Alfred Scheidig

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Alfred Scheidig (* before 1905, † after 1948) was a German geotechnical engineer .

Scheidig received his diploma in 1926 at the Freiberg Mining Academy (The distribution of vertical pressures in pouring, a contribution to the statics of the soil). There he was a student of Franz Kögler and his assistant in his earthworks laboratory, which was founded in 1928, and he was co-author of his standard work at the time, Construction Ground and Building (first in 1938). The investigations presented there on pressure distribution due to building loads in the subsoil appeared in the journal Bautechnik between 1927 and 1929. Scheidig visited Karl von Terzaghi's earthworks laboratory in Vienna in 1931 , who then promoted him. The relationship clouded over when Terzaghi was dissatisfied with the English translation of his book with Otto Karl Fröhlich about the consolidation of Ton (it was too literal for him, Scheidig could not speak English well enough at the time). The English edition never appeared, and parts were later incorporated into his book Theoretical Soil Mechanics by Terzaghi. Scheidig was later a government master builder in Naumburg an der Saale . The institute in Freiberg, at which he had previously been, was closed in 1939 after Kögler's suicide and attached to the TU Dresden (under the direction of Terzaghi student Walter Bernatzik ).

He wrote the first comprehensive treatise on the geotechnical properties of loess . The book also dealt with geological and other aspects of loess and the included world map of loess distribution was long the standard map of loess distribution, which Paul Woldstedt also used in his book on the Quaternary. An English translation was published by the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1946.

Fonts

  • with Kögler: building site and building, Berlin: Ernst, 5th edition 1948
  • Loess and its geotechnical properties, Dresden: Steinkopff 1934

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He edited the 5th edition of Kögler / Scheidig, published in 1948
  2. ↑ According to the entry in the book, he was Dr. ing. habil., lecturer in Freiberg and government architect
  3. ↑ Reint de Boer, The Engineer and the Scandal, Springer 2005, p. 167
  4. ^ State archive Saxony-Anhalt
  5. ↑ Place of residence in patent application 1942, see Civil Engineer, Volume 23, 1942, Issue 14/16, p. 114
  6. ↑ Ian Smalley's blog on Loess 2013
personal data
SURNAME Scheidig, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geotechnical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1905
DATE OF DEATH after 1948