Wilhelm Richter (physicist)
Wilhelm Richter (born January 26, 1906 in Duisburg , † September 19, 1978 in Dresden ) was a German physicist and university professor .
Life
Wilhelm Richter was born in Duisburg in 1906 as the son of a businessman. From 1925 to 1931 he studied physics at the TH Munich and the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg , where he worked as a scientific assistant after graduating. After completing his doctorate, Wilhelm Richter became a research assistant at the German Aviation Research Institute in Berlin-Adlershof in 1932 . Wilhelm Richter was an active member of the KPD and was arrested by the National Socialists in 1935. In 1937 he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Until the end of the Second World War he was imprisoned in Brandenburg prison .
In 1948 he first became a senior assistant at the Physics Institute of the Bergakademie Freiberg , a position that was associated with a teaching position. After his habilitation in 1951, the TH Dresden appointed Wilhelm Richter in 1953 as director of the newly founded Institute for Applied Aerodynamics at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Later he was elected the first dean of the newly founded Faculty of Lightweight Construction (later the Faculty of Aviation). In 1961, the aviation faculty was dissolved and Wilhelm Richter worked from then on in the energy conversion section in the field of heat and mass transfer in flows. In 1971 Wilhelm Richter retired. He died in Dresden in 1978. His grave is in the local heather cemetery .
One year after his death, the Technical University of Dresden named the wind tunnel test hall of today's Institute for Aerospace Technology after Wilhelm Richter.
Fonts
- Investigations to find carbonic acid esters in potash mining with geoelectric measuring methods. Habilitation thesis. 1951.
- Textbook on flight mechanics. 1951.
- Flight mechanics. 1959.
- Co-author: International Bibliography of Fluid Dynamics 1959–1962. 1963
literature
- Technical University of Dresden: buildings and names. Technical University of Dresden, Dresden 1997.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Richter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Portrait of Wilhelm Richter on ua.tu-dresden.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date of birth by building and name , date January 24, 1906 according to the university archives .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Judge, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German aerodynamicist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 19, 1978 |
| Place of death | Dresden |