Karl Mey

Karl Mey ( born March 16, 1879 in Wandersleben in Gotha, Thuringia, † unknown, after May 1945) was a German physicist and Industry from 1933 to 1935 chairman of the German Physical Society ( DPG).

Life

Training

Mey studied mathematics and physics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He received his doctorate in 1902 with his work over the cathode gap of the alkali metals.

Career

Mey was. Following his studies at the military trial Office Tegel and then at the General Electric Company, where he specialized in the improvement of incandescent lamps In 1909 he became the head of AEG Glühlampenfabrik.

In World War Mey served from 1914 to 1917 in the infantry on the Western Front.

After the war Mey took his position at AEG again and headed to the merger of AEG with the Auer Company and the Siemens & Halske AG, Osram AG, the research and development department.

Around 1931, Mey Vice President of the German Glass Technology and Society from 1931 to 1945 he was president of the Society for Technical Physics. From 1933 to 1935 he was Chairman of the DPG. The choice of Mey president of the DPG in the year of Hitler's election as chancellor was a clear sign of the independence of the National Socialist policy (?).

In May 1945, Mey was captured by Soviet soldiers and deported as " leading Industrial Military " in the Soviet Union.

Publications

• Karl Mey: Over the cathode gap of the alkali metals. In: Annals of Physics. Volume 316, Issue 5, 1903