Walter Wolman

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Walter Wolman (born January 20, 1901 in Elberfeld , † November 3, 2003 in Buchenbach near Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German communications engineer .

Life

Family and education

Walter Wolman was the son of the chemist Dr. Ludwig Wolman and took the Abitur in 1919 at the Reform Realprogymnasium with Realschule in Opladen . After a one-year internship in the mechanical engineering department of the cable works in Felten and Cologne-Mülheim, Wolman began studying electrical engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1921 , and obtained his diploma in 1925 . In 1927, at the RWTH Aachen University , the promotion of Dr.-Ing. Walter Wolman married Lisbet nee Hoffmann in 1929. This connection had four children named Marei, Georg, Christof and Friedgart. Wolman was a member of the Christian Community .

Professional career

Wolman took up a research assistant position at the Electrotechnical Institute of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen in 1925. After completing his doctorate, Walter Wolman worked as a development engineer for electroacoustics , and since 1931 as group leader of several communications laboratories at Siemens & Halske AG in Berlin . In 1938 he followed a call to the extraordinary professorship for telecommunications systems and technical acoustics at the Technical University of Dresden . In this function he developed a method for measuring the speed of missiles according to the Doppler principle . In addition, he was involved in research projects on telemetry and remote control for the Peenemünde Army Research Center . In 1940 he was given the management of the "Peenemünde Project" at the Technical University of Dresden. After the Second World War , Wolman taught at the Technical University of Stuttgart from the winter semester of 1946/47 , where he was appointed full professor for telecommunications systems and director of the newly created institute for telecommunications systems in 1948. The 1966 emeritus continued his teaching until 1977.

Publications

  • About a method of iron testing with the magnetic voltmeter: measurements on iron monocrystals, dissertation , TH Aachen, 1927, Springer, Berlin, 1928.
  • Frequency response of the eddy current influence on transfer plates, 1929.
  • together with Richard Feldtkeller : Investigations into almost linear networks. In: Telegraphie- und Fernsprech- Technik 20, Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1931.

literature

  • Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 2, 10th edition, Walter de Gruyter & Co, Berlin 1966, p. 2749.
  • Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar, Volume 3, 13th Edition, De Gruyter: Berlin, New York 1980, ISBN 3-11-007434-6 , p. 4357.
  • Walter Habel (greeting): Who is who? The German Who's Who, XXXIII. Edition (formerly Degeners Wer ist's?), Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck, 1994, ISBN 3-7950-2015-8 , p. 1489.
  • Wolman, Walter. In: 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 , p. 1066.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oswald Sander: Life pictures of deceased teachers, employees and board members, Volume II. Free Waldorf School am Kräherwald, Rudolf-Steiner-Weg 10, 70192 Stuttgart, 2013, accessed on April 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wolman, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communications engineer
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 2003
Place of death Buchenbach near Freiburg im Breisgau