Werner Droste

Werner Droste (born September 5, 1929 in Eichwalde ; † 1995 ) was a German professor for electrical systems on ships.

Droste studied electrical engineering at the technical universities of Stuttgart and Darmstadt and passed the diploma examination in 1956. He then headed the development department at Lloyd Dynamowerke , Bremen, switched to a development engineer at AEG Schiffbau in Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1964.

From 1968 he headed the AEG shipbuilding development department and was able to get involved in the developing automation of ships. Within around 10 years, automation has halved the number of crews from 40 to 20 on new, automated overseas ships. Droste earned merit with the introduction of wave generators on ships, dynamos that are arranged in the shaft train and driven by the main engine. This resulted in advantages, particularly in heavy oil operation, through lower fuel costs and lower wear on the auxiliary diesel.

In 1973 the Technical University of Berlin gave Droste the teaching assignment for electrical systems on ships . In 1978 he took over the Institute for Ship Auxiliary Machines at the University of Hanover and was appointed professor. Here he justified the advantages of the gliding frequency, the use of which on ships was established by several shipping companies due to extremely high oil prices . After the drop in oil prices in the 1980s, however, this invention was forgotten again. With the relocation of ship technology from Hanover, Droste and employees went to the newly founded Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg and set up the auxiliary machinery and automation work area (today the Institute for Electrical Systems and Automation ).

Droste was a committed engineer, professor and doctoral supervisor. Many publications and over 50 patent applications testify to his creative activity. Droste received the silver commemorative coin from the Shipbuilding Society (STG) in 1994 for his services, especially for his lectures to the society, but also for the management of the ship electrical engineering committee of the STG.

• Shaft generator with an externally ventilated synchronous machine with large surge short-circuit reactance (German Patent Office, application number 1613830)

literature

• Shipbuilding Society eV - 1996 yearbook

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Droste in the catalog of the German National Library