Georg Christoph Mehrtens
Georg Christoph Mehrtens (born May 31, 1843 in Bremerhaven ; † January 9, 1917 in Dresden ) was a German civil engineer and university professor .
Life
After completing his schooling at the secondary school in Bremerhaven, Mehrtens did an internship in Hamburg before he began studying engineering at the Technical University of Hanover , which he completed in 1865.
He was then involved in the construction of the Berlin-Dresden and Berlin-Lüneburg railway lines as a section builder and chief engineer at the Hanover Railway Directorate until 1878 . From 1878 to 1888 Mehrtens worked in the Prussian Ministry of Public Works in Berlin, during which time he increasingly turned to research and the Technical University of Charlottenburg and, after completing his habilitation, began teaching.
Still active in the Prussian civil service, from 1888 he was in charge of the construction of the Vistula Bridge in Dirschau , the Nogat Bridge and today's Rudolf Modrzejewski Bridge over the Vistula near Fordon near Bromberg (today Bydgoszcz ). Mehrtens established his reputation in the professional world with this wide-span mild steel bridge and consolidated it with a lecture at the world exhibition in Chicago in 1893 on the use of mild steel in bridge construction.
In 1894 he followed a call to the Technical University of Aachen before he took over the chair of the late Wilhelm Fränkel for structural engineering and iron bridge construction at the Technical University of Dresden in October 1895 . After his colleague Otto Mohr from Dresden retired , he continued his lectures on strength and building materials. Mehrtens was rector of the Dresden University of Technology from 1901 to 1902 and, in addition to his intensive teaching activities, was also the author of a large number of publications, reviewer and member of the editorial board of the Eisenbeton magazine . In April 1913 he was retired .
His students also included the later Dresden professors Max Förster , Willy Gehler and Kurt Beyer .
literature
- Karin Fischer: Portrait of Georg Christoph Mehrtens. 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 , pp. 610-611.
- Friedrich Nather : Mehrtens, Georg Christoph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , pp. 628 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Georg Christoph Mehrtens (1843–1917): Protagonist of steel bridge construction in Wilhelmine Germany. Stahlbau , Volume 86, 2017, Issue 6, pp. 527-547.
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Christoph Mehrtens in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mostly, Georg Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil engineer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremerhaven |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1917 |
| Place of death | Dresden |