Erich Schild

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Erich Walter Schild (born November 30, 1917 in Krefeld ; † April 10, 1998 ) was a German architect and professor at RWTH Aachen University , specializing in building construction , building physics and building damage issues , and author of numerous specialist publications.

Life

As the son of the architect Karl Schild († 1940) and his wife Bertha, b. Born Le Clerc in Krefeld, Erich Schild also attended the upper secondary school there , which he left when he passed his school- leaving examination in 1937. After completing his military service in the recently re-militarized Rhineland began even before the outbreak of the Second World War, a study of architecture at the RWTH Aachen , however, this had to stop the war began. Used as a soldier until the end of the war, largely as an officer on the Eastern Front , he was finally taken prisoner by the Soviets . After his return in 1948, Erich Schild resumed his interrupted architecture studies in Aachen; In 1952 he completed this with the main diploma examination.

Erich Schild initially worked as a research assistant, and from February 1, 1957 as chief engineer at the Faculty of Architecture at RWTH Aachen University. At the same time he worked as an architect and freelancer in the architecture office of Professor Rudolf Steinbach from Aachen . On October 1, 1957 he received his doctorate with the dissertation The estate of the architect Hittorff . as a doctoral engineer , his doctoral supervisor was Steinbach, co-referee Wolfgang Braunfels . In 1964 he completed his habilitation at RWTH Aachen University (cf. publications) and from 1969 he held a position as a scientific consultant and professor at the chair for building construction III - building physics and building damage issues. In 1974 he was given a full professorship, which he held until his retirement in 1983. Even after his retirement, he and his wife Ingeborg , whom he married in 1954, continued to run the Aachen architecture office.

Erich Schild found his final resting place on the Campo Santo of Aachen's Westfriedhof .

Fonts (selection)

  • The estate of the architect Hittorff. Dissertation. RWTH Aachen, Aachen 1957.
  • Problems of the construction and form of 19th century architecture in England and France. Shown on the materials iron, glass and concrete. Habilitation thesis. RWTH Aachen, Aachen 1964.
  • Between the glass palace and the “palais des illusions”. Form and construction in the 19th century. 2nd Edition. Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-18620-8 .
  • with Rainer Pohlenz, Hans-F. Casselmann, Günter Dahmen: Building Physics: Planning and Application. 4th edition. Vieweg + Teubner Verlag, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-528-38662-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d The estate of the architect Hittorff.
  2. ↑ RWTH Aachen. Faculty of Architecture. Deceased professors. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  3. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. Volume 3: S-Z. 16th edition. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1992, ISBN 3-11-011754-1 , p. 3194.
  4. ↑ Entry on billiongraves.com
personal data
SURNAME Shield, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schild, Erich Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, building physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1998