Wilhelm Runge
Wilhelm Tolmé Runge (born June 10, 1895 in Hanover ; † June 9, 1987 in Ulm ) was a German electrical engineer who was instrumental in the development of radar technology , particularly during the Second World War . He held over a hundred patents in the field of electrical engineering.
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The son of Carl Runge (professor of mathematics at the TH Hannover ) and his wife Aimée (née Du Bois-Reymond ) had a brother and four sisters. As a volunteer in World War I, Runge was with a telegraph unit , where he took over the management of a radio station.
After studying high-frequency technology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and the TH Darmstadt , he began working in the development laboratory of the Telefunken Gesellschaft für wireless Telegraphie mbH in Berlin , of which he became head in autumn 1924. He developed measurement and calculation methods for the construction of receivers and began in 1930 with research into retro-reflective and directional radio technology in the decimeter wave range . In the years 1935–1942 he headed the entire Telefunken laboratory and was, among other things, responsible for the development of the “Würzburg” and “Lichtenstein” radar devices.
After working towards the end of the Second World War as head of an institute of the German Aviation Research Institute , he returned to Telefunken and rebuilt the development department there. From 1955 until his retirement in 1963, Wilhelm T. Runge took over the development and management of the research institute of Telefunken in Ulm.
Awards and honors
- In 1968 he received the VDE Ring of Honor.
- In 1989, Wilhelm-Runge-Strasse was named in his honor in Ulm's Science Park II industrial estate . The Telefunken research center of the acquired AEG-Telefunken was integrated into the Daimler research center at Wilhelm-Runge-Straße 11. At Wilhelm-Runge-Straße 1, the company Vodafone operates a radio relay hub for its mobile network.
literature
- Doris Rangnick: Runge, Wilhelm Tolmé. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 261 f. ( Digitized version ).
- E. Thiele (Ed.): Telefunken after 100 years: the legacy of a German global brand . Nicolai, Berlin 2003
- Wilhelm T. Runge Me and Telefunken. Memory of 40 years (1923-1963) . Unpublished manuscript, 1971 (in the historical archive of the Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin )
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Runge in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information on EADS.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ VDE ring of honor . Accessed January 31, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Runge, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Runge, Wilhelm Tolmé (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German electrical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 1987 |
| Place of death | Ulm |