Alfred Schack
German inventor and entrepreneur
Alfred Schack (1895 – 1978) was a German inventor and entrepreneur.
Life and work
Alfred Schack was the son of the protestant pastor Albert Schack and had five siblings. He visited the high school and showed already in his school time great interest in physics, mathematics and electricity.
In World War I, he served as volunteer at the front from 1914 to 1918. Shortly before end of war, he was taken prisoner and spent one year in English captivity. After his release, he started studying physics at the University of Königsberg and as of 1920 at the Technische Hochschule Danzig. In his last semester he was assistant at the Physikalische Institut in Danzig and passed his diploma examination in Technical Physics.
In 1922, Schack moved to Düsseldorf and became one year later an employee at the fuel and power department of the Verein Deutscher Eisenhüttenleute (Association of German Steel Manufacturers). In the same year, he married Dorothea Schuhmacher, with whom he had three children.
In 1924, he wrote his dissertation “Über die Strahlung der Feuergase und ihre praktische Umsetzung” (About the Radiation of Firing Gases and their practical Implementation).
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