Artur Bacon

Artur Speck (born June 19, 1877 in Pirna , † January 25, 1960 in Dresden ) was a German road construction engineer in Saxony and Ministerialrat in Dresden.

Life

Speck was a son of Pirna's senior teacher and historian Oskar Speck . During his studies in 1896 he became a member of the Erato Dresden singers . In the 1920s, as ministerial advisor and head of the road construction department in the Saxon Ministry of Finance, he developed concepts for the repair of the 3,600 km network of Saxon state roads. This enabled him to do justice to the emerging motor vehicle traffic. After the First World War, he coined the saying: "A poor people cannot afford the luxury of bad roads."

His construction of intersection-free connections on the "car only roads" (the later highways), known in specialist circles as "bacon rolls", has become known. He broke new ground by developing traffic counting methods as a basis for planning.

Artur Speck received his doctorate in 1907 with the subject "History and theory of suspension bridges". He worked scientifically and in teaching at the Technical University of Dresden , where he became honorary senator in 1928. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1954 by the Technical University of Hanover .

He was a member of the board of the German Road Construction Association for 12 years and took part in international congresses, including a congress in Washington in 1930. He wrote about 70 scientific articles, mainly as contributions to professional journals.

The Artur Speck Prize has been awarded annually by the State Association of Saxony of the VSVI (Association of Road Construction and Transport Engineers) since 2002 .

Fonts

• Artur Speck: Life story of a road builder in the age of the motor vehicle. Told by himself for everyone. Bad Godesberg, Kirschbaum, 1964. SLUB
• Artur Speck: The gap in the Saxon state road network north of Kamenz: e. street store Study around 1830. In: Scientific journal of the Technical University of Dresden; 7 (1957/58), pp. 857-865, SLUB
• Artur Speck: The historical-geographical development of the Saxon road network. In: Scientific publications of the German Institute for Regional Geography; 13 (1953), pp. 131-174 .
• Artur Speck: The construction of artificial roads: a technical-historical study from prehistoric times to today. Berlin: Ernst, 1950. SLUB
• Artur Speck: The Crown Prince Bridge over the Spree Valley in Bautzen: (With 1 plate) , 1910. SLUB
• Artur Speck: Contribution to the history and theory of suspension bridges. Dresden, Techn. Hochschule, Diss., 1908. SLUB and in: Advances in engineering; 18, Leipzig: Engelmann, 1908. SLUB
• Artur Speck: How I got into technology: from d. Memories e. Saxon road builder. In: Der Neue Sachsenspiegel; (1986), pp. 64-80 .
• Artur Speck: The field name "Zuckmantel": e. critical contribution z. Field name research In: Sächsische Heimatblätter; 5, pp. 328-335 (1959). SLUB
• Artur Speck: Report on the 50th foundation festival of the Erato singers at the Technical University of Dresden: 9.-12. June 1911. Dresden: C. Heinrich, 1912. DNB

literature

• Bacon, Artur. In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 920.
• Walter Kirschey: Dr.-Ing., Eh Artur Speck 80 years, a life for the road system: his career a. Life's work. SLUB
• Dr. Artur Speck - a pioneer of German road construction. SLUB
• Michael Feller: Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Artur Bacon. In: Südhang: Dresdner Bezirkjournal 13 (2010), 2, p. 10 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 124.