Gustav Mayor

Gustav Mayor

Gustav Bürgermeister (born May 10, 1906 in Woken ; † July 30, 1983 in Essen ) was a German structural engineer and professor at the Technical University of Dresden for structural engineering and steel construction specializing in stability theory . Due to the political conditions of the 20th century, he lived in six national areas ( Austria-Hungary -1906, Czechoslovakia -1918, Germany -1938, Soviet occupation zone -1945, GDR -1949, FRG -1980).

Life

Gustav Bürgermeister was born in 1906 in the small German village of Woken in northern Bohemia as the youngest son of a wealthy farming family with many children. Due to the limited school opportunities in his home country, he was temporarily accepted into his sister's family in Aussig / Elbe , then Czechoslovakia, and passed his Abitur there in 1925 after attending the German secondary school. He then studied civil engineering at the German Technical University in Prague , which he graduated with a diploma in 1932. He then worked as an assistant to Professors Joseph Melan and Wanke. In Richard Guldan's engineering office , he dealt with steel construction planning for buildings and bridges. For several semesters he was the deputy head of the Chair of Steel and Building Construction. In 1940 he received his doctorate with distinction from the German Technical University in Prague . At the same institution , he completed his habilitation in 1943 with the writing support grids of steel bridges, taking into account the torsional resistance and investigation of road grating.

At the end of the Second World War in 1945, he and his family moved from Prague to the Soviet occupation zone in Germany. From 1946 to 1952 the mayor was chief engineer, authorized signatory and head of the technical department of the bridge construction company Beuchelt & Co. in Könnern / Saale , which concentrated on the restoration of war-torn bridges. In doing so, he benefited from his specialist knowledge of stability in difficult assembly processes with the highest loads. In 1952 he was appointed professor for structural engineering and steel construction at the Technical University of Dresden as the successor to Professor Kurt Beyer . From 1952 until his retirement in 1971 he was a professor at the Technical University of Dresden. The office of dean of the Faculty of Construction was held by Mayor from 1968 to 1970. In addition to managing the civil engineering department for several years, he was responsible for the scientific supervision and promotion of doctoral students, post-doctoral students and prospective professors. In 1980 he moved from Dresden to Essen to live with his son. He died there in 1983.

Awards and external functions

• Honored Technician of the People
• Medal of Merit of the GDR
• Member of the German Committee for Steel Construction (DASt), based in Düsseldorf
• Member of the Building Academy of the GDR , based in Berlin (East)
• Head of the Central Steel Construction Working Group at the Research Council of the GDR
• Various appointments in scientific working groups and expert committees
• Head of the GDR Committee of the International Association for Bridge and Building Construction (IVBH) with scientific management and organization of two important international steel construction conferences in Dresden in 1959 and 1967 as one of the highlights of his work at the TU Dresden.

Publications

• Gustav Bürgermeister and Herbert Steup: Stability Theory. 2 volumes, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1957 and 1963. (Calculation examples by Horst Kretzschmar)
• Gustav mayor (Hrsg.): Engineer pocket book construction. Volume 2: Structural engineering. 2 parts, Teubner, Leipzig 1968 and 1970 (publication and own scientific contributions)
• Gustav mayor (ed.): Steel construction conference of the Technical University of Dresden. Publishing house for construction, Berlin 1960
• Gustav mayor: Basics of steel construction (p. 1.) (1968) (special print) From BSZ Baden-Württemberg
• Gustav Mayor: Report of the 5th Congress of the IVBH 1956 in Lisbon and Porto , TH Dresden 1956 (congress document)
• Gustav mayor: distance learning -Dipl.-Ing. TH Dresden (20 lesson units - 60 pages each) - statics; Steel construction, stability theory publishing house Technik Berlin / 1953–1960. From BSZ Baden-Württemberg
• Gustav Mayor: Statics of the building structures. Changed reprint. II. Edition Berlin: Verlag Technik-1961. From BSZ Baden-Württemberg.

literature

• Müller: For the 60th birthday building planning / construction technology. 20th year issue 5 May 1966
• Walter Kinze: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Habil. Gustav Mayor on his 65th birthday. University of Dresden, Civil Engineering Section, Dresden 1971 (Festschrift), special print from: Scientific journal of the Technical University of Dresden. Volume 20, 1971, Issue 2, pp. 519-843.
• For the 70th birthday. In: Neues Deutschland , May 10, 1976
• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : History of Structural Analysis. In search of balance . Ernst & Sohn , Berlin 2016, p. 956, ISBN 978-3-433-03134-6 ,
• 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 .
• K. Roik : Professor Dr.-Ing. habil. Gustav Mayor 75 years . In: Stahlbau , Volume 50, No. 5, 1981, Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1981, p. 159, ISSN  0932-6375

Web links

• Ernst Hess: Gustav mayor (1906–1983) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
• Mayor, Gustav ( Memento from April 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Person-Wiki of the SLUB-Dresden
• Anniversary volume 100 years of the German Committee for Steel Construction, see page 40
• History of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Dresden
• Historical development of the professorship for steel construction at the Technical University of Dresden
• On the history of the Institute for Statics and Dynamics of Structures at the Technical University of Dresden