Gerd Thielen

Gerd Thielen (born July 6, 1942 in Daun ; † October 31, 2010 in Munich ) was a German civil engineer .

Life

Thielen studied from 1969 to 1975 at the Technical University of Munich , where he did his doctorate in 1975 as a Dr.-Ing. He then spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. From 1988 to 1996 he was a lecturer at RWTH Aachen University and was appointed honorary professor there in 1996. In 1988 Thielen came to the Verein Deutscher Zementwerke eV, Düsseldorf (VDZ), where he was director of the concrete technology department at the Research Institute of the Cement Industry (FIZ) until 2005 and held the position of managing director of the VDZ.

Thielen made several contributions to the practice of building materials, especially reinforced concrete . He was also the editor of the concrete technical reports .

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. KG Saur, 2001
• Hans-Ulrich Litzner: Gerd Thielen - 65 years. In: Beton- und Stahlbetonbau , Volume 102, Issue 7, pp. 491–492, July 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary notice. ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Trierischer Volksfreund , November 9, 2010. Accessed April 27, 2011.