Ferdinand Zunker

Ferdinand Friedrich Helmut Zunker (born December 29, 1886 in Baumgarten , Dramburg district , † April 2, 1956 in Dresden ) was a German professor of water management.

Life

Ferdinand Zunker's grave at the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden

Ferdinand Zunker came from Pomerania . After graduating from high school in 1906, the following year he began studying water management and soil science at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg , graduating with a diploma in 1913. He then worked briefly as an engineer for iron construction at the Berlin company Bretschneider und Krüger.

From 1913 to 1918 Zunker was government site manager for water and road construction, passed his state examination in 1918 and was then employed by the water construction authorities in Fürstenwalde / Spree , Wittenberge / Elbe and the amelioration authorities in Charlottenburg and Breslau .

In 1920 he received his doctorate on the subject of the temperature measurement method for determining the seepage water losses from sewers at his alma mater in Berlin and was then a government builder. From 1919 to 1922 Zunker was an assistant and lecturer at the Agricultural University in Berlin .

In 1922 he went to the University of Breslau as a lecturer and from 1923 to 1945 he was a full professor of cultural engineering at the building faculty institute of the same name there. During this time he wrote about 200 publications with a focus on agricultural hydraulic engineering, general water management and soil science.

After the end of the war, Zunker went to Dresden and in 1946 became a full professor for soil and water management at the Technical University there and was director of the institute of the same name. Among the difficult nutritional problems of the post-war period, his research into increasing higher yields per hectare through large-scale agricultural wastewater utilization was of particular importance. In 1953 the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Zunker died in 1956 and was buried in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden .

Works (selection)

• 1920: The temperature measurement method for determining the seepage water losses from sewers. (Diss.)
• 1930: The behavior of water in relation to the ground.
• 1949: The necessity and implementation of the recycling of organic waste water in agriculture.

literature

• Zunker, Ferdinand. In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 1088.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ferdinand Zunker in the catalog of the German National Library