Burkhart Rümelin
Burkhart Rümelin (born July 19, 1916 in Berlin ; † November 9, 2012 ) was a German engineer in the field of water management .
Life
Theodor Rümelin's son graduated from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1935 . In 1939 he made his diploma in civil engineering at the Technical University of Munich and in 1942 the great state examination for the higher technical administration service. He was an officer of the artillery in World War II . Then he did an apprenticeship as a carpenter .
In 1950 he was accepted into the civil service, he had tasks in the hydraulic engineering in Bamberg, Nuremberg, Passau and Regensburg. From 1965 he took over the management of the water and shipping office in Frankfurt am Main . In 1969 he became ministerial director for water and shipping administration in the Federal Ministry of Transport in Bonn. From 1975 he was a full board member of Rhein-Main-Donau AG .
The Technical University of Munich gave Rümelin on 7 November 1979, the doctorate (PhD engineering honors sake) Dr.-Ing. E. h.
Special participation
- Elbe Lateral Canal with Uelzen lock (23 m lifting height) and Scharnebeck ship lift (38 m lifting height)
- Main-Danube Canal
- Eider barrage
- Binger Loch route: revision of the previously planned 3rd opening
Participation in associations
- Port construction company
- Central Association for German Inland Shipping e. V., Minden
- Deutscher Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsverein Rhein-Main-Donau e. V., Nuremberg
- Association of German Electricity Works V. (VDEW), Frankfurt am Main
- Association of German Engineers
Publications
- B. Rümelin et al .: Rivers and Canals - The History of German Waterways in 2 Volumes, edited by Martin Eckoldt. Hamburg 1998, DSV-Verlag. ISBN 3-88412-243-6 and 3-88412-286-X
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
- ^ Annual report on the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1934/35
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- Jürgen Giesecke, WaWi WasserWirtschaft 9/2006
- Dr. Kaspar Dütemeyer, 100 Years of the Association for Safeguarding Rhine Shipping Interests e. V., Binnenschiffahrts-Verlag GmbH, Duisburg -Ruhrort 1977
Web links
- TU Munich press office
- Homepage Honorary Doctors of the Technical University of Munich
- Chronicle of the energy industry
- Homepage Scharnebeck ship lift ( Memento from March 1, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
- Uelzen lock project ( Memento from May 15, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- Pedigree, see serial no.13.45 ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rümelin, Burkhart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 2012 |