Emanuel Geering
Bernhard Emanuel Geering (born June 18, 1896 ; † June 30, 1977 ; hometown Basel ) was a Swiss civil engineer .
Geering received his civil engineering diploma from the ETH Zurich . From 1919 to 1925 he worked “as a project engineer for power plants and buildings in Switzerland and the USA and then until 1936 as a professor for reinforced concrete construction at the Royal School of Engineering, which later became Fouad University in Gizeh, Egypt. Since his return to Switzerland, he has worked as a consulting engineer with his own office in Basel. "( Sda , 1976)
In 1942 he helped build the "Basel Hall of the Swiss Sample Fair ".
Together with Arnold Gfeller and Hans Mähly , he built the first residential high-rise buildings in Switzerland in Basel in 1950/51 (buildings by the Entenweid cooperative).
Geering was a member of the Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects . and lived in Riehen .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Obituary in the Swiss construction newspaper: Wochenschrift für Architektur, Ingenieurwesen, Maschinentechnik , Volume 95, 1977, p. 548.
- ↑ a b c Swiss dispatch agency : “Emanuel Geering 80 years old.” Article in a Swiss newspaper (probably BaZ ), June 1976.
- ↑ http://www.medienmitteilungen.bs.ch/fuehrungen_2013_abend_web.pdf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geering, Emanuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Geering, Bernhard Emanuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1896 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1977 |