Walter Weber (26 March 1907 in

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– 18 July 1944 in German-occupied

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) was a German pioneer of

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. From 1925 to 1927 he studied at the Oldenburg Academy of Engineering. From 1 May 1928 to 31 December 1930 he was an engineer at the central laboratory of Siemens & Halske AG in Berlin. There he met Hans-Joachim von Braunmühl. When he moved to the laboratory of the

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, he followed him there in 1931. On 2 November 1938, he defended his thesis ''Das Schallspektrum von Knallfunken und Knallpistolen mit einem Beitrag über Anwendungsmöglichkeiten in der elektroakustischen Meßtechnik''. (''The sound spectrum of spark transmitters and oscillators with a contribution on possible applications in electroacoustic measuring technology''), . On 18 April 1940 the pair re-invented RF bias (HFVM), and on 10 June that year they exhibited their "HF magnetophone" at the Ufa Palace cinema in Berlin.

References

*''Funkschau'' 44 / 7–8 / 53: "Oberingenieur Dr. Walter Weber zum Gedächtnis". *Hans Joachim von Braunmühl. "Oberingenieur Dr. Weber zum Gedächtnis". ''Reichsrundfunk'', 9/10. Issue 1944/45, August 1944, p. 110

External links

*Friedrich Karl Engel
"Walter Weber's Technical Innovation at the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Weber, Walter 1907 births 1944 deaths German electrical engineers People from Gelsenkirchen Engineers from North Rhine-Westphalia