Carl Dolezalek (Railway Engineer)

Karl Dolezalek, 1907, photo by Rudolf Dührkoop

Karl Dolezalek , actually Carl Anton, also Carl Borromäus, (born September 1, 1843 in Marburg an der Drau , † January 24, 1930 in Blankenburg ) was a German railway civil engineer and university professor . From 1877 he taught as a professor for railway and tunnel construction at the Technical University of Hanover and was rector of this university from 1886 to 1892 .

Life

Dolezalek's suggestion: Guided tour of the southern arms with the spiral tunnels at Giornico

Construction train at the Gotthard tunnel (around 1880)

Dolezalek was the son of the Imperial and Royal Finance Guard High Commissioner Vinzenz Dolezalek and Amalie Pringer. He attended grammar school in Graz and then began technical and scientific training at the Vienna University of Technology . In the following ten years he worked in Austria-Hungary in the construction and design of railways.

In 1868 he married Adelheid Anna Frankenberger, daughter of the portrait painter Johann Frankenberger, in Vienna .

In 1871 he became chief engineer on the Hungarian North-East Railway. In 1875 (other sources: 1873) he became a section engineer in Göschenen during the construction of the Gotthard tunnel until autumn 1877 . The conspicuous guidance of the southern arms with the two spiral tunnels at Giornico can be traced back to his suggestion .

In October 1877 he was offered a position at the Technical University of Hanover as professor for railway and tunnel construction. From 1886 to 1892 he was the rector of the university. In 1907 he followed a call to the Technical University of Berlin . His successor in Hanover was Otto Blum .

In Berlin , Dolezalek succeeded Adolf Goering at the chair for railway and tunnel construction . He was active as a university lecturer until he was 85. In addition to his chair, Dolezalek worked as a consultant, expert and mediator in railway engineering issues until his death, with a focus on tunnel construction.

family

With his wife Adelheid Anna Frankenberger he had the son Carl Anton Vincens Dolezalek (1870–1952), civil engineer and professor of steel and steel engineering. Iron construction at the Technical University of Hanover. His son Friedrich Dolezalek (1873-1920) was a physical chemist and a university lecturer in Berlin, among other places.

Awards

• 1889: Appointment to the secret government council .
• 1907: Honorary doctorate in engineering from the Technical University of Hanover
• 1921: Honorary citizen of the Technical University of Berlin
• 1923: Honorary doctorate in engineering from the Technical University of Berlin

Fonts

• Sketches of stone bridges, retaining and lining walls for the lectures of Professor Dolezalek: held at the Königigl. techn. University of Hanover in the academic year 1878/79 , Hanover: Oldemeyer, 1879
• The Gotthard Railway. In: Hannoversche Zeitschrift , 1882.
• Rack railways, light rail vehicles, locomotives and railcars for narrow-gauge, conveyor, tram and rack railways, equipment for small railways and electric railways, cable cars. Kreidel, Wiesbaden 1905. - as reprint : Archiv-Verlag, Braunschweig 2003.
• The railway tunnel. A guide to tunnel construction. (Volume) I. [all that has appeared]. With 422 illustrations in the text and folded on 1. Plate (after p. 96). Berlin u. Wien, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1919. Treats the "mined, but not open-plan tunnel construction to be carried out from the surface" (preface). Part 2 should u. a. Promotion, ventilation, surveying u. Conservation works include.

literature

• CA: † Carl Dolezalek . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 95/96 , no. 7 , February 15, 1930, p. 97 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-43953 .
• Frevert: Privy Councilor Prof. Dr. Dolezalek †. In: Die Bautechnik , Volume 8, Issue 8 (February 21, 1930), p. 119.
• Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hanover 1931, p. 73.
• Walter Sbrezsny:  Dolezalek, Carl Borromäus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 60 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl Dolezalek in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hanover 1931, p. 73.
2. ↑ The NDB names November 1st as the date of birth and Hanover as the place of death.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Walter Sbrezsny:  Dolezalek, Carl Borromäus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 60 ( digitized version ).
4. ^ Hans G. Wägli: Louis Favre (1826–1879), builder of the Gotthard tunnel . In: Swiss pioneers in business and technology , No. 86, 2008, p. 65.
5. ^ Erwin Massute:  Blum, Otto Leonhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 322 ( digitized version ).
6. ↑ Communications. Karl Dolezalek Sr. † . In: Preuss. Ministry of Finance (Ed.): Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . With messages from the Reich and state authorities . 50th year / no. 8, February 26, 1930, pp. 178-179
7. ↑ Dolezalek, Friedrich (PDF; 1.97 MB) In: Conrad Matschoss : Men of Technology. A biographical handbook , ed. on behalf of the Association of German Engineers. Springer, Berlin 1925, p. 58