Hubert Schardin

Hubert Hermann Reinhold Schardin (17 June 1902 Plassow – 27 September 1965 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German ballistics expert, engineer and academic who studied in the field of high-speed photography and cinematography.

From autumn 1935 to spring 1936, Schardin accompanied Cranz to China, where they established a ballistics institute in Nanking for the Chinese military.

At war's end, the Institute for Technical Physics and Ballistics in Gatow was transferred to Biberach an der Riß in Southern Germany.

Schardin was invited by France to work with his team for the French government in the Alsatian town of Saint-Louis, near the West-German border.

[2] Schardin, now Director of Science and Technology, continued his studies at the institute in Saint-Louis on high-speed physics and glass fracture.

Long-time enemies France and Germany had now united for the common defense, an early step in the modern European renaissance.

After the establishment of the ISL, Schardin sought contact with the nearby German University in Freiburg im Breisgau.

After some initial restrictions imposed by the occupying powers after World War II, Schardin was soon able to pursue new research topics in the Department of Applied Physics, and after 1955 at EMI.

In October 1964, Professor Schardin was appointed Head of Military Technology in the Ministry of Defense of the Federal Republic of Germany.