Gerhard Schramm (Railway Engineer)

Gerhard Max Schramm (born June 23, 1903 in Worle in the Neustadt district in West Prussia ; † June 21, 1998 in Kirchseeon ) was a German railway engineer, civil servant and university professor.

Life

Born as the son of the factory director Max Schramm, Gerhard Schramm attended the humanistic high school in Neustadt. In the summer semester of 1920 he went to study civil engineering at the Technical University of Danzig , where he became a member of the Corps Baltica in the same semester. In the winter semester of 1922 he moved to the Technical University of Munich . In October 1924 he completed his studies there as a Dipl.-Ing. from. From 1925 to 1926 he was a structural engineer and designer at the steel and concrete construction company C. v. Grüber AG in Berlin. In the summer semester of 1926 he passed the supplementary examination for public service attorneys at the Technical University of Munich.

From October 1926 to August 1965 he worked in the civil service as a civil servant at the Reichsbahn and later the Bundesbahn . After his legal clerkship at the Reichsbahndirektion in Munich , he was given leave of absence from autumn 1929 to March 1930 to prepare his doctoral thesis , which he submitted to the Technical University of Danzig. In June 1930 he was awarded a Dr.-Ing. PhD. From April 1930 to the end of 1933 he was employed by the Reichsbahndirektion Ludwigshafen and until October 1934 as a government builder at the Reichsbahndirektion Augsburg . Then he was an assistant in the senior building department of the Reich Ministry of Transport in Berlin until October 1937 . Until June 1942 he was head of the Stangard works office in Pomerania and senior construction department at the Reich Railway Directorate in Cologne and Danzig . After that, until May 1945 he was head of the senior building department in the Reich Ministry of Transport as a ministerial advisor. From September 1945 to the end of 1947 he worked at the General Management in Bielefeld . From 1948 until his retirement in 1965 he was senior construction consultant at the main administration of the Federal Railroad in Frankfurt am Main , and from the end of 1959 as ministerial director . After his retirement, he worked as a consultant for railway superstructures .

In September 1939 , Gerhard Schramm completed his habilitation at RWTH Aachen University . In July 1955 he became a private lecturer at the Technical University of Darmstadt . Since July 1963 he was an adjunct professor for railway construction at the Technical University of Munich. He has written six books and over 100 articles in journals on railway construction.

Awards

• Large Federal Cross of Merit , 1969

Fonts

• The staking out of track curves using the involute method by Nalenz-Höfer, 1929
• The perfect curve, 1931
• The design of the track curves as curves with continuously changing curvature, 1931
• Arch design and staking out, 1949
• Transition arches in road construction (together with Hans Lorenz and Hugo Kasper), 1949
• The track curve - its geometric and structural design, 1962
• The architectural drawing, 1965
• Introduction to track construction, 1970
• Track technology and track economy, 1973
• The Federal Railway Superstructure, 1978

literature

• Hans Nehlep (Ed.): Album Academicum des Corps Baltica-Borussia Danzig 1860-1970. Berlin 1973.
• * Schramm, Gerhard . In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1996. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists . 17th edition, Volume Medicine-Natural Sciences-Technology , p. 1258.