Willibald Lichtenheldt

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Willibald Lichtenheldt (born October 30, 1901 in Werdau ; † November 1, 1980 in Dresden ) was a German engineer and university professor .

Life

Grave of Willibald Lichtenheldt in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden

Willibald Lichtenheldt was born the son of a master painter in Werdau in Saxony. After graduating from high school, he worked in the industry in the field of precision tool construction and attended the Zwickau engineering school . He then worked as a designer . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP . In 1934 he enrolled as a student for general mechanical engineering at the TH Dresden . After completing his studies, he did his doctorate at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg and completed his habilitation there in 1942. Just one year later, through the commitment of Karl Kutzbach and Enno Heidebroek, he was appointed professor for transmission theory at the TH Dresden.

After the end of the Second World War , Willibald Lichtenheldt worked at Carl Zeiss Jena, among others, and was appointed to the reopened TH Dresden in 1950. From 1951 to 1955 he was dean of the mechanical engineering faculty. In 1956 he was elected a corresponding and in 1959 a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . Lichtenheldt received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver in 1961 and the National Prize of the GDR III in 1962 . Class. The TH Magdeburg awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1976.

Willibald Lichtenheldt died in Dresden in 1980. His grave is in the local Johannisfriedhof .

On its 100th birthday in 2001, the large lecture hall in the Zeuner building of the Technical University of Dresden was named Lichtenheldt-Hörsaal.

Works

  • Simple construction methods for determining the dimensions of crank gears (1941)
  • Lectures on the basics of transmission theory (1952)
  • Lectures on Kinematics (1952)
  • Gear technology in teaching and research (1957)
  • The importance of geometry in solving transmission problems (1959)
  • Gear design theory (1961)
  • Kinematics (2 volumes, 1961/62)

Literature and Sources

  • Willibald Lichtenheldt - Portrait of a brilliant teacher . Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at TU Dresden, AVMZ, DVD 2001.
  • Kurt Luck: Willibald Lichtenheldt (1901-1980) , in: Marco Ceccarelli (Ed.): Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science . Volume 1. Springer, The Netherlands 2007, pp. 247-265
  • Estate in the university archive of the Technical University of Dresden

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 200.
  2. ^ New Germany , October 10, 1961, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Lichtenheldt, Willibald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Werdau
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1980
Place of death Dresden