Eberhard Franke

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Eberhard Franke (* 1929 in Freiberg ; † January 21, 2011 ) was a German civil engineer for foundation engineering and soil mechanics, professor at the TH Darmstadt .

Franke studied at the TH Dresden and received his doctorate there with a dissertation on hydrodynamics . He then worked for two years at VEB Ingenieur-Tiefbau Brandenburg, from 1959 research assistant at the Research Institute for Shipping, Hydraulic Engineering and Foundation Engineering in East Berlin and from 1961 lecturer in soil mechanics at the TH Dresden. Before taking up the position of lecturer, he fled with his wife to the West and went to Strabag in Cologne, where he worked in underground construction. In 1965 he went to the Federal Institute for Hydraulic Engineering (BAW) as a research assistant in Karlsruhe , where he worked with Davidenkoff, among others, on groundwater problems (in addition to being an expert for the BAW). In 1967 he took over the earthworks and foundation engineering department of the BAW coastal branch in Hamburg . His projects there included the Elbe Lateral Canal (and the investigation of damage when it broke), the Eider Barrage and the first larger German offshore platform, the North Sea . In 1981 he succeeded Herbert Breth as professor at the TH Darmstadt and head of the research institute for geotechnics, which he led until 1992. In 2011 he committed suicide with his wife.

In Darmstadt, he mainly researched the load-bearing behavior of piles and pile groups.

In addition, from 1981 he was a partner in the engineering office building ground institute Franke und Meißner (BFM von Meißner founded in 1970) in Wiesbaden.

He was a member of the DGGT working committee on piles and was its chairman for many years. He was also on the working committee for river dikes and experiments and experimental equipment.

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literature

  • Bernd Schuppener, Obituary in Geotechnics, Volume 34, No. 2, 2011, pp. 158–160

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the engineering office Franke und Meißner
personal data
SURNAME Franke, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer for foundation engineering and soil mechanics
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2011