Eduard Reisch

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Eduard Reisch (born July 19, 1961 ) is a German demolition expert from Apfeldorf in Bavaria. In February 2014 he was responsible for the AfE tower, the highest building demolition in Europe to date.

Live and act

The AfE tower was blown up in 2014

Reisch is one of the most experienced blasting technicians in Germany, especially when it comes to underwater blasting. His first blasting work was in the mid-1980s, splitting up a five cubic meter rock that had rolled down from a mountain in the Allgäu between two hotel complexes.

In March 1995 the demolition of a pond near the Andechs monastery caused a stir. A meteorite impact was initially assumed for the resulting crater. The police only found out about the report of the demolition one day after the demolition, because the responsible district office in Starnberg did not forward it. The event led to intensive worldwide press coverage. It earned Reisch the nickname Krater-Edi .

In October 2002 Reisch was sentenced to six months probation before the Hamburg district court. He was accused of negligently responsible for the death of two colleagues in early December 2001. At that time he had the task of blowing up a boiler house of the HEW heating and power plant in Hamburg. During the preparatory work, the welds opened and the building overturned.

In addition, Reisch blew up the Danube bridge in Leipheim in 1999 , the 108 meter high Hemmingen transmitter in 2006 , the Agfa tower in Munich in 2008 , the 150 meter high chimney of the sugar factory in Regensburg in 2009 and the pillar of the Haseltal bridge near Aschaffenburg in 2010 .

On February 2, 2014, Reisch was responsible for the highest building demolition in Europe to date. With 950 kilos of explosives, distributed in 1400 boreholes, he blew up the 116 meter high AfE tower of the University of Frankfurt in a controlled manner . In doing so, he first let the facade fall vertically to the ground, only to fold the massive building core into one another seconds later. Since the building could not overturn due to the densely built-up area, this complicated variant had to be chosen. The demolition itself went flawlessly, Reisch himself spoke of a "picture book demolition" at a subsequent press conference. It was watched by 30,000 onlookers and broadcast live on several television channels.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "License to blow up" article from 'süddeutsche.de' from February 1, 2014
  2. ↑ Andreas Fasel: Eduard Reisch blows up the Bonn Center - WORLD. Retrieved March 20, 2017 .
  3. ^ "The meteorite fairy tale of Andechs" article in Münchner Merkur from March 4, 2010
  4. ^ Sprengmeister condemns article in the Hamburger Abendblatt from October 8, 2002
  5. ↑ http://www.fr-online.de/stadtentwicklung/26042926,26042926.html ( Memento from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Sprengung-Spezial collection of articles from the Frankfurter Rundschau
personal data
SURNAME Reisch, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German demolition technician
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1961