Erwin Marquardt (hydraulic engineer)

Erwin Marquardt in the color of the Alemannia Stuttgart fraternity

Erwin Marquardt (born February 18, 1889 in Balingen ; † July 21, 1955 in Bad Cannstatt ) was a German professor of hydraulic engineering . Some of today's water supply facilities in southern Germany go back to him.

Life

Marquardt studied civil engineering from 1907 to 1911 at the TH Stuttgart and the TH Danzig . Among his teachers and role models were Otto Lueger , Adolf Thiem , Josef Tillmans , Otto Intze , Otto Konz and Robert Weyrauch . He wrote his doctoral thesis at Konz . During his studies he became a member of the Alemannia Stuttgart fraternity in 1907 . After the second state examination, he was employed as a town planning officer in Brüx (Northern Bohemia). Here he was the head of planning and construction of the Brüx dam , which was designed by Weyrauch at the Technical University of Stuttgart. He later became a government building officer in the Ministry of the Interior of the State of Württemberg .

During the First World War in May 1915, Marquardt was seriously injured in the foot. The refusal to amputate the foot repeatedly led to severe discomfort for the rest of his life.

In 1925 he became head of the design and new construction department of the municipal water supply in Munich. His task was to expand the water supply in the growing city. In 1931 he was appointed senior building officer, and in 1934 he was finally head of Munich's municipal water supply.

Marquardt tried for a long time to be appointed to a chair at universities in Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Dresden and Hanover. In 1938 he was finally appointed to the Technical University of Charlottenburg , where he held the chair for municipal technology.

During the Second World War , Marquardt lost his only son, and in 1943 his apartment with an extensive library and many manuscripts ready for printing burned down completely. This prompted him to return to his southern German homeland.

In 1946 he became head of department for water management in the interior ministry of the French-occupied Württemberg-Hohenzollern , in 1947 he became head of department for water management in the bizone (Frankfurt / Main). In 1949 Marquardt was appointed to the chair for hydraulic engineering and water management at the Technical University of Stuttgart .

In the last years of his life he designed the Lake Constance water supply , the completion of which he could no longer see.

In 1928/29 the Swiss federal government commissioned Marquardt to provide an expert opinion on hydraulic engineering on the Rhine and Lake Constance . In 1930 the USSR requested an expert report on reinforced concrete pipelines. In 1954/55 he went on an advisory trip to the governments of Iran and Mexico . He was unable to travel to Sudan because of the illness that would eventually lead to his death.

Works

• The water supply of the royal city of Brüx in Böhmen , Vienna 1918
• The methods of river engineering , Berlin 1922
• The execution of concrete, reinforced concrete and stoneware pipelines , Berlin 1935
• The treatment of industrial wastewater , Berlin-Charlottenburg 1948

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (April 20, 1954)

literature

• Wilhelm Bader, Franz Pöpel: Obituaries for Erwin Marquardt , in: In memory of Erwin Marquardt, Otto Graf, Karl Deininger, Alfred Widmaier, Helmut Göring, speeches and essays of the TH Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1957.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: The methods of river building .
2. ↑ Willy Nolte : Fraternity members regular role. Berlin 1934, p. 313.
3. ↑ Office of the Federal President