Karl-Heinz Höcker

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Karl-Heinz Höcker in 1966

Karl-Heinz Höcker (27 December 1915 – 17 July 1998) was a German

Uranverein. After World War II, he worked at the university of Stuttgart
and was the founder of the Institut für Kernenergetik und Energiesysteme.

Early life and education

Höcker was born in Bremen. From 1935 to 1940, he studied at the University of Marburg and the Friedrich-Wilhelms University (in 1949 reorganized and renamed the Humboldt University of Berlin). He received his doctorate at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University, in 1940, under Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker.[1]

Career

After 1939, Höcker and

nuclear reactor). In 1942, Höcker was an Assistant (Assistant) at the KWIP.[1]

Many at the KWIP and those working on the Uranmaschine had the classification of unabkömmlich (uk, indispensable) and were exempt from being drafted into armed service. Both Höcker and his colleague Müller had the classification uk, but their fates were quite different. As the war raged on, the demand for men to provide armed service resulted in Höcker and Müller being drafted in late 1940 or early 1941. Not even

Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft (Kaiser Wilhelm Society).[2][3][4][5]

Shortly after return to the KWIP, Höcker became an Assistant to von Weizsäcker and they went to the German-occupied University of Strasbourg, Alsace, France. Höcker performed a theoretical analysis on the geometry for uranium reactors, concluding with the choice of the lattice arrangement.[6][7]

In 1943, most of the KWIP was evacuated to Hechingen in Southern Germany as a result of air raids on Berlin. In 1944, Höcker and von Weizsäcker evacuated Strasbourg and went to the KWIP facilities there.[8]

In 1948, Höcker was a supernumerary lecturer and in 1955 a supernumerary professor of theoretical physics and nucleonics at the University of Stuttgart.[1]

The beginning of the Institut für Kernenergetik und Energiesysteme (Institute for Nuclear Power and Energy Systems) was in 1955 when Höcker, at the University of Stuttgart, founded the Arbeitsgruppe zur Kerntechnik (Working Group on Nuclear Technology) and became its director. In 1963, Höcker occupied the newly created Lehrstuhl der Fakultät Maschinenwesen (Chair of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering) and was simultaneously appointed as Director of the Institut für Kernenergetik (Institute for Nuclear Power). In accordance with its expanded responsibilities, the institute is now known as the Institut für Kernenergetik und Energiesysteme (IKE). Höcker's 80th birthday, his role as founder and leader in the IKE, and the 40th anniversary of the IKE were celebrated by a Festkolloquium in 1996.[9]

Internal reports

The following reports were published in

Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center and the American Institute of Physics.[10][11]

Books

  • Wilhelm Bierfelder and Karl-Heinz Höcker (editors) Systemforschung und Neuerungsmanagement. Fachberichte und Referate. Band 11 (Oldenbourg, 1980)
    ISBN 3-486-24981-9

Selected literature

  • K.-H. Höcker Die Komponenten der kosmischen Strahlung und ihre Intensitäten in der Atmosphäre, Annalen der Physik Volume 441, Issue 1, 353–364 (1950)
  • E. Schopper, K. H. Höcker, G. Kuhn Secondary Nucleons in Lead, Physical Review Volume 82, Issue 3, 445–445 (1951). Institutional citation: Technische Hochschule, Stuttgart, Germany.

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Hentschel and Hentschel, 1996, Appendix F; see the entry for Höcker.
  2. ^ Walker, 1993, 42–43.
  3. ^ Paul Lawrence Rose Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project: A Study in German Culture (University of California, 1998).
  4. ^ Hentschel and Hentschel, 1996, Appendix B; see the entry for the RFR.
  5. ^ Macrakis, 1993, 94.
  6. ^ Hentschel and Hentschel, 1996, Appendix F; see the entries for Höcker and von Weizsäcker.
  7. ^ Bernstein, 2001, 41 and 46.
  8. ^ Walker, 1993, 152.
  9. ^ Festkolloquium: 40 Jahre Institut für Kernenergetik und Energiesysteme – Energiepolitik in der Diskussion, Pressemitteilung 40 Jahre Institut für Kernenergetik und Energiesysteme Universität Stuttgart (19 January 1996).
  10. ^ Hentschel and Hentschel, 1996, Appendix E; see the entry for Kernphysikalische Forschungsberichte.
  11. ^ Walker, 1993, 268–274.

External links

  • (IKE) – Institut für Kernenergetik und Energiesysteme, Universität Stuttgart Website


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