Walter Schallreuter

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Walter Schallreuter (born March 24, 1895 in Berlin , † April 16, 1975 in Greifswald ) was a German physicist and university professor. His area of ​​research was gas discharge physics.

Life

Schallreuter studied chemistry and physics in Berlin, a. a. with Walther Nernst and Max Planck . At Nernst he received his doctorate in 1923 with the thesis Generation of electrical glow light oscillations in tubes with noble gas fillings , which was published as a book in a Vieweg series under the title About oscillation phenomena in discharge tubes . From 1929 to 1945, Schallreuter worked as a physicist in the lighting and tube industry. During the ten-year stay in London, where Schallreuter also ran a light bulb factory (at least recently), two editions of his book on neon tubes were published, which was one of the four well-known books on this subject at the time. In 1939 he returned with his family to Germany, where he settled in Greifswald in 1946 after staying in Saarbrücken, Coburg, Berlin, Kalisch (Warthegau) and Ilmenau. In 1946 he began to work as a research assistant at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald , completed his habilitation and became a lecturer on November 1, 1946. In the second half of December 1946, within the framework of reparation claims, a Russian commission searched for scientists from the University of Greifswald who could be asked to relocate research to the USSR. Among them were the physicists Rudolf Seeliger and Walter Schallreuter and the chemist Gerhart Jander . According to the book by Ewert / Ewert, there is no evidence from the documents in the university archive of Schallreuter that there was an activity for the Soviet side.

At the end of 1947, Schallreuter became an extraordinary Professor, and was Ordentl from 1955 to 1961. Professor and Director of the Physics Institute (as successor to Rudolf Seeliger ). From 1955 to 1960 he was also the dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (as successor to Willi Rinow ).

Schallreuter died shortly after his 80th birthday in Greifswald, his grave is in the cemetery in the Eldena district there. Walter Schallreuter is the father of the geologist and especially bed load researcher Roger Schallreuter (1937–2013).

Work from the textbook editor and author

After the Second World War, Schallreuter continued Ernst Grimsehl's physics textbook for the BG Teubner Verlag in Leipzig ; its predecessor was Rudolf Tomaschek . In the years 1951 to 1975, Schallreuter published a total of 23 individual book editions, mostly without co-authors. Schallreuter added a chapter on vector computation to the first volume Mechanics, Thermal Science, Acoustics , from the second volume Electromagnetic Field, Optics he split optics as an independent third volume, in which he u. a. clarified the hypothesis of an ether as refuted. In contrast to the first three volumes, which were more devoted to classical physics, the fourth volume, which was first published in 1959, had structure of matter up to ten co-authors who represented the sub-areas of physics that were no longer classical.

Also from 1951 on, Schallreuter wrote his own textbook Introduction to Physics , initially divided into three volumes, later condensed into two: Volume 1: Mechanics and Thermal Science (up to 7th edition - 1970) Volume 2: Electricity, Optics and atomic physics (up to 3rd, combined and extended ed. - 1968)

Fonts

  • as editor: Grimsehl - Textbook of Physics (4 vols.), BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig, 1951–1975
  • Introduction to Physics (3, later 2 volumes), Wilhelm-Knapp-Verlag Halle (Saale) (until 1958) and later Fachbuchverlag Leipzig (from 1963), 1951–1970
  • The history of the physical institute at the University of Greifswald. In: Univ. Greifswald (Hrsg.): Festschrift for the 500th anniversary of the University of Greifswald. Volume 2. Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald 1956, p. 456-462 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. W. Schallreuter: About vibration phenomena in discharge tubes . Fr. Vieweg & Sohn Akt.-Ges., Braunschweig 1923, ISBN 978-3-322-98054-0 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ a b Wolfgang Wilhelmus u. a .: University of Greifswald: 525 years . German Verl. Der Wiss., Berlin 1982, ISBN 978-3-86006-038-4 , p. 124 .
  3. ^ A b Günter Ewert, Ralf Ewert: Gerhardt Katsch: Founder of the first German diabetic home and diabetic care . Pro BUSINESS, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86805-665-5 , p. 24 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ^ Günter Ewert, Ralf Ewert: Gerhardt Katsch - Personal impressions of life in post-war Germany . In: Internal medicine at Greifswald University . 8 (3rd year), 2015, ISBN 978-3-86460-304-4 , pp. 84 (photo p. 85) ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ^ Walter Schallreuter: Neon Tube Practice . 2nd Edition. Blandford Press Limited, London 1939 (255 pages).
  6. ↑ Christoph Ribbat: Flickering Modernity. The story of neon light . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-515-09890-8 , pp. 42 (English edition) .
  7. ^ M. Reich, E. Herrich and B. Brügmann: Roger Schallreuter for his 65th birthday . In: Archives for Geschiebekunde . tape 3 , no. 8--12 , 2004, ISSN  0936-2967 , p. 461–500 ( pdf [accessed August 27, 2018]).
  8. ^ Jürgen Weiss, Werner Stolz: ERNST GRIMSEHL (1861-1914): Successful author with BG Teubner . Edition at Gutenbergplatz, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-937219-32-5 , p. 23,25,38 (photo Schallreuter) ( limited preview in Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Schallreuter, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1975
Place of death Greifswald