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'''Gustav Niemann''' (Rheine, 9 February 1899 &ndash; [[Place:Munich|Munich]], 1 January 1982) was a [[Engineering:Mechanical engineering|mechanical engineering]] professor who is regarded as an expert in [[Engineering:Machine element|machine element]]s.<ref name="vdi">{{cite web|url=https://www.vdi-wissensforum.de/de/nc/presse/details/article/branchentreff-der-internationalen-antriebsindustrie/|title=Branchentreff der internationalen Antriebsindustrie|work=vdi-wissensforum.de|access-date=2015-06-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013073723/http://www.vdi-wissensforum.de/de/nc/presse/details/article/branchentreff-der-internationalen-antriebsindustrie/|archive-date=2013-10-13|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Niemann studied mechanical engineering at the [[Organization:Technische Universität Darmstadt|Technische Universität Darmstadt]] from 1919 to 1923. In 1928 he was promoted at the [[Organization:Technical University of Berlin|Technische Hochschule Berlin]] with the doctoral dissertation ''Über Wippkrane mit wagrechtem Lastwippweg'' (''On Tower Cranes with Horizontal Load Yield'').<ref name="nodak">{{cite web|url=http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=53272|title=The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Gustav Niemann|work=nodak.edu}}</ref> He taught at the Braunschweig University of Technology from 1934 to 1950, and at the Technische Universität München from 1951 to 1968. He was a recipient of the Grashof medal from the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure and the E. P. Connell medal from the [[Organization:American Gear Manufacturers Association|American Gear Manufacturers Association]], and was also an honorary member of the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers.<ref name="ndb">{{NDB|19|232|233|Niemann, Gustav|Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoß|138525099}}</ref> Niemann was married to Marie-Luise (née Plaßmann, 1910 &ndash; 1987); the couple did not have any children.<ref name="ndb"/>

== Bibliography ==
* Niemann, Gustav; Hirt, Manfred: ''Maschinenelemente''. Springer, Berlin 1975, 1983. {{ISBN|0-387-06809-0}}.
** Volume 1: ''Konstruktion und Berechnung von Verbindungen, Lagern, Wellen''
** Volume 2: ''Getriebe allgemein, Zahnradgetriebe - Grundlagen, Stirnradgetriebe''
** Volume 3: ''Schraubrad-, Kegelrad-, Schnecken-, Ketten-, Riemen-, Reibradgetriebe, Kupplungen, Bremsen, Freiläufe''

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{German National Library portal|138525099}}


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