Ernst Gaber (civil engineer)

Ernst Gaber (born April 12, 1881 Mannheim ; † October 25, 1952 Heidelberg ) was a German civil engineer and university professor .

Life

Test press

Gaber was the son of master carpenter Adam Gaber. In 1909 he married Erna Ottilie Killinger (born April 12, 1889), daughter of the secret government councilor Emil Killinger . During his studies Gaber became a member of the Karlsruhe fraternity of Tulla . After his doctorate as Dr.-Ing. in 1913 on the subject of the construction and calculation of arched bridges and their falsework with Friedrich Engesser , he accepted a position at the Technical University of Karlsruhe in 1921 . Here he took over the construction of a test room to carry out experimental investigations. This test room laid the foundation for the research institute for steel, wood and stones , which celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2011. At the end of the 1930s, the so-called "Gaber Tower" was built on the grounds of the Technical University of Karlsruhe, in which the then largest standing dynamic testing machine in the world with a maximum load of 5,000 t was installed.

His successor in office was Otto Steinhardt in 1949 .

Fonts

The Geultal Bridge near Aachen. In: Verkehrstechnik , Volume 2, Issue 25 (September 5, 1921), pp. 379–382.

literature

Walter Sbrzesny: Gaber, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 5 ( digitized version ).
90 years of steel construction at the research institute in Karlsruhe. In: Der Stahlbau , ISSN 0038-9145 , 80th year 2011, issue 8, pp. 554-560.

Individual evidence

↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 135.

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personal data
SURNAME	Gaber, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German civil engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 12, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH	October 25, 1952
Place of death	Heidelberg

[1] Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 135.