Wilhelm Schwinning

Wilhelm Schwinning (born August 20, 1874 in Potsdam ; † 1955 ) was a German metallurgist and university professor at the TH Dresden from 1919 to 1934.

Life

He studied at the TH Berlin . During his studies in 1893 he became a member of the Erato Dresden singers . His doctorate in physics took place in 1898 at the University of Rostock . Then he worked for Richard Stribeck at the central office for scientific and technical investigations in the physical and metallurgical department in Neubabelsberg near Berlin. In 1909 he became professor of weapon design and mechanical technology at the Military Technical Academy and a member of the artillery examination commission . After their dissolution as a result of the Versailles Treaty in 1919, Schwinning was appointed to a full chair for metallurgy and metallography at the TH Dresden. In 1933 he was suspended by the Nazi regime and finally dismissed in 1934 for unknown reasons, although in November 1933 he signed the confession of the German professors to Adolf Hitler . He went to Nanking in the Republic of China , where he opened a materials testing institute for military purposes together with Carl Cranz as part of the German weapons aid for Chiang Kai-shek .

Private

Schwinning was married and had two sons named Helmut (* 1911) and Karl-Heinz. He is a descendant of the mercenary Peter Hagendorf .

Fonts

• Investigations into disturbances due to thermal after-effects on hot-wire galvanometers and suggestions for eliminating them , Rostock 1898 (= Diss.)
• The spark photography, in particular the multiple spark photography in its usability for the representation of the projectile effect in the human body: after by the medical department of the Royal Prussian War Ministry in association with the Central Agency for scientific technical investigations in Neu-Babelsberg in this experiment / edit. by F. Kranzfelder and Wilhelm Schwinning, Berlin 1903
• Land War - III. Guns and ammunition, b. The technical execution - new designs of guns and ammunition , in: Schwarte, Max (ed.): The technology in the world wars , Berlin 1920, pp. 72–81
• Construction and material of the gun barrels and rifle barrels , Berlin 1934
• The development of materials research in the 20th century , history of technology, vol. 28, edition sigma, Berlin 1939

literature

• Helmut Maier : Research as a weapon. Armaments research in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Metal Research 1900–1945 / 48. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007 (esp. P. 113f) (= History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism, edited by Reinhard Rürup and Wolfgang Schieder on behalf of the Presidential Commission of the Max Planck Society, vol. 16)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 124.