Michael Schmiechen, Berlin
News on various subjects
Last update: 2023.04.20
Obituary for Ruediger Snay
90th birthday of Horst Nowacki
The following notes on
- Ship theory 'before' CFD
-- practised and reflected
are my contribution to the 90th birthday of Horst Nowacki
on Frebruary 09, 1933.
Last corrections and updates: 2022.11.22
The paper is essentially a continuation of Bernard Caldwell's
history of ship theory in his chapter on Brunel's three great ships,
a contribution to 'The works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel',
an engineering appreciation edited by sir Alfred Pugyley, 1976.
Last update: 2023.02.12
My own 90th birthday
On occasion of my own 90th birthday our family met
for a lunch at the Abion Hotel at River Spree and
I welcomed our guests based on
- Notes on my life sofar .
Last update: 2022.04.24
85th birthday of Heinrich S�ding
On occasion of his 85th birthday Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Heinrich Soeding will be honored by a colloquium held
at the Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Ship Theory
of TU Hamburg-Harburg on October 8, 2021.
In view of my age I shall not attend the colloquium,
but took this occasion to send a personal letter
- To Heinrich Soeding .
Last update: 2021.09.22
Obituary for Helmut Schwanecke
On April 07, 2018, Prof. Dr.-Ing.
- Hemut Schwanecke,
two times my boss at VWS, the Berlin Model Basin,
passed away.
Last update: 2019.04.10
Obituary for Burkhard M�ller-Graf
On March 29, 2018, Dr.-Ing.
- Burkhard M�ller-Graf,
for decades my restless colleague at VWS, the Berlin Model Basin,
passed away.
Last update: 2019.03.11
In memoriam of Gert Fischer
On May 27, 2018, my classmate at the Sachsenwald-Schule
Reinbek until 1952 and my fellow student of Mechanical
Engineering at the Technische Hochschule
Braunschweig until 1954
- Gert Fischer
passed away.
Last update: 2018.08.15
Memories and Experiences
The following document
- Erinnerungen und Erfahrungen
is the complete text of an invited talk delivered at the annual
Advent party of students of naval architecture at the Institut f�r
Schiffs- und Meerestechnik of the Technical University Berlin.
It contains 'only' some, very personal memories and experiences
of the author during the past eighty years, not even referring to
the twenty years of his working and travelling for the ITTC.
Last correction: 2016.12.21
Thanks to R�diger Snay's roast geese
After twenty-five years of having been annually hosted
by R�diger Snay the permanent guests, a small group
of his former colleagues at VWS, the Berlin Model Basin,
die 'Anstalt' auf der Schleuseninsel im Tiergarten,
finally realised, that it was high time to return
his invitations and explicitly express their
- most sincere thanks.
At Frank-Peter Schindler's retirement from TUB
On occasion of the retirement of Frank-Peter Schindler
from his duties at TUB as scientific manager since 1998,
the author has made the following remarks on
- Wissenschaft und Management.
Henning Schreyer 80!
On occasion of the 80th birthday of Henning Schreyer a present
on 'time and space' has been accompanied by the following
pertinnent remarks
- Nicht nur �ber Zeit und Raum.
Last update: 2015.10.22
On the dawn of consciousness
The following e-mails (in German) are collections of remarks
concerning the concept of God and the theory of
- the origin of modern consciousness
conceived by Julian Jaynes and promoted by his followers.
Last update: 2014.01.31
Horst Nowacki 80!
My 'final' lecture
The following material has originally been documented
under 'News on general subjects', but is felt be more
appropriate at this location.
On July 01, 2011, I have held my final lecture
after forty years of lecturing on 'Hydromechanical Systems',
essentially on professional problem solving,
following my habilitation 1970 initially as Privat-Dozent
and later, since 1975 as apl. Professor,
at the Institut f�r Schiffs- und Meerestechnik (ISM)
of the Technical University Berlin.
On that occasion the following 'papers' have been presented:
- Laudatio von Prof. Horst Nowacki,
- mein Vorwort zur Vorlesung,
- meine Powerpoint Folien,
- Rede des Ordensmeisters der Heyligen Frau Latte
- und die Verleihung des Titels 'seine Metatheorie'.
In addition summaries of the oral discussion with Dr. Wagner,
- Diskussion mit Dr. Wagner
and of the subsequent written discussion mit Prof. Nowacki,
- Korrespondenz mit Prof. Nowacki,
- Notizen zu meiner Dissertation,
- Notizen zu meiner Meta-Physik
have been prepared.
The latter notes resulted in further comments,
- einer Replik von Horst Nowacki,
and in my explanatory e-mail,
- meinen weiteren Erl�uterungen,
both of which may be of general interest.
Finally my explanatory e-mail has been commented
by further remarks,
- durch Bemerkungen von Horst Nowacki,
which confirm our fundamental disagreement
on the nature, genesis and use of theories
as I am explaining in my closing remarks,
- in meinem Schlusswort,
drafted to mark the end of this correspondence,
but certainly not the end of our dispute.
An extended presentation of the lecture of July 01, 2011,
has been given on November 25, 2011, at the Institut
f�r Schiffstechnik, Meerestechnik und Transportsysteme (ISMT)
of the University Duisburg-Essen in Duisburg.
Last update: 2011.11.26
On Gulliver's journey to the Houyhnhnms
On occasion of the 104. Annual Meeting of the
Schiffbautechnische Gesellschaft at Berlin
in November 2009 the author has been awarded
the Silberne Denkm�nze of STG.
The following have been his words of thanks,
- seine Worte des Danks.