Gerd Hauser

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Gerd Hauser (born March 8, 1948 in Bad Kissingen ; † August 10, 2015 ) was a German building physicist who made important contributions in the field of energy efficiency in the building sector.

Live and act

Gerd Hauser was the son of the town builder Ernst Hauser and his wife Katharina Hauser. He attended elementary school from 1954 to 1958 and then until 1967 the secondary school in Bad Kissingen, where he passed the Abitur. From 1967 to 1972 he studied at the Technical University of Munich and graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering.

From 1972 to 1977 Hauser was a research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics of the Fraunhofer Society . The focus of his work was on theoretical investigations into the thermal behavior of buildings. In 1977 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the subject of "Calculative prediction of the thermal behavior of large buildings" at the Faculty of Building Construction at the University of Stuttgart . For this work he was awarded the Friends of the University of Stuttgart Prize.

From 1977 to 1983 he worked as a senior engineer in the field of building physics and building materials at the University of Essen . During this time he had a lectureship at the University of Stuttgart from 1978 to 1979.

From 1983 to 2004 Hauser was Professor of Building Physics in the Faculty of Architecture (1983–2003) and in the Faculty of Architecture, Urban Planning, Landscape Planning (2003–2004) at the University of Kassel . In 1990 he was appointed full professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich , which he refused.

Since 2004 Gerd Hauser has been Professor of Building Physics in the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Surveying at the Technical University of Munich and Head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP with locations in Stuttgart, Holzkirchen and Kassel.

In 1999, Hauser founded the Center for Environmentally Conscious Building. V. , in which he is a member of the board.

Gerd Hauser had a daughter from his first marriage. He was in his second marriage since 2006 with Helga geb. Bolte married.

Scientific achievements

Gerd Hauser made important contributions in connection with energy efficiency in the building sector. This includes:

  • the development of the first fully dynamic simulation program for calculating the thermal behavior of entire buildings in Germany
  • the development of standard works for the treatment of thermal bridges
  • advising the federal government on drafting and amending the thermal insulation ordinances and the energy saving ordinances
  • the function of chairman of the corresponding DIN standardization committee for thermal insulation in building construction
  • Promoting the idea of ​​energy saving through his function as chairman of the Society for Rational Energy Use from 1986 to 2014, by chairing the Airtightness Association in Building since 2004 and chairing the Center for Environmentally Conscious Building e. V. since 1999
  • the development of the first energy pass for energy labeling of buildings in Europe

In addition to the special research topics, Gerd Hauser has written around 250 specialist publications in the fields of thermal-energetic building physics, general building construction issues and system technology in specialist journals and books. In addition to the thermal bridge atlases for masonry and timber construction, information brochures such as the GRE brochure “Energy saving in existing buildings” were particularly popular.

In addition to his work as an author, Gerd Hauser was a scientific adviser to the journal Bauphysik.

Gerd Hauser Prize

The Society for Rational Use of Energy has been awarding the Gerd Hauser Prize every two years since 2018 . This honors outstanding dissertations of above-average importance in theory and practice. The award is endowed with 2000 euros. The prize was donated by the BuVEG Federal Association for Energy-Efficient Building Envelopes .

Award winners

  • Simon Schmidt (2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ First Gerd Hauser Prize goes to Simon Schmidt . In: EnBauSa News: Energy-efficient building and renovation . ( enbausa.de [accessed April 4, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Hauser, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German building physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kissingen
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2015