Fritz Wenzel (engineer)

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Fritz Wenzel (born February 8, 1930 in Ruden , Lower Silesia) is a German civil engineer and university professor .

biography

Wenzel attended school in Silesia and, after fleeing, in Lower Saxony, completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter from 1949 to 1951 and studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig from 1951 . In 1957/58 he worked for the Wilhelm Goes construction company in Salzgitter . In 1959 he became assistant to Klaus Pieper at the chair for structural engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig, where he received his doctorate in 1963 (investigations into the pressure conditions in silo cells) . From 1964 to 1967 he headed the von Pieper engineering office in Braunschweig. From 1967 (successor to Georg Lewenton ) until his retirement in 1998, he was a full professor for supporting structures at the TH Karlsruhe . From 1968 he also had his own engineering office, in which he accepted partners in 1978. In 2007 he retired from active employment.

1970 to 1998 he was a test engineer for structural engineering. In 2000 he received an honorary doctorate from the TU Braunschweig.

Like Klaus Pieper, he dealt with the preservation of historical buildings and founded and headed a special research area of the DFG from 1985 to 2002 . As part of this, he also published yearbooks on the subject from 1987 (published by Ernst & Sohn ). In 1997 he introduced a course in the restoration of old buildings in Karlsruhe. He was also active as an international consultant.

In 1990 he founded a further training and advice center for the preservation of monuments and careful renovation of old buildings (“Villa Salzburg”) in Dresden, which he also directed.

In addition, he dealt with silo construction (also in standardization).

Fonts

  • with Klaus Pieper: Pressure conditions in silo cells, Ernst and Son 1964
  • with others: Historical masonry: Examining, evaluating and repairing, SFB 315, Universität Karlsruhe 2000
  • Editor: Reports on the reconstruction of the Frauenkirche in Dresden: Construction of the stone structure and integration of the ruins, Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe 2007

literature

  • Klaus Stiglat : Civil engineers and their work , Ernst and Son 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For example, he published in 1969: The security work on the wooden roof and dome structures of the Neresheim abbey , Deutsche Kunst und Denkmalpflege, 1969, pp. 165–171
  2. ^ Karl-Eugen Kurrer : History of structural engineering. In search of balance . Berlin Ernst & Sohn 2016, p. 377, ISBN 978-3-433-03134-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Wenzel, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruden