at the Technical University in Charlottenburg , where in 1901 he passed the main examination as a qualified shipbuilding engineer . He then began his career as a naval construction officer in the Reichsmarineamt , which he gave up again in the same year in order to become effective as a department head at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. He then switched to the Stettiner Maschinenbau-Aktiengesellschaft Vulkan in Stettin as a construction engineer . In 1904, at the age of twenty-nine, he was appointed professor of marine engineering at the newly founded Technical University of Danzig (-Langfuhr) and held this teaching post until his early death at the age of 48. He was a member of the Shipbuilding Society and the Association of German Engineers, founded in 1899, and an associate of the American Society of Naval Engineers . He also wrote several special publications on the subject of marine engineering, which are an important source for this area of ​​technological history.

He was married to Else Beseler († 1952). Both found their final resting place in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

Fonts

• The construction of the American ship engines. Results of a study trip. In: Schiffbau, Schiffahrt und Hafenbau, Vol. 4 (1903), pp. 531,571,625,661 and 717
• Ship boiler. A manual for construction and calculation , Munich-Berlin 1907
• A german motor cruiser . In: International Marine Engineering 13 (1908), p. 114ff.
• Development and status of ship boiler and ship machine construction in Germany . In: Oswald Flamm: Deutscher Schiffbau, published for the first German shipbuilding exhibition in Berlin, Berlin 1908, pp. 67–78; ND Bremen 2009 (= Historical Shipping Volume 88)
• Illustrated technical dictionaries. Volume III, steam boilers, steam engines, steam turbines , Munich 1908 (co-author)
• Development and status of German shipbuilding and marine engineering and university teaching in these areas: Speech to celebrate the 50th birthday of His Majesty the Emperor and King , given on January 27, 1909 in the auditorium of the Technical University of Danzig, Danzig 1909
• German internal combustion engines for ships . In: Schiffbau XII (1911), pp. 437,481,523 and 563
• German shipbuilding industry (steam engines, turbines, oil machines) . In: Stahl und Eisen Vol. 33, Part 1 (1913), pp. 117-134
• Marine oil machines . In: Schiffbau XIV (1913), pp. 511,568,617,667 and 716
• German commercial marine oil engines, Berlin 1928 (special print from "Werft-Reederei-Hafen", no. 9/10/1923)

literature

• Articles and documents on the history of the Technical University of Danzig 1904-1945, published on the 75th anniversary of its founding, Hanover 1979, p. 149.
• Eike Lehmann: 100 Years of the Shipbuilding Society. Biographies on the history of shipbuilding, Berlin 1999, p.287 (with ill.)