Adolf Emil Paul Gast ( German: Adolf Emil Paul Gast ; September 1, 1876, Wiesbaden - August 19, 1941, Innsbruck ) - German surveyor , professor and rector of the Rhine-Westphalian Technical University of Aachen ; author of “Our New Life Form. Technical and scientific project ”(1932), member of the NSDAP (since 1933).
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- 1 Biography
- 2 Works
- 3 Literature
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Biography
Adolf Emile Paul Gast was born on September 1, 1876 in Wiesbaden . After graduating from high school, he studied land management at the Berlin Agricultural College (Landwirtschaftlichen Hochschule Berlin), where he became a member of the student brotherhood Verbindung Saxonia ad Kette, later renamed RSC-Corps Saxonia-Berlin; He also studied at the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Bonn . In 1903, Gast, at the University of Heidelberg , under the direction of Professor Karl Wilhelm Valentiner , received a Ph.D. - and just a year later, under the direction of Paul Fenner (Paul Emmerich Fenner, 1852-1909), he became a Doctor of Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt . Gast then became a private assistant professor in geodesy at the University of Darmstadt, where he remained (intermittently) until 1911. From 1906 to 1909, he was the supervisor and director of the Military Academy at the Argentinean Instituto Geografico Militar (IGM) in Buenos Aires .
After this, Paul Gast took up the position of full professor of geodesy in Aachen , which he received on March 1, 1911, becoming the successor to Richard Schumann (Richard Schumann, 1864-1945). After a two-year hiatus in research activity, which he spent on the fronts of the First World War , Gast returned to Aachen, where in 1920-1922 he became the successor of Friedrich Klokman (Friedrich Ferdinand Hermann Klockmann, 1858-1937) as rector. After this, Gast again went to Argentina, where he now began to establish mathematical and geodetic studies; in 1926 he returned to Aachen.
A year after his return to the Weimar Republic , Gast became the head of the Geodetic Institute, which he created in Schneiderberg at the Hanover Technical University and which received its own astronomical observatory. As a result, in just a few years, Paul Gast created a “compact” institute for the full training of surveyors. At that time, he again made short-term trips abroad: in particular, he was engaged in terrestrial photogrammetry of the Ramesseum in Egypt .
On May 1, 1933, Paul Gast, one of the first among the professors of Hanover, became a member of the NSDAP : party ticket No. 2957992. At the same time, in 1932 he published the work “Our New Life Form. Technical and scientific project "(Unsere neue Lebensform. Eine technisch-wissenschaftliche Gestaltung) -" one of the strongest ideological works of National Socialism, standing on a par with the book " The Twentieth Century Myth " by Rosenberg . The work touched on philosophical issues such as the importance of technology and the creation of a new worldview. On November 11, 1933, Gast was among the more than 900 scholars and professors at German universities and universities who signed the " Statement of Professors Supporting Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist State ." Gast remained in Hanover until 1939; two years later he died in Innsbruck .
Works
- Die Technische Hochschule zu Aachen 1870-1920: eine Gedenkschrift. Aachen: La Ruelle'sche Accidenzdruckerei und Lith. Anstalt (Inh. Jos. Deterre), 1920.
- Gewichtsverhältnisse und Ausgleichung des polygonalen Dreiecks, in: Zeitschrift für Vermessungswesen Nr. 50, 1921.
- Vorlesung über Photogrammetrie, Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig, 1930.
- Erweiterung unseres Weltbildes und Sinn der Technik, in: Zeitschrift des VDI, Nr. 76, 1932.
- Hypothesenfreie Bestimmung der Erdfigur mit neuen Hilfsmitteln, in: Zeitschrift für Geophysik, Nr. 9, 1933.
- Die optische Pyramide, eine neues Gerät für die Passpunktbestimmung in der Luftbildmessung, in: Bildmessung und Luftbildwesen, Nr. 9, 1934.
Literature
- Richard Finsterwalder : Gast, Paul . In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , S. 85 f.
- Paul Trommsdorff : Der Lehrkörper der Technischen Hochschule Hannover 1831-1931, Hannover, 1931, S. 68.
- Carl Weigandt : Geschichte des Corps Saxonia-Berlin zu Aachen 1867-1967, Aachen, 1968.
- Anette Schröder : Männer der Technik im Dienst von Krieg und Nation: Studenten der TH Hannover. In: Baier, Karen, Frank Sparing, Wolfgang Woelk (Hrsg.), Universitäten und Hochschulen im Nationalsozialismus und in der frühen Nachkriegszeit. Wiesbaden 2004.
- Michael Jung : Voll Begeisterung schlagen unsere Herzen zum Führer. Die Technische Hochschule Hannover und ihre Professoren im Nationalsozialismus. BOD, Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6451-3 .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 116450509 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.