Alfred Teichmann (civil engineer)

Alfred Teichmann (born November 24, 1902 in Cologne ; † September 21, 1971 ) was a German civil engineer , university professor and specialist author .

Life

Alfred Teichmann was the son of the school graduate Albert Teichmann and his wife Julie. From 1911 to 1921 he attended the Kreuzgasse grammar school and then studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt. From 1923/24 to 1926 he was assistant mechanics at Professor Wilhelm Schlink . From 1926 to 1929, Teichmann often took on the role of Professor Karl Thalau at the Technical University of Berlin in Charlottenburg. At the TH Berlin he received his doctorate in 1931 with the dissertation on the calculation of aircraft spars subjected to buckling .

From 1936 onwards, Teichmann worked at the German Aviation Research Institute in Berlin-Adlershof and in 1937 became department head at the Institute for Strength (aircraft statics), where he dealt with flutter calculations and fatigue tests , among other things . Teichmann, who had become an associate professor in 1937, promoted the development of Konrad Zuse's computers in the course of his work at DVL and took part in the demonstration of the Z3 on May 12, 1941. In 1942 he became a member of the German Academy of Aviation Research and in 1944 Full professor at the chair for aircraft construction at the Technical University of Aachen.

After the end of the war, Teichmann became professor for structural engineering at the TU Berlin in 1948 . From 1948 to 1950 he was dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering. In 1969 he retired.

Teichmann is assigned to the "Berlin School" founded by Heinrich Müller-Breslau in structural engineering. His lectures enjoyed a good reputation. His three-volume work "Statics of Building Structures" was considered to be groundbreaking.

literature

• Structural engineering and aircraft construction - stages in the life of Alfred Teichmann (1902–1971) , by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Knothe , Stahlbau , Volume 74, Issue 5, May 2005
• Konrad Zuse and Structural Analysis - On the Prehistory of Computer Structural Analysis , by Dr.-Ing. Karl-Eugen Kurrer ; Bautechnik , Volume 87, Issue 11, November 2010
• Karl-Eugen Kurrer: The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Berlin: Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 116f., P. 119f., 535ff. and p. 1088 (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .

Works

• For the calculation of the aircraft spars stressed by buckling , dissertation
• Aircraft statics tasks , co-author
• Statics of building structures , 3 volumes

Web links

• Presentation by Prof. Klaus Knothe on the part of the Institute for Aerospace at TU Berlin