Research institute for shipping, hydraulic engineering and foundation engineering
| Research Institute for Shipping, Hydraulic Engineering and Foundation Engineering (FAS) | |
|---|---|
| Category: | research Institute |
| Carrier: | German Democratic Republic |
| Consist: | 1945–1990 |
| Facility location: | Berlin-Stralau |
| Branch offices: | Berlin-Karlshorst , Potsdam-Marquardt |
| Arose from: | Prussian research institute for hydraulic engineering, earthworks and shipbuilding |
| Absorbed in: | Federal Institute for Hydraulic Engineering |
| Type of research: | Applied research |
| Subjects: | Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | Shipbuilding , hydraulic engineering , foundation engineering , hydraulics |
| Employee: | last 200 |
The Research Institute for Shipping, Hydraulic Engineering and Foundation Engineering (FAS) was responsible for the technical fundamentals of shipping and the operation of waterways in the German Democratic Republic . Between its founding in 1945 and 1951, the institute was called the “Research Institute for Shipping, Water and Soil Science” . With reunification in 1990, the facility was incorporated into the Federal Institute for Hydraulic Engineering .
history
The decisive predecessor and main component of the FAS was the Prussian Research Institute for Water, Earthwork and Shipbuilding (VWS). Since 1903 it has maintained a hydraulic engineering research institute on the Berlin lock island. Further research facilities were built in Potsdam-Marquardt (1920) and Berlin-Karlshorst (1934). After the end of the Second World War, all three institutions were in the hands of the Soviet military administration in Germany . This transported the remains of the massively damaged test facility from the lock island to Leningrad . At the same time, the Soviet administration founded what was then the “Research Institute for Shipping, Water and Soil Science” in autumn 1945. The lock island was partially restored by the FAS until 1951, before a West Berlin police presence occupied the island on May 11 and placed it under Allied control.
In addition to the expanded facilities in Marquardt and Karlshorst, the 180 employees of the FAS were also distributed across a new building in Berlin-Stralau in 1952 . From the end of the war up to this point in time, the FAS was characterized by frequent integration and outsourcing of departments. A few months after the change of her eponymous areas of responsibility from "Shipping, Water and Soil Science" to "Shipping, Hydraulic and Foundation Engineering" , this fluctuation calmed down somewhat. Another turning point did not take place until 1982, when the FAS was merged with the GDR waterway administration and the VE Kombinat inland shipping and waterways to form the VEB FAS / WTZ scientific and technical center. With the reunification, the FAS finally merged on October 3, 1990 in the Federal Institute for Hydraulic Engineering , based in Karlsruhe , and from then on formed its “Berlin branch”.
literature
- Günter Glazik: Historical development of the hydraulic engineering experimental system in the research stations Berlin-Karlshorst and Potsdam. In: Bulletin of the Federal Institute for Hydraulic Engineering. No. 82, 2000.
- Hans-Gerhard Knieß: Extended Federal Institute for Hydraulic Engineering. In: Bulletin of the Federal Institute for Hydraulic Engineering. No. 68, 1991.
- Lothar Lochmaier: The split in the German research landscape after the Second World War and the establishment of the Federal Institute for Hydraulic Engineering (1948). In: Bulletin of the Federal Institute for Hydraulic Engineering. No. 78, 1998.