Franz Ollendorff

Franz Heinrich Ollendorff ( born March 15, 1900 in Berlin -Charlottenburg, † December 9, 1981 in Haifa, Israel ) was a German electrical engineer.

Life

He was the son of a Jewish merchant Nathan Ollendorff and his wife Martha. In 1918 he graduated from high school at the Mommsen gymnasium and studied electrical engineering at the Technische Hochschule (TH ) Berlin. Then he went in 1922 as an assistant at the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the University of Gdansk, where he conducted research on high frequency technology. Here he also met his future wife, Ruth Kaetler know.

Because of the emergence of anti-Semitism in Gdansk, they went to Berlin, where he worked at Siemens -Schuckert. In 1928 he was lecturer and chief engineer at the Department of Privy Councillor Ernst Orlich of Theoretical Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin.

After he and the TH Berlin was expelled in 1933, he worked as a teacher at a Jewish elementary school. In the fall of 1934 he emigrated to Palestine, where he wanted to teach at a Notschule for immigrants. In poor health, he returned in 1935 to Berlin, where he has directed the Youth Aliyah school.

In March 1937 Franz Ollendorff moved permanently over to Palestine, where he is now in Haifa taught electrical engineering at the Technion and the following year became a professor. In 1954 he was awarded the Israel Prize. 1960 gave the TU Berlin him an honorary doctorate.