Erich Giese (engineer)

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Friedrich Julius Erich Giese (born March 3, 1876 in Küstrin , † after 1945 ) was a German transport scientist and university professor .

Life

Giese studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Charlottenburg from 1895 to 1899 and, after passing the 1st state examination, began a legal clerkship as a government building manager . After only two years he passed the 2nd state examination in 1901 and was appointed government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration). During his studies he became a member of the Academic Association Motiv , as a prizewinner of the Schinkel competition in 1901 (for his design of a connection between the Rhine-Nahe-Bahn and the right bank of the Rhine near Rüdesheim ) he undertook a study trip to America, Japan, with the help of the prize money in 1903/1904 and India. From there he brought back valuable works of art.

From 1907 to 1911 he worked as a railway and operations inspector and as a department head at the Royal Railway Directorate in Berlin . After working as an assistant at the Technical University of Charlottenburg from 1904 to 1911, he was appointed full professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1911 . In 1916 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden as Dr.-Ing.

In 1919 he became the transport director of the Greater Berlin Association , which had existed since 1912 and aimed at the municipal association of Berlin with cities and communities in the immediate vicinity to form the city of Greater Berlin with 3.8 million inhabitants, which was achieved in 1920. In 1920 he took over an honorary professorship for urban transport in the field of railway construction and operation at the Technical University of Berlin, where he played a major role in overcoming urban traffic problems until 1945.

He was a member of the Prussian Academy of Civil Engineering in Berlin and the German Academy for Urban Development, Reich and State Planning and, from 1921, editor of the magazine Verkehrstechnik , which acted as the central journal for the entire land, water and air transport system .

Fonts

  • with Otto Blum : How do we develop our colonies? Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1907.
  • The travel speeds of rapid transit trains, trams and high-speed trams. A study for global cities, especially for Greater Berlin. (Dissertation) W. Moeser, Berlin 1916.
  • Express trams . A study of the facility, stops, maximum and travel speeds, with special consideration of the conditions in Greater Berlin. W. Moeser, Berlin 1917.
  • The future rapid transit network for Greater Berlin. W. Moeser, Berlin 1919.
  • Road breakthroughs as a means of solving the Berlin traffic problem. Verlag der Verkehrstechnik, Berlin 1925.
  • with Otto Blum and Kurt Risch: Lines. (= Reference library for civil engineers , Part II of Railway Engineering and Urban Development , Volume 2.) Julius Springer, Berlin 1925.
  • with H. Paetsch: Police and Traffic. (= The Police in Individual Representations , Volume 6 I The Metropolitan Transport System , Part II The Traffic Police .) Gersbach & Sohn, Berlin 1926.
  • Rail or waterway funding? On the question of German canal policy. A reply. Verlag der Verkehrstechnik, Berlin 1927.
  • Considerations about the profitability and the fare of urban transport companies. (Reprint from Verkehrstechnik , year 1928, No. 38a.) Ullstein, Berlin 1928.
  • The Rheinisch-Westfälische Stadtebahn Cologne – Dortmund. On the question of their profitability. Verlag der Verkehrstechnik, Berlin 1928.
  • The profitability of cross-country passenger transport (buses and trains). Verlag der Verkehrstechnik, Berlin 1930.
  • with KA Müller: Verkehrstechnik. Ullstein, Berlin 1934.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 31.
  2. ^ Draft for a connection between the Rhein-Nahe-Bahn and the Rheinische Eisenbahn near Rüdesheim by Erich Giese in the holdings of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin
  3. ↑ Road breakthroughs according to the Giese plan (1925) on luise-berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Giese, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giese, Friedrich Julius Erich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German transport scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Küstrin
DATE OF DEATH after 1945