Walther Bauersfeld
Walther Bauersfeld (born January 23, 1879 in Berlin , † October 28, 1959 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ; full name: Walther Wilhelm Johannes Bauersfeld ) was a German mechanical engineer and physicist . He developed the planetarium , which was presented to the public in 1923, and built the Zeiss- Opton in West Germany after 1945 .
Life
Walther Bauersfeld studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg , passed the main diploma examination in 1902 and obtained a doctorate in engineering two years later . From 1905 to 1907 he worked as a construction engineer and until 1908 as a researcher for powered aviation . Then in 1908 he became one of the four equal directors at the Carl Zeiss company in Jena.
From the age of 48 until the end of the Second World War , he taught as an associate professor for special areas in physics at the University of Jena . After 1945 he taught at the Technical University of Stuttgart as an honorary professor . In 1949 he built up the company Zeiss-Opton , Optical Works in Oberkochen near Heidenheim an der Brenz.
He began in 1919 with the development of a cantilevered dome for projection purposes, the forerunner of a planetarium. In 1922, together with the civil engineer Franz Dischinger, he developed the construction method known today as Zeiss-Dywidag shell construction for the manufacture of column-free, wide-span roof shells . The first projection planetarium for the city of Munich was completed in 1923 after initial suggestions had been given eleven years earlier. The project was initiated by Oskar von Miller , who later worked closely with Bauersfeld.
The Zeiss Planetarium Jena opened its doors to the public on July 18, 1926. A little later, the Dresden City Planetarium followed , the architectural design of which came from the Dresden City Planning Officer Paul Wolf .
Honors
- 1941: Werner-von-Siemens-Ring
- 1952: Grashof commemorative coin of the Association of German Engineers (VDI)
- 1953: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1957: James Watt Medal
Fonts
- The automatic regulation of the turbines. Dissertation, Technical University of Charlottenburg, Berlin 1905.
literature
- Reich manual of German society . Volume 1, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930. (as digitized version ISBN 3-598-30664-4 )
- Edith Hellmuth: Walther Bauersfeld. A biographical sketch. In: Knowledge in Motion. Jena 2006, ISBN 978-3-9811120-0-9 , pp. 22-42.
- Klaus Stiglat : Civil engineers and their work. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-433-01665-8 , p. 61.
- Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Berlin: Ernst & Sohn 2018, pp. 640f., 655f. and 733ff., ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Walther Bauersfeld in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Abbe: Statute of the Carl Zeiss Foundation . Ed .: Carl Zeiss Foundation. Jena 1896.
- ↑ Personnel and course directories of the University of Jena . Neuenhahn, Jena 1927.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bauersfeld, Walther |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bauersfeld, Walther Wilhelm Johannes (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mechanical engineer and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1959 |
| Place of death | Heidenheim an der Brenz |