Walter Seiz
Walter Gustav Seiz (born September 24, 1885 in Karlsruhe , † October 27, 1966 in Munich ) was a German electrical engineer .
Life
During his studies he became a member of the Fidelitas Karlsruhe Landsmannschaft in 1903/04 . Seitz took over at Brown, Boveri & Cie in 1912 . in Baden the calculation of three-phase commutator machines , especially the Scherbius machines. There he also wrote a dissertation on the theory of the asynchronous frequency converter .
In 1929 he was appointed to the chair for electrical machines at the Technical University of Danzig , where he stayed until the end of the war. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .
After the Second World War he was appointed to the chair for electrical machines at the Technical University of Munich in 1946 . He was particularly interested in three-phase AC rear machines.
Works
- The asynchronous single armature converter (frequency converter) ; Berlin, Springer, 1914
- Introduction to electrical engineering and electromotive drives ; Berlin, Elsner, 1944
- Guide to electrical engineering
- The commutator cascade for constant power ; In Archiv für Elektrotechnik, Volume 20, Number 3 / May 1928
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Seiz in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth register StA Karlsruhe, No. 1174/1885
- ↑ Death register StA Munich III, No. 2589/1966
- ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 125.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seiz, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seiz, Walter Gustav (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German electrical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1966 |
| Place of death | Munich |