Alfred Streck

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Alfred Heinrich Streck (born August 31, 1896 in Coburg ; † unknown, after 1972) was a German civil engineer for foundation engineering and soil mechanics, professor at the Technical University of Hanover .

Life

Streck, whose father was station master in Coburg, studied after participating as a lieutenant in the First World War at the TH Darmstadt (diploma 1921) and received his doctorate in 1925 at the TH Hannover ( contributions to the question of earth resistance ). In 1927 Otto Franzius founded the Hanover Research Institute for Foundation Engineering and Hydraulic Engineering (which was called the Franzius Institute after Franzius' death in 1936 ) , where Streck was also responsible for soil mechanics, on which he had lectured in Hanover since 1932. Until his retirement in 1963, he was professor of soil mechanics, weir and dam construction at the TU Hannover. His successor in Hanover was Erich Lackner . Streck developed calculation methods for earth resistance coefficients with broken sliding surfaces.

Alfred Blinde , later professor in Karlsruhe, and Anton Weißenbach were among his students . The latter further developed Streck's approach for the calculation of earth resistance with the aim of developing design approaches for pile pile walls. The need for this arose from Weißenbach's work in Hamburg's subway construction at the end of the 1950s. The necessary tests were carried out under Strecks supervision. Other students were his assistants Heinz Jagau (doctorate 1955), founder of an engineering office for geotechnical engineering in Bremen, Karl Steinfeld (doctorate 1952), who founded the engineering office Steinfeld und Partner in Hamburg in 1961, and Josef Schmidbauer (head of a large engineering offices in Essen (ELE), which was originally founded by Hans Leussink ) as well as Werner Meihorst (owner of an engineering office in Hanover), Herbert Wagner (tunnel specialist), Wilfried Krabbe (board member at Philipp Holzmann ), Helmut Nendza (successor to Schmidbauer as head of his Engineering office), Walter Wittke (who did his diploma in Hanover).

Yield was referee for the settling pond at the iron ore mine Lengede whose breaking 1963 mine disaster resulted.

Fonts

  • A contribution to the question of passive earth pressure , Der Bauingenieur, 7th year, 1926, Issue 1, pp. 1-3
  • Earth pressure and earth resistance. In: Grundbau-Taschenbuch . 1955, 2nd edition 1966.
  • 23 years of building ground research in the Hanover Research Institute for Foundation Engineering and Hydraulic Engineering. In: Communications from the Hanover Research Institute for Foundation Engineering and Hydraulic Engineering. Issue 5. Hannover 1954.

literature

  • Victor Rizkallah (Ed.): Contributions to soil mechanics and foundation. Collective publication on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Prof. Alfred Streck. Hanover 1972.
  • Victor Rizkallah 150 years foundation and hydraulic engineering in Hanover. Geotechnics special issue 1985 (Milestones in German Geotechnics).

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Der Bauingenieur, Volume 7, 1926, pp. 1, 32
  2. ↑ More precisely, an institute for foundation engineering and hydraulic engineering he founded had existed since his appointment as professor in Hanover in 1914.
  3. ↑ Reint de Boer The engineer and the scandal , Springer 2005, p. 167
  4. ↑ that means from several straight lines which approximate a logarithmic spiral
  5. ^ Weissenbach in the Festschrift for Streck
  6. ↑ 1970 honorary professor in Hanover
  7. ^ Hole in the apron , Der Spiegel, November 20, 1963
personal data
SURNAME Streck, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Streck, Alfred Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer for foundation engineering and soil mechanics
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century