Hanns Alexander Simons
Hanns Alexander Simons (born May 17, 1900 in Frankfurt am Main ; † September 16, 1939 near Bronisławy, west of Warsaw ) was a German civil engineer, professor and rector of the Technical University of Hanover .
Life
After studying civil engineering, he first became an assistant to Theodor Rehbock in Karlsruhe in the summer of 1922 , but on October 1st of that year he switched to Hochtief in Essen as a design engineer and structural engineer , where he stayed until 1924. From 1927 to 1935 Simons worked for the Siemens-Bauunion in Berlin, Moscow and Upper Silesia. In 1932 Simons became a member of the NSDAP . In 1935 he was given a full professorship for timber construction and structural engineering at the Technical University of Hanover. From 1937 to 1939 Simons was rector of the TH Hannover. Under his aegis, the university lecturers Otto Flachsbart and Günther Schiemann were expelled from the Technical University of Hanover in 1937 for racist reasons. Simons actively pursued the further Nazification of the university. He joined the Wehrmacht as a reserve lieutenant and died on September 16, 1939 at the Battle of Warsaw in World War II . He was buried in the German military cemetery in Puławy .
His two sons Hanns Simons (1925–1984) and Klaus Simons (1927–1992) also became engineers and university teachers.
After Simon's death, a Hanns Simons Memorial Foundation was set up to support the Langemarck studies .
literature
- Catalogus professorum 1831-1981 . Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hanover, Vol. 2, Stuttgart 1981, p. 298.
- Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , pp. 161-162.
- Michael Jung: Our hearts beat with enthusiasm towards the Führer. The Technical University of Hanover and its professors under National Socialism. BOD, Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6451-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Jung: Our hearts beat enthusiastically to the Führer. The Technical University of Hanover and its professors under National Socialism. BOD, Norderstedt 2013, pp. 125-127, 107-114
- ^ Rector Professor Simons , in: Deutsche Bauzeitung, Volume 73, Part 2, p. 794
- ↑ Endgrablage: Block 3 Series 4 grave 171 , in: database of the German War Graves Commission , accessed 3 August 2010
- ^ Marlis Buchholz: Die hannoverschen Judenhäuser , Lax, 1987, p. 28; Hans-Werner Niemann, The TU in the field of tension between university reform and politicization (1918-1945), in: Catalogus Professorum 1831-1981. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hanover. Vol. 2, Hanover 1981.
Directors: Karl Karmarsch (1831–1875) | Wilhelm Launhardt (1875–1880)
Rectors: Wilhelm Launhardt (1880–1886) | Karl Dolezalek (1886-1892) | Wilhelm Kohlrausch (1892–1895) | Albert Frank (1895–1898) | Heinrich Köhler (1898–1901) | Ludwig Kiepert (1901–1904) | Georg Barkhausen (1904–1907) | Hermann Ost (1907–1910) | Franz Frese (1910–1911) | Karl Mohrmann (1911–1913) | Robert Otzen (1913–1915) | Carl Heim (1915–1917) | Ludwig Troske (1917–1919) | Conrad Müller (1919–1923) | Ernst Vetterlein (1923–1925) | Fritz Oesterlen (1925–1927) | Friedrich Quincke (1927–1929) | Otto Blum (1929–1931) | Ludwig Klein (1931–1933) | Otto Franzius (1933–1934) | Horst von Sanden (1934–1937) | Hanns Simons (1937–1939) | Alexander Matting (1940-1943) | Helmut Pfannmüller (1943–1945) | Conrad Müller (1945–1947) | Otto Flachsbart (1947–1950) | Walter Großmann (1950–1951) | Hermann Deckert (1951–1952) | Walter Hensen (1952–1954) | Hans Schönfeld (1954–1956) | Johannes Schlums (1956–1957) | Walter Theilacker (1957–1958) | Wilhelm Nicolaisen (1958–1959) | Egon Martyrer (1959–1960) | Wilhelm Wortmann (1960–1961) | Hans-Oskar Wilde (1961–1963) | Albert Vierling (1963–1964) | Walter Renard (1964–1966) | Theodor Kaluza (1966–1968) | Alf Pflüger (1968–1969) | Eduard Pestel (1969–1970) | Hermann Böhrs (1970–1971) | Jürgen Wehrmann (1971–1972) | Lothar Hübl (1973–1974) | Gerhart Laage (1974–1975) | Hinrich Seidel (1975–1977) | Otwin Massing (1977–1978) | Klaus Schäfer (1978–1979)
President: Hinrich Seidel (1979–1997) | Ludwig Schätzl (1997–2005) | Erich Barke (2005–2014) | Volker Epping (since 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simons, Hanns Alexander |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Simons, Hanns |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil engineer and rector of the Technical University of Hanover |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th May 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 1939 |
| Place of death | near Bronisławy west of Warsaw |