Carl Anton Vincens Dolezalek

Carl Dolezalek (full name Carl Anton Vincens Dolezalek ; born March 28, 1870 in Mediasch in Transylvania , † September 9, 1952 in Wennigsen am Deister ) was a German civil engineer and professor at the Technical University of Hanover .

Life

Carl Anton Vincens Dolezalek was born as the son of the railway and tunnel construction engineer and later university professor in Hanover, Karl Dolezalek . His family moved to Göschenen in Switzerland shortly after the birth of their younger son Friedrich Dolezalek in 1873 . There father Karl Dolezalek worked on the construction of the Gotthard tunnel . In 1877 Karl was appointed professor in Hanover , so that his family came along.

From June 20, 1895 to March 3, 1896, Dolezalek worked as an engineer for the Braunschweig entrepreneur G. Luther, doing the preparatory work for the port facilities in Montevideo .

On May 15, 1897, Dolezalek passed the examination as a government building supervisor . A little later, on August 16 of that year, he began working as an engineer for the “municipal sewerage and waterworks in Hanover”. Only a few weeks later he worked from December 6 of the same year to March 31, 1898 as an assistant for structural engineering for mechanical engineers at the TH Hannover.

Inscription on the three-arch bridge over the Leine in Grasdorf near Laatzen , Hanover region

Carl Anton Vincens Dolezalek made a name for himself internationally as a civil engineer “with the first completely flat concrete bridge ”: Under the director of the municipal sewage and waterworks in Hanover, Anselm Bock , he designed the construction under his construction management by the Holzminden-based company B Liebold built the three-arch bridge over the Leine in Grasdorf .

In 1901 Dolezalek worked on a trial basis as a senior technical clerk at the water, gas and electricity companies. From September 1, 1902, he worked as the urban construction inspector of the waterworks. On November 1, 1904, he took over the duties of a department engineer at the municipal sewer construction office in Wiesbaden . From July 1, 1905, he worked as a lecturer for building design for mechanical engineers and for technical drawing for civil engineers at the Technical University of Hanover .

He was a member of the German Werkbund .

In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges .

From the 1st trimester 1940 to the summer semester 1941 Dolezalek represented the chair for building construction theory and timber construction.

Dolezalek's son Carl Martin Dolezalek became a mechanical engineer and also a university professor.

Honors

On March 28, 1950, Dolezalek was made an honorary citizen of the TH Hannover “in recognition of his many years of service to the Technical University” .

literature

• Paul Trommsdorff : The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Library of the Technical University, Hanover 1931, p. 75.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Paul Trommsdorff (author), Hans Rotermund (new edit.): The teaching staff of the Technical University of Hanover, 1831-1956 (= Catalogus professorum ), ed. from the Technical University of Hanover on the occasion of the 125th anniversary, Hanover: Technical University, 1956, p. 124; Preview over google books
2. ↑ Manfred Overesch: Bosch in Hildesheim 1937 - 1945. Free entrepreneurship and National Socialist armaments policy. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-36754-4 , p. 261.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Paul Séjourné : Grandes voûtes (in French), vol. IV, Tardy-Pigelet, 1913, p. 138; Preview over google books
4. ↑ Inscription on the three-arch bridge in Grastorf
5. ↑ The Spiritualization of German Work. Paths and goals in connection with industry, craft and art (= Yearbook of the German Werkbund. 1912, ZDB -ID 218030-3 ). Diederichs, Jena 1912.