Edmund Gassner

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Edmund Gassner (born March 10, 1908 in Mainz , † March 20, 2004 in Bonn ) was a German town planner and professor of town planning and settlement . Gassner was rector of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

Life

Edmund Gassner was born in 1908 into a well-known family of lawyers in Mainz. After graduating from high school, he studied civil engineering in Mainz with a specialization in urban planning at the Technical University of Darmstadt, today's TU Darmstadt . There he became a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. in 1927. Rheinpfalz in the CV . After graduating in 1933, Edmund Gassner worked for five years as a research assistant at the chair for urban planning, road construction and urban civil engineering in Darmstadt. At home and abroad he worked on projects that were devoted to the social and economic problems of housing supply for the urban and rural industrial population. In 1939 he worked as a planner and site manager in the Ruhr area, then as an assistant in the Reich Office for Spatial Planning (RfR) in Berlin. The RfR emerged from the Reich Office for the Regulation of Land Requirements of the Public Sector under the direction of Reich Minister Hanns Kerrl ; it established the state spatial planning in Germany. 1940 Edmund Gassner was called up for military power and seconded to the General Inspectorate of the German Highway Research of Fritz Todt .

After the Second World War, Gassner worked in the Darmstadt regional council and headed the areas of land-use planning , social housing and district planning . In 1947 he became a lecturer at the Darmstadt State Building School, today's Darmstadt University . At the same time he worked on his dissertation and in 1950 at the Technical University of Darmstadt with the doctor writing studies on economic land development for social housing: a contribution to the promotion of low-rise doctorate .

In 1950 he became an associate professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn and in 1954 a full professor for the newly established chair of urban planning and settlement . At the same time he was appointed director of the Institute for Urban Development, Land Management and Cultural Engineering at the University of Bonn. In 1959/1960 he was dean of the agricultural faculty. In 1966 he became rector and prorector of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. In 1976 he was followed by Klaus Borchard at the chair .

In the 1970s Gassner was significantly involved in the development of the guidelines for the construction of city streets (RAST) .

Gassner has published over 200 papers. He was a member of numerous scientific committees and has received many national and international awards. In 1978 he became a member of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

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SURNAME Gassner, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German urban planner and university rector
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 2004
Place of death Bonn