Arpád Tesár

Arpád Tesár (born February 1, 1919 in Vrútky , † June 15, 1989 in Bratislava ) was a Slovak civil engineer.

Tesar, the son of a railroad worker, studied at the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava and at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg with the degree in 1944. After that he was Ferdinand Schleicher's assistant until 1945 (other teachers were Franz Dischinger , Friedrich Tölke , Arnold Agatz ) . He then worked on the reconstruction in Slovakia in the Ministry of Bridges and Railways in Bratislava (until 1948). After that he was head of the design department of Vitkovice in Bratislava and director of the Hutny project. In 1955 he became head of the design department of the Welding Research Institute in Bratislava, where he dealt with welded pressure vessels and tanks. To this end, he developed new processes that were necessary because instead of high-quality iron ore from Sweden, only that from Ukraine was available. In the 1940s and 1950s, he was involved in a large number of bridges and industrial buildings.

He and the architect Jan Lacko designed the bridge of the Slovak National Uprising in Bratislava, built between 1967 and 1972, an innovative cable-stayed bridge with a tower restaurant.

He was a member of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and received its Aurel Stodola gold medal.

literature

• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 1067f (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9