Fritz Bürkle

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Fritz Bürkle (born February 1, 1919 in Stuttgart ; † February 23, 2013 ) was a German hydraulic engineer .

Life

After military service, during which he suffered severe wounds, Bürkle continued his studies in civil engineering at the University of Stuttgart . After completing his studies, he started working for the Baden-Württemberg water management authority in 1949 . In 1952 he passed the examination to become a government architect. From 1953 to 1970 he headed the Künzelsau water management office . From 1970 to 1980 he was director of the Besigheim water management office . In 1980 he took early retirement because of his serious war injuries.

Bürkle was one of the founders of engineering biology . For many years he was a consultant at the Baden-Württemberg State Nature Conservation Association .

Bürkle was already committed to nature and environmental protection during his career . He maintained close contacts with private nature conservation organizations. His concerns were an ecological water management, protection and renaturation of the waters and the surrounding landscape, protection of the groundwater and the monument protection . He expressed these concerns in numerous publications. In addition, he led many excursions and guided tours, especially in the greater Stuttgart area, during which he interested and sensitized the participants to the problems of water protection . He also supported the preservation of monuments with private donations.

Bürkle was married and had several children and grandchildren. He spent the last years of his life with his wife on the Loretto farm in Zwiefalten-Sonderbuch on the edge of the Swabian Alb . The buildings of the Loretto-Hof originally belonged to the Zwiefalten monastery . The couple's two daughters ran an ecological farm there with a farm shop , wood oven bakery, and goat breeding with goat cheese preparation.

Bürkle was buried on March 4, 2013 in the Pragfriedhof in Stuttgart.

Memberships and honors

Bürkle had been a member of the Swabian Homeland Federation (SHB) since 1940 . He worked there since 1983 in the committee for nature conservation and the environment. In 1999 he was made an honorary member of the SHB. In 2009 Bürkle was made an honorary member of the German Water History Society . Bürkle received the state medal in silver from the state government and the Ministry of Agriculture of Baden-Württemberg and the water management award from the Baden-Württemberg Water Management Association.

Fonts

  • The Hermuthäuser fish ponds through the ages; the hermitage on the Bromberg together with Adolf Rieth in Swabian homeland. Journal for the care of landscape, folk, culture. Oct. - Dec., issue 4, 1976, publisher: Konrad Theiss
  • Ecological investigations on the developed lower Murr. Ludwigsburg district: 1977–1982 together with Harald Buck, Claus Ganzhorn, Gerhard Weiser, State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg , 1985, ISBN 978-3882510928
  • Karl August Friedrich von Duttenhofer (1758–1836). Pioneer of hydraulic engineering in Württemberg. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-608-91521-4 ( Publications of the Stuttgart Archive . Volume 41).
  • The Neckar and Freiberg through the ages , published by the city of Freiberg am Neckar, 1989
  • Ecological investigations on the developed lower Murr. Ludwigsburg district: 1983–1987 together with Ottfried Arnold, Harald Buck, State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg, 1991, ISBN 978-3882511697
  • From hydraulic engineering and cultural engineering to water management in Baden-Württemberg. 200 years of water management in southwest Germany together with Hans Schaal († 1992), Karlsruhe: State Institute for Environmental Protection, 1993, ISBN 978-3882511970

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fritz Bürkle at trauer.schwaebische.de. Retrieved June 5, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d German Water History Society e. V .: Announcements No. 15 / September 2010 downloadable as pdf . Retrieved June 5, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b c Honorary member Fritz Bürkle dies schwaebischer-heimatbund.de. Retrieved June 5, 2020.
  4. ↑ About Loretto at lorettozwiefalten.de. Retrieved June 5, 2020.

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personal data
SURNAME Bürkle, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hydraulic engineer
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 2013