Curt Risch
Curt Risch (born March 29, 1879 in Berlin , † October 17, 1959 in Hanover ; full name: Franz Paul Curt Risch ) was a German railway engineer and university professor .
Life
From 1902, Risch completed a legal clerkship in the Prussian civil service as a government construction manager in the field of railway construction and, with interruptions, was a part-time structural engineer for the new building of the Royal Library in Berlin from October 1904 to April 1912 . On December 21, 1907 he was appointed government builder ( Assessor ). In 1916 he received his doctorate in Braunschweig as Dr.-Ing.
From 1908 Curt Risch was employed by the Berlin Railway Directorate, where he was concerned with drafts for the layout of the Berlin railway systems. From March 1910, he took over the management of station conversions. On September 15, 1911, he became the head of the construction department for the preparatory work for the eastern part of Berlin's southern bypass.
After participating in the First World War (1915 to 1918), he was employed in operations at the Berlin Railway Directorate from December 1918. On April 1, 1919, he took over the management of the Minden Railway Operations Office . On April 15, 1919, he became a full professor of railway engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig , where he was also rector from August 1923 to January 1925 . In October 1924 he became a full professor for railway construction and railway operation at the Technical University of Hanover . His teaching area also included traffic sciences as well as earthworks, roads and tunnel construction. On April 1, 1927, Risch became head of the research center he founded for the dynamic effects of road traffic. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .
The "Curt Risch Institute for Dynamics, Sound and Measurement Technology" named after him was merged with the "Institute for Statics" to form the new "Institute for Statics and Dynamics" (ISD) of the University of Hanover on January 15, 2005. Since 1946 he was a full member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society .
Fonts (selection)
- Larger transhipment facilities for general cargo transport. A theoretical study from the traffic engineering and economic point of view. Moeser, Berlin 1916, OCLC 258119224 .
- Transport and operational issues. Wolfenbütteler Verlagsanst, Wolfenbüttel 1947, OCLC 73689062 .
- with Friedrich Lademann : Local public transport. Springer, Berlin, Göttingen, Heidelberg 1957, OCLC 64352371 .
literature
- Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hanover 1931, p. 78.
Web links
- Literature by and about Curt Risch in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ The history of the ISD on isd.uni-hannover.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Risch, Curt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Risch, Franz Paul Curt (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German railway engineer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th October 1959 |
| Place of death | Hanover |