Hans Jakob Piloty [Pioneers in CAS]

Hans Jakob Piloty came from an upper-class Munich family of artists and scholars. In 1913, he began studying electrical engineering at the Technical University of Munich. After volunteering in the First World War, he obtained his diploma in 1921 and received his doctorate in 1923 under Leo Kadrnozka (1872–1922). From 1925 he was chief engineer at AEG Berlin. In the power plants department, he worked on questions relating to energy transmission. In 1931 he was appointed to the Chair for Electrical Measurement Technology at TUM. In his institute, during the Nazi regime, “war-important” orders in the field of telecommunications, high-frequency technology and electroacoustics were carried out for all three armed forces (army, air force and navy).