Werner Rambauske

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Werner R. Rambauske (born March 18, 1911 in Breslau ; † November 19, 1988 in Emerson Hospital, Concord ) was a German-American physicist and inventor.

He graduated from a German university in 1931 and continued to study astrophysics , physics and mathematics at the universities of Munich, Göttingen and Berlin, where he obtained his doctorate in 1940.

Until 1945 he was director of the Askania laboratories in Berlin. From 1939, from June 1944 until the end of the war at the Institute for Physical Research in Bayreuth with Bodo Lafferentz , he was researching a " brush " target device with an iconoscope for remote-controlled bombs. Tests with a motorboat were carried out on Lake Madu in Pomerania. This self-control work was later taken up by Karl Küpfmüller .

From 1947 he was a physicist at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base . From 1956 to 1968 he was professor of physics at the University of Dayton . Around 1965 he became Vice President and Technical Director of Spacerays, Inc. in New York. During this time he worked with Ronald R. Gruenzel.

From 1976 to 79 he worked at Raytheon . He later lived in Carlisle, Ohio . He married Hedy M. Kropp († 2008), with whom he had three children.

literature

  • Albrecht Bald, Jörg Skriebeleit: The Bayreuth satellite camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp . C. and C. Rabenstein, Bayreuth 2003, ISBN 3-928683-30-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Boston Globe (Boston, MA): PHYSICIST WERNER R. RAMBAUSKE, HELD MANY AWARDS FOR WORK; AT 77 ( memento from January 25, 2013 in the archive.today web archive ), November 21, 1988.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel: Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Ravensbrück . CH Beck, 2006, ISBN 3-406-52964-X , p. 74 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Governmentattic.org: Technical Intelligence Supplement , 1946.
  4. ↑ patentbuddy.com: Werner R Rambauske, Inventor, Carlisle, MA
  5. ↑ Tributes.com: Hedy M. Rambauske Obituary
personal data
SURNAME Rambauske, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rambauske, Werner R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American physicist and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1988
Place of death Concord, Massachusetts