Werner Albring

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Werner Anton Oskar Wilhelm Albring (born September 26, 1914 in Schwelm , Westphalia , † December 21, 2007 in Dresden ) was a German engineer and university professor in the field of fluid mechanics .

Life

From 1934 to 1939 he studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Hannover , where he in 1941 with the work force measurements on vibrating wings doctorate was. After two years of assistance, he worked from 1941 to 1945 as deputy director at the Institute for Aeromechanics and Flight Technology there .

After the end of the Second World War , Albring started working for the central works in Bleicherode, Thuringia, near Nordhausen in the southern Harz region , and in 1946 was appointed head of the aerodynamics department . Here the Soviet occupying power continued the traditional production of the German V2 rockets under the technical direction of the aircraft manufacturer and later chief designer Sergei Pavlovich Koroljow, who later became famous as the father of Soviet space travel . The V2 rockets produced were brought to the Soviet Union for experimental purposes.

On October 22, 1946, Albring was forced to go to the Soviet Union together with his family and other specialists such as Helmut Gröttrup , Kurt Magnus , Heinrich Wilhelmi and others as part of the Ossawakim campaign . Albring worked for almost five years as an aerodynamicist in the Valdai Heights on the Gorodomlja island in Lake Seliger (today the Solnetschny settlement ). There he was involved in the aerodynamic development and construction of launchers based on the German rocket Aggregat 4 (better known as A4 or V2 ).

Albring's grave in the Inner Plauen cemetery in Dresden

In June 1952, he returned from the Soviet Union in the GDR and became in 1952 as a full professor at the Technical University of Dresden and director of the newly founded Institute of Applied Fluid Mechanics, now Institute of Fluid Mechanics, appointed . In 1979 he retired . Albring died in Dresden in 2007 and was buried in the Inner Plauen cemetery .

In 1991 he published his memories of his time as a rocket engineer in the Soviet Union.

Work and honors

Albring's main work took place in the field of flow problems in turbomachinery and turbulence research.

He was a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin since 1961. In 1972 Albring received the GDR's national prize for science and technology. In 1984 he was appointed to the Protestant Research Academy in Berlin. The Technical University of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) and the Technical University of Budapest awarded him honorary doctorates in 1985 and 1991, respectively ; In 1995 he received the Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring , the highest distinction given by the German Aerospace Society .

Werner Albring was a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , whose honorary membership he was awarded in 2004 for his scientific life's work.

Fonts (selection)

  • Force measurements on the swinging wing. Dissertation Technical University, Hanover 1940
  • Tasks and possibilities of fluid mechanics in the development of mechanical engineering. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1957.
  • Applied fluid dynamics. Steinkopf, Dresden 1961; 6th edition: Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-05-500206-7 .
  • Elementary processes of fluid vortex movements. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1981.
  • Gorodomlia. German rocket researchers in Russia. Edited by Hermann Vinke . Luchterhand, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-630-86773-1 .

literature

  • Kurt Magnus : Rocket Slaves. German researchers behind red barbed wire . Elbe-Dnjepr-Verlag, Klitzschen 1993, ISBN 3-933395-61-5 (359 pages, Albring is referred to as “Baldung” in this work).
  • 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. 39 f.
  • Klaus-Peter Meinecke:  Albring, Werner . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Jochen Fröhlich, Stefan Odenbach, Konrad Vogeler (eds.): Fluid dynamics conference 2014. Conference on the occasion of Werner Albring's 100th birthday. TUDpress, Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-944331-78-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Albring, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albring, Werner Anton Oskar Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwelm , Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 2007
Place of death Dresden