Carl Pirath
Carl Pirath (born May 10, 1884 in Hellenthal in the Eifel ; † January 23, 1955 in Stuttgart ) was a German transport scientist and from 1926 professor for railways and transport at the Technical University of Stuttgart. His scientific focal points include air traffic and the transport industry .
Career
Carl Pirath studied civil engineering from 1902 to 1907 at the TH Hannover , where he became a member of the Corps Ostfalia , and the TU Danzig . After graduating, he was taken over by the Prussian State Railways and employed in the railway departments of Cologne , Breslau and Münster . From 1919 he worked in the Reich Ministry of Transport . In 1921 he was awarded a Dr.-Ing. doctorate, the title of his dissertation was "Proportion of human work performance in the performance of means of transport". In 1923 he was finally appointed to the board of the Hanover Railway Operations Office.
The Technical University of Stuttgart appointed Pirath in 1926 as full professor for railways and transport. As a young professor, at a time when only the railroad and waterways were in focus, he took up the overall problem of the transport industry. He saw that the dynamics in the traffic system, brought about by the motorization of road traffic , the development of air traffic and the installation of all kinds of lines required new forms of traffic. Pirath did not, as was customary at the time, deal with one mode of transport after the other for itself, but developed a comparative consideration of all modes of transport .
In 1929 he founded the Transport Science Institute for Aviation at the TH Stuttgart, whose director he was until 1945 and again from 1950 to 1955.
Pirath died on January 23, 1955 as a result of a traffic accident.
The Carl Pirath Prize of the German Transport Science Society, first awarded in 1983, for outstanding German-language work by young scientists and the Carl Pirath Research Grant from the Transport Science Institute at the University of Stuttgart are named after him.
activities
In addition to the book Fundamentals of Transport Economics published in 1934, the name Carl Pirath is associated with 14 research booklets from the (today's) Transport Science Institute in Stuttgart. These deal in particular with the area of air traffic, u. a.
- Determination of the probable strength of the traffic flows in world air traffic (1929)
- Proposals for the design of the world air transport network according to operational and economic aspects (1930)
- Airports and their design, location and operational management
Individual evidence
- ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. Darmstadt 1928, p. 177.
- ↑ a b Homepage of the VWI
literature
- Gregor Brand: Carl Pirath - traffic scientist from Hellenthal. In: Gregor Brand: Children of the Eifel - from another time II. Ed .: Hermann Simon. BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2018, ISBN 978-3-7528-3084-2 , pp. 347-348.
- Gerhard Heimerl: Pirath, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 473 ( digitized version ).
- Carl Pirath , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 13/1955 from March 21, 1955, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Pirath in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pirath, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German transport scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hellenthal in the Eifel |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1955 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |