Ernst Link

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Ernst Link (born June 3, 1873 in Koblenz , † June 25, 1952 in Seehausen am Staffelsee ) was a German hydraulic engineer.

Life

The son of the theology professor and pastor from Koblenz Theodor Georg Anton Link (1831–1896) and Emma Friederike Karoline geb. von Gizycki (1831-1919) attended grammar school in Koblenz. After graduating from high school, he studied construction at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne , the RWTH Aachen University and the Technical University of Hanover . In Aachen he became a member of the Corps Delta. In 1905 he passed the 1st state examination with a major in hydraulic engineering in Hanover, combined with his appointment as government construction manager. He spent the next year with Otto Intze as an assistant at the chair for hydraulic engineering at RWTH Aachen. After practical activities at various hydraulic engineering administrations in northern Germany and the Vistula river administration in Gdansk, he passed the 2nd state examination in 1900, was appointed government master builder and was transferred to the government in Aachen for the dam planning headed by Otto Intze . Initially with the preparatory work and planning of the Ennepetalsperre , Fürwiggetalsperre , Hasper Talsperre , old Hennetalsperre and Oestertalsperre , he managed the construction of the Fürwiggetalsperre from 1902 to 1904.

After brief activities at the new building office for the expansion of the Ruhr ports in Ruhrort and at the Emschergenossenschaft in Essen , he resigned from the civil service in early 1905 and became a senior civil servant and construction director at the Ruhrtalsperrenverein in Essen. According to his suggestion and under his senior construction management, the Möhnetalsperre , where the Linkturm still reminds him today , and the Lister Reservoir were built between 1908 and 1913 . From 1926 to 1935, the Sorpe Reservoir was built , which was then the largest structure in Europe.

With a fundamental work on the cross-section determination of dams, Link became a Dr.-Ing. PhD. The use of artificial trass made from blast furnace slag goes back to him. The good integration into the landscape of the dams, weir and hydropower systems he planned and built was a particular concern of his. He published numerous articles on issues relating to dam construction in specialist literature and the daily press and acted as an expert on dam projects at home and abroad.

Since 1904 he was married to Frida Gros (1881–1972), with whom he had four sons, Harald, Eberhard, Ulrich and Max-Rüdiger. His uncle was the mechanical engineer and rector of RWTH Aachen Adolf von Gizycki .

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Link, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hydraulic engineer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1952
Place of death Seehausen on the Staffelsee