Max Schuler
Maximilian Schuler ( born February 5, 1882 in Zweibrücken, † 30 July 1972 in Göttingen; native Maximilian Joseph John Edward Schuler ) was a German engineer, mechanical engineer, and taught as a professor at the University in Göttingen.
Life
Schuler made in 1901 Abitur at Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich.
He studied from 1902 to 1907 at the Technical University of Munich and was a member of the Corps Franconia Munich since 1903. The student of Professor August Foppl who was familiar with the centrifugal theory, were introduced in 1908 as a design engineer for the company Anschütz & Co. to Kiel. Where he was director from 1910 to 1922.
1914 to 1919 he served as an officer in military service in the Imperial Navy. In 1921 he received his doctorate at the Technical University Munich Dr.- Ing .. In 1924 he completed his habilitation at the University of Göttingen for Applied Mechanics. From 1934 until his retirement in 1946 he was director of the Institute for Applied Mechanics in Göttingen.
Together with his cousin Hermann Anschütz - fights he was the inventor of the multi gyro, automatic ship control and the turn coordinator for aircraft. According to him, the Schuler period is named with a oscillation period of 84.4 minutes also the Schuler pendulum, a balancing or minimum pendulum, which in astronomical clocks ( Schuler - clock ) is used. He pointed out during the Second World War orders of the High Command of the Navy and the Army Research Center Peenemünde.