Gotthard Franz

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Gotthard Franz (born January 29, 1904 in Löbau , Saxony , † December 20, 1991 in Karlsruhe , Baden-Württemberg ) was a German civil engineer and university professor .

Life

Gotthard Franz, son of the senior teacher Oskar Franz and the Charlotte born Francke, devoted himself to studying civil engineering at the TH Dresden after completing his Abitur , which he obtained in 1928 with the academic degree of Dipl.-Ing. completed. This was followed by a three-year assistantship and a doctorate with Kurt Beyer . In 1934 he began his professional career at Wayss & Freytag , for which he worked for a total of 21 years. In 1938 Franz demonstrated the stability of the bridge girders of the Weg Hesseler overpass when it was moved sideways and, among other things, was responsible for the design of the Saar Bridge Dillingen between Dillingen , Saarlouis and Wallerfangen in 1954 .

In 1955 Gotthard Franz accepted the call to the professorship and head of the Institute for Concrete and Reinforced Concrete Construction at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , and in 1970 he retired . Franz - he published scientific articles in his fields of concrete, reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete - was awarded the Engels Memorial Medal by the TH Dresden in 1928, an honorary doctorate from the TU Braunschweig in 1975 and the medal for special services to the University of Karlsruhe. Gotthard Franz, who married Gertraude, born in Freieleben in 1934, died in 1991 five weeks before he was 88 in Karlsruhe. Two years after his death, a side street off Parkstrasse in the Oststadt district of Karlsruhe was named after him in Gotthard-Franz-Strasse .

From 1969 to 1990 he published the concrete calendar .

Publications (selection)

  • Construction theory of reinforced concrete. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1963.
    • Volume 1: Fundamentals and components. Building materials. Edition 4, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-540-09821-6 .
    • Volume 2: Structures. Part A Typical structures. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 0-387-16861-3 .
  • with Heinrich Brenker: Deformation tests on reinforced concrete beams with high-strength reinforcement steel. Report in: Volume 188 of series of publications of the German Committee for Reinforced Concrete. Ernst & Son, Berlin 1967.
  • with Helmut Wascheidt, Hans-Dieter Fein: Fatigue strength of reinforcing steel in the concrete state. Concrete joints under repeated joint rotations. Test reports and design proposal for reinforced concrete joints with joint insert bodies. W. Ernst, Berlin 1968, OCLC 311232870 .
  • Calculating with discontinuous functions in structural engineering. W. Ernst, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-433-00588-5 .
  • The components and their dimensioning. Edition 4, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-540-12191-9 .

literature

  • Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who ?: The German who's who. Volume 18. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1975, ISBN 3-797-30267-3 . P. 260.
  • Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar. Volume 1, 13th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3110074346 , p. 949.
  • Klaus Stiglat : Civil engineers and their work , Ernst & Sohn 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz, Gotthard ( memento from June 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 214 kB) on biblio.tu-bs.de, accessed on August 7, 2013.
  2. ^ Karl-Eugen Kurrer : 100 years of concrete calendar . In: Beton- und Stahlbetonbau , 100th year (2005), no. 9, pp. 795–811.
personal data
SURNAME Franz, Gotthard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Löbau , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1991
Place of death Karlsruhe , Baden-Wuerttemberg