Wilhelm Chamberlain

Grave of Wilhelm Kämmerer in the north cemetery (Urnenhain IIIB) in Jena

Wilhelm Kämmerer (born July 23, 1905 in Büdingen ; † August 15, 1994 in Jena ) was a German engineer and computer pioneer in the GDR .

biography

Kämmerer attended the Wolfgang-Ernst-Gymnasium in Büdingen from 1914 until his Abitur on March 2, 1923 . He studied mathematics and physics in Göttingen and Gießen , where he received his PhD in 1927. phil. PhD . From 1930 he was active in the school service in Naumburg an der Saale . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP . From 1943 he worked in the Zeiss works in Jena .

From 1946 to 1953 he worked in the Soviet Union. Back in Germany he was part of the development team of the relay - mainframe OPREMA in VEB "Carl Zeiss" in Jena , which was put into operation 1955th He also developed the theoretical basics for building the ZRA 1 computer , which was used for technical operations and technical training in the GDR. In 1955 he received the GDR national prize for collective science and technology. In 1970 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1991 he received the Konrad Zuse Medal for services to computer science from the Society for Computer Science .

In addition to his technical developments, he was the author of a number of specialist books on calculators and the mathematical applications of cybernetics .

literature

Annette Vogt: Wilhelm Kämmerer . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Literature by and about Wilhelm Kämmerer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Dr. Volkmar Stein: The students of the Büdinger grammar school between 1790 and 1946. Büdingen 1994.
↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 160.

personal data
SURNAME	Chamberlain, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German engineer and computer pioneer of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH	July 23, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Büdingen
DATE OF DEATH	August 15, 1994
Place of death	Jena

[1] Dr. Volkmar Stein: The students of the Büdinger grammar school between 1790 and 1946. Büdingen 1994.

[2] Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 160.