Walter Reichardt

Walter Reichardt (born January 7, 1903 in Dresden ; † July 2, 1985 there ) was a German engineer specializing in acoustics and professor at the Technical University of Dresden .

Life

Walter Reichardt studied technical science at the TH Dresden from 1922 to 1928 and was then a senior engineer in various broadcasting companies until 1945. He received his doctorate in 1930 from the TH Dresden with a thesis on "Degenerations of sinusoidal vibrations". After 1945 he worked as a developer, expert and consulting engineer and from 1948, on the initiative of Heinrich Barkhausen, accepted a teaching position at the TH Dresden, where he was appointed professor for building and electroacoustics in 1950. In the years that followed, the Institute for Electrical and Building Acoustics was established under his leadership, in which he held the Chair of Electrical and Building Acoustics as a full professor from 1958 until his retirement in 1968. Reichardt died in Dresden in 1985 and was buried in the Trinitatisfriedhof .

Fonts

• Walter Reichardt: Fundamentals of technical acoustics. Academic publishing company Geest and Portig, Leipzig, 1968
• Walter Reichardt: Good acoustics, but how? Conversations by an expert in room acoustics with concert and theater visitors, conductors, record friends, architects and sound engineers. Verlag Technik, Berlin, 1979
• Walter Reichardt: Physical basics of electroacoustics , Mathematical and Natural Science Library, Teubner Leipzig 1961, 150 pp.
• Walter Reichardt: Equations in Science and Technology. Sizes u. Units applied correctly. 1st edition. Fachbuchverlag, Leipzig 1983, 179 pp.

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Reichardt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Festschrift for the honorary colloquium REICHARDT - KRAAK - WÖHLE, July 4, 2003, Dresden University of Technology (PDF file; 16.5 MB)