Arnold Agatz

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Eduard Ernst Georg Arnold Agatz (born August 23, 1891 in Hanover ; † March 27, 1980 in Bremen ) was a German civil engineer for port construction, foundation engineering and port construction director in Bremen. He was a member of many specialist committees and was considered one of the leading German engineers in port construction.

biography

Agatz studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Hanover from 1911 . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Hanover . In the First World War he served as a soldier. In October 1913 he did his military service as a one-year volunteer and was from 1914 as a reserve officer and from 1915 as a lieutenant in a pioneer battalion, where he commanded a floodlight platoon. He received the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class. That is why he did not complete his studies with a diploma until November 1918 and then worked as a private assistant to Otto Franzius at the university. In 1919 he received his doctorate in engineering. and from January to September 1919 was assistant to the director Wilhelm Reisner at the municipal fishery administration in Bremerhaven. From October 1919 he was route manager for the construction of the Berlin subway for Siemens and later the Siemens-Bauunion and from May 1920 to April 1922 senior construction manager for the construction of the double lock in Geestemünde . From December 1922 he was a building officer at the port construction office in Bremen. Here he was active from 1923 in the reinforcement of the Columbuskaje and the construction of the Nordschleuse (1927-1931) and the extension of the Kaiser-Dock II in Bremerhaven .

In 1928 he completed his habilitation in Hanover and became a private lecturer for the economic implementation of hydraulic engineering at the Technical University of Hanover. In 1929 he was a deputy professor for Otto Franzius in Hanover. In 1930 he became the port construction director in Bremerhaven, which he remained until he was called up at the beginning of the war. In 1931 he was appointed full professor for hydraulic engineering and foundation engineering at the Technical University of Berlin and as director of the hydraulic engineering institute. From 1933 to 1939 he was dean of Faculty II for building at the TU Berlin. In 1954 he retired, but was already active as port construction director in Bremen from 1945.

In 1936 he opened the Agatz and Bock engineering office in Berlin and Cologne. From 1938 to 1940 he was involved with his engineering office as an advisor to the Siamese government in the construction of the port of Bangkok , which he continued after the war. During the Second World War he worked for the Navy as part of his engineering office and was an indispensable reserve officer in the Navy. He was one of the leading engineers (construction management was carried out by Erich Lackner from his engineering office) in the construction of the large Valentin submarine bunker near Bremen, carried out by concentration camp inmates . He also directed the construction of large dry docks for the Kriegsmarine in Wilhelmshaven and near Bremen.

From 1945 to 1970 he led the engineering office of Prof. Dr. Agatz in Bremen. From 1945 to 1947 he worked in a leading position for the US Army on the restoration of the ports in Bremen and Bremerhaven. Agatz was president of the port administration in Bremen from 1947 to 1953. In 1954 he retired. After his retirement, Agatz was an advisor to the Senator for Ports, Shipping and Transport in Bremen. In 1970 he was the special commissioner of the Senate for the construction of the Bremerhaven container terminal

The engineering office Prof. Dr. Agatz in Bremen became Dr. Lackner, Dr. Kranz and Barth and Prof. Lackner and Partner and merged with Inros Lackner AG in 2001/2003 . Erich Lackner had already been with Agatz from 1937.

From 1934 to 1964, Agatz was a board member of the Hafenbautechnische Gesellschaft and was one of the founders of the DGGT . From 1958 to 1966 he headed the North and Baltic Sea Coastal Committee.

In 1951 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the TH Hannover and in 1958 an honorary senator of the TU Berlin. In 1961 he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 1962 the Golden Ring of Honor of the Deutsches Museum. In 1954 he became a member of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning .

Works

Agatz and his office designed the following measures, among others:

Fonts

  • The fight of the engineer against earth and water in the foundation. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1936.
  • with Erich Lackner experience with basic structures. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1976.
  • with Lackner sheet pile structures , in Schleicher (editor) Taschenbuch für Bauingenieure, Springer Verlag, Volume 2, 1955, pp. 116–141

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Information in the title of his book The Engineer's Struggle Against Earth and Water in Foundation, Springer 1936. At Stiglat, civil engineers and their work, p. 37 also for port and sea construction.
  3. ^ Catalogus Professorum - TU Berlin. Retrieved August 24, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Denkort Bunker Valentin, p. 7, pdf . After that, as port construction director after the Second World War, he also prevented the planned destruction.
personal data
SURNAME Agatz, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Agatz, Eduard Ernst Georg Arnold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer, port construction director in Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1980
Place of death Bremen