Werner Gruner

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Werner Gruner (born June 7, 1904 in Terpitzsch near Colditz ; † June 29, 1995 in Dresden ) was a German mechanical engineer , sheet metal working specialist, agricultural machine technician and university lecturer .

Live and act

Werner Gruner was matriculated at the Technical University of Dresden from 1923 to 1928 after completing his Abitur in Leipzig in 1923 . During his studies he became a member of the Cheruscia Dresden fraternity in 1923 . Until obtaining the exam ( Dr.-Ing. ) He worked as a research assistant at the university; Gruner is considered a student of Ewald Sachsenberg . In 1932 he moved to the sheet metal manufacturer, metal and lacquer goods factory Johannes Großfuß in Döbeln . From 1933 he was a party member of the NSDAP . As a series production specialist in Döbeln, he played a key role in the development of the 42 machine gun , which replaced the previous MG 34 model from 1942 . In 1943 Gruner became a lecturer for the non-cutting shaping of sheet metal at the Technical University of Braunschweig , where he worked until 1944. Due to the turmoil of the war at the end of 1944, he was no longer able to take up his appointment at the Technical University of Aachen . So he returned to Döbeln, where he witnessed the invasion of the Red Army in May 1945 .

Gruner's grave at the Weißer Hirsch forest cemetery

As a technical and scientific specialist, Gruner was brought to the Soviet Union in 1945 or 1946 , from which he was able to return to Dresden in 1950 or 1952. From 1952 he read as a professor with a teaching position at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering there, manufacturing technology for non-cutting forming . From 1953 he was a full professor for mechanical engineering, in 1969 he also took over as a full professor at the Institute for Agricultural Engineering and the directorate of the section for motor vehicle, agricultural and mechanical engineering. Conveyor technology from the Dresden University of Technology . In the meantime, Gruner was rector of the TH Dresden from 1958 to 1961, succeeding Kurt Pommer . As such, in 1959 he invited student representatives from the Free University of Berlin and the TU Berlin-Charlottenburg to witness the first Dresden student trial before the Dresden District Court because of the 16-point student program . After national and international media were informed about the process at a press conference in West Berlin, the second student process in Dresden then took place behind closed doors.

In 1969 Gruner retired, but continued to hold lectures at the TU Dresden until 1978.

According to the university files, Gruner remained non-party in the GDR, as did the handbook Who was who in the GDR? confirms his independence after 1945. He was involved in the Society for German-Soviet Friendship , in the Kulturbund , as a member of the Chamber of Technology and as chairman of the Urania - Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge in the Dresden District .

Werner Gruner died in Dresden and was buried in the Weißer Hirsch forest cemetery.

Honors

In 1940 and 1944 Gruner received the Second and First Class War Merit Cross and in 1944 the Dr. Fritz Todt Prize in silver.

In 1959 Gruner was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit , in 1961 the National Prize of the GDR Second Class and in 1969 the Order of the Labor Banner . In 1972 he received the Dr. Ing. H. c. the University of Agricultural Machinery in Rostov on Don . In 1979 he was made an honorary senator of the TU Dresden. In the same year he received the Dr. H. c. the Wilhelm Pieck University in Rostock.

Fonts

  • Experiments on machine-cutting stone with smooth-edged steel strips and quartz sand. Berlin 1933.
  • Measurement technology and measurement methods for research in the field of agricultural engineering. Prague 1958.
  • Ten years of the GDR, ten years of the TH Dresden: Ceremonial address. Dresden 1959.
  • University and practice. Dresden 1960.
  • Problems of measurement, control and regulation technology in agriculture. Berlin 1966.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 160.
  2. ^ Klaus Mauersberger: Friedrich Eduard Ewald Sachsenberg . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  3. ^ List of PhD students at the TH Dresden for the period 1900 to 1945 -G-. Retrieved June 29, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Werner Gruner in the Munzinger archive , accessed on February 24, 2015 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  5. ↑ a b c Siegfried Kuntsche, Uwe Fraunholz:  Gruner, Werner . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  6. ↑ a b c d e f University archive of the TU Dresden, personal file Prof. Werner Gruner.
  7. ↑ Gruner, Werner at tu-dresden.de. Retrieved November 16, 2012 .
  8. ^ The Dresden student trial from 1959 ( Memento from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Gruner, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, designer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Terpitzsch
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1995
Place of death Dresden