Wilhelm Chamberlain
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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.
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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 |