Ferdinand Schleicher

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Ferdinand Alois Schleicher (born July 21, 1900 in Schönbach , Egerland , † June 8, 1957 in Dortmund ) was a German civil engineer , university professor and specialist author .

Life

Schleicher was in 1923 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Dr.-Ing.) For Doctor of Engineering PhD . His dissertation was entitled “Determination of the elastic displacements of single and double curved bars as rotations and / or. Screws around the central axes of moment surfaces ” (Karlsruhe 1924).

In 1925 he became a private lecturer for statics and elasticity theory at the Technical University of Karlsruhe. From 1927 to 1933 he was an engineer at the MAN plant in Gustavsburg and in 1933 he switched to Eisenbau Wyhlen AG ( district of Lörrach ) as an authorized signatory .

In 1934 Schleicher was appointed full professor for statics and steel construction at the Technical University of Hanover . This was the chair for which the honorary professor Hugo Kulka was originally intended, but which had been expelled from the university in early 1933 for racist reasons. Schleicher was already a member of the NSBO management at MAN from 1927 to 1933 and joined the NSDAP in 1933 ( membership number 2020255). Among other things, as dean of the Faculty of Construction, he played a leading role in the further Nazification of the university. He then moved to the Technical University of Berlin from 1937 to 1945 .

After the Second World War , Schleicher worked as a civil engineer in Berlin and Düsseldorf from 1946 and was also an author. In 1949 he became an honorary professor at the Technical University of Aachen . After all, Schleicher became a board member of Dortmund Union Brückenbau AG in 1950 .

In addition to his work as an author, Schleicher was also the editor of the specialist body “ Civil engineer . Journal for the entire construction industry ”and other publications.

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  1. Other sources give Aachen as the place of death, but his last activity was in Dortmund.
  2. Michael Jung: Our hearts beat enthusiastically to the Führer. The Technical University of Hanover and its professors under National Socialism. P. 234.