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Andreas Hempfer

Main Department of Traffic, Mobility, Transport

Curator

Address

Deutsches Museum
80306 Munich

Telephone +49 89 2179 643
Fax +49 89 2179 99350
Email a.hempfer@deutsches-museum.de

Curriculum Vitae

Berufliche Tätigkeiten

Seit 2017
Curator Aviation until 1945

2015 – 2017
Scientific traineeship at the Deutsches Museum, Aviation Department

Hochschulausbildung

2011 – 2015
Master's degree in history and culture of science and technology at the Technischen Universität of Berlin. During his studies, he led, among other things, the student project on urban and transport planning of the “Dritten Reiches” for the “Welthauptstadt Germania“ ” as well as several internships in the aviation department of the Deutsches Museum in Munich

2008 – 2011
Bachelor's degree in History of Natural Sciences and Technology with a minor in History at the University of Stuttgart. Internship at the Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen

Focal points of research activity

  • Cooperation project with Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, X-ray technology development center EZRT: CT-Scan scan of the Messerschmitt Me 163
  • Exhibition concepts for contaminated exhibits from the National Socialist era
  • Restoration ethics in dealing with technical cultural assets
  • Cooperation projects with the Technical University of Munich, including the history of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-3 at Deutsches Museum
  • Restoration and exhibition concepts for the original Lilienthal glider of the Deutsches Museum

Exhibitions / Projects

Publications (selection)

  • A.Hempfer, "Raketenwaffe Aggregat A 4 (V2)", 1945. In "Die Welt der Technik in 100 Objekten", W. M. Heckl (Hrsg.), C. H. Beck, 2022, S. 5-7.
  • Hempfer; Stoessel, Pamplona (u.a.): Computed Tomography testing at remains of a glider from Otto Lilienthal, 8th Conference on Industrial Computed Tomography, Wels, Austria (iCT 2018)
  • Hempfer, Andreas: Objekt W: Ehemaliges Max Planck-Institut für Metallforschung. In: Hentschel, Klaus (Hrsg.): Historischer Campusführer der Universität Stuttgart: Teil I, Stadtmitte. Stuttgart 2010, S. 153 – 164

Lectures

„Friedrich Förster: Elektrische und magnetische Verfahren zerstörungsfreier Materialprüfung mit Fokus auf Entwicklungen für das Reichsluftfahrtministerium“; Beitrag zur Vortragsreihe „Research Technologies – Forschungstechnologien“ auf der 94. Jahrestagung der DGGMNT in Stuttgart am 25. September 2011.