Moritz Schröter

Maximilian Moritz Schröter (25 February 1851 – 12 March 1925) was a German industrial engineer and university professor of thermodynamics and the theory of machines.

Life and career[]

Moritz Schröter was the son of Moritz Schröter, who himself was a university professor. After his father′s death in 1867, Gustav Zeuner became the guardian of 16-year-old Schröter. After finishing the Gymnasium in Zürich, Schröter studied at the Polytechnikum Zürich, where he was awarded a diploma in engineering. From 1873 to 1876 he worked in the locomotive factory Georg Sigl in Wiener Neustadt. He then returned to Zürich, to become the university assistant of . In 1879, Schröter became a professor of theory of machines at the Technical University of Munich, where he built a new laboratory for machine design. From 1908 to 1911, he was the university's rector. Schröter helped designing four important machines in engineering history: the refrigerator (1887), the steam superheater (1894/1895), the Diesel engine (1897), and the steam turbine (1900).

Bibliography[]

• : Schröter, Moritz. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Issue 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007 ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3, pp. 587