Edgar Schultze

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Edgar Schultze (born November 1, 1905 in Hamburg ; † May 6, 1986 in Aachen ) was a German civil engineer for foundation engineering and soil mechanics and professor at RWTH Aachen University .

Life

The son of pastor Edgar Schultze from Hamburg studied at the universities in Munich, Vienna and finally in Berlin, where he passed the diploma exam in 1929. After working as a government building manager in Hamburg, Frankfurt and Berlin , he received his doctorate in 1934 at the Technical University of Berlin under Arnold Agatz with the dissertation: The non-periodic influences on the tides of the Elbe near Hamburg: An application of the correlation calculation to the determination of the high and low water levels of a tidal river . After his habilitation in 1936, he first became a research assistant and in 1943 an extraordinary professor.

As a full professor, he built up soil mechanics research at RWTH Aachen University from 1949 and was appointed director of the Institute for Waterways Engineering, Foundation Engineering and Soil Mechanics (VGB).

Schultze dealt, for example, with the soil mechanical behavior of sands and silts , settlement observations and permissible settlement for buildings (civil engineer 1957), shallow foundations, ground failure, slope stability (which he had dealt with, among other things, in the context of open-cast lignite mining), sheet piling and wrote with Heinz Muhs a monograph on soil investigation methods. He also dealt with foundation damage to historical buildings - for a long time he was an appraiser for the Leaning Tower of Pisa. From the 1970s he also dealt with statistics in foundation engineering.

In 1936, Schultze worked on Arnold Agatz's book The Engineer's Struggle against Earth and Water in Foundation Engineering . In 1977 the TU Hannover awarded him an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Construction. In 1968 he and many other professors from RWTH Aachen University were among the signatories of the “ Marburg Manifesto ”, which formed an academic front against the emerging co-determination at universities.

His successor at RWTH Aachen was Walter Wittke from 1974 .

Fonts

  • Together with Heinz Muhs: Soil investigations for civil engineering , Springer, 1950, 1967
  • Earth static calculations , reports from the Institute for Hydraulic Engineering, Foundation Engineering and Soil Mechanics of the Technical University of Aachen, Volume 40, 1967
  • Outline of the earth statics , Mitt.VGB 1973
  • Soil mechanical problems of sand , Mitteilungen VGB, Volume 50, 1970
  • Stability of embankments , Grundbau-Taschenbuch 1982
  • Stability of foundation structures and pressure distribution and subsidence , Grundbau-Taschenbuch 1966
  • Leaning Towers , Construction Site Conference Hamburg 1968, p. 1 (and Die Standsicherheit schiefer Türme , Mitt.VGB, No. 47, 1969)
  • Preservation and restoration of architectural monuments: Building ground and foundations , Mitt.VGB, No. 53, 1971

literature

  • Hydraulic engineering, foundation engineering and soil mechanics. Contributions from theory and Practice. Published on the occasion of Edgar Schultze's 65th birthday , VGB, Aachen 1970

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Who's who in Germany, Intercontinental Book and Publishing Company, 1974
  2. ↑ Wording and list of signatures of the manifesto against the politicization of universities ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Blätter für German and international politics , born in 1968; Issue 8 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dearchiv.de
  3. ^ Marburg Manifesto , in: Der Spiegel of July 22, 1968
  1. ↑ His predecessor Hermann Proetel (term of office 1922 to 1949) mainly dealt with hydraulic engineering.
personal data
SURNAME Schultze, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1986
Place of death Aachen