Hans-Georg Retzko

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Hans-Georg Retzko (born November 27, 1928 in Hagen ; † November 19, 2014 in Darmstadt ) was a German civil engineer and professor for traffic planning and traffic engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

Life

After graduating from high school in Lübbecke in 1949 , Retzko studied civil engineering at the Technical University in Hanover and graduated in 1955 with a degree in engineering. He then worked as a research assistant and research assistant at the chair and institute for transport, road and urban planning at the Technical University of Hanover. Retzko received his doctorate in 1961 and moved to the Nuremberg City Planning Office as a municipal building officer and then a consultant for civil engineering and urban planning at the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs in Hanover.

In 1966, he was appointed to the newly created full chair for traffic planning and traffic engineering in the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt and appointed director of the institute of the same name. From 1966 until his retirement in 1997, Retzko was head of the department of traffic planning and traffic engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Retzko was dean for the water and transport department three times and the driving force behind the merger of the department with the structural engineering department to form the civil engineering department. He has written more than 200 scientific publications. In 1980 Retzko founded the international planning office Retzko + Topp in Darmstadt with the civil engineer Hartmut Topp . In 1997, Retzko retired, but remained active at the chair and was particularly committed to academic exchange with Japan, Vietnam and China.

Hans-Georg Retzko died in November 2014. He was married and had two children.

Awards

  • 1995: Erasmus Kittler Medal from the Technical University of Darmstadt
  • 1996: Honorary doctorate Dr.-Ing. E. h. by the Technical University of Dresden
  • 2002: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2003: Medal "For Merit in Education" of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
  • 2006: Awarded the title “Advisory Professor” by Tongji University Shanghai, China
  • 2011: Tongji Special Award for International Cooperation.

literature

  • Manfred Boltze : An excellent traffic planner. Obituary for Professor Dr.-Ing. E. h. Hans-Georg Retzko, in: hoch3, Die Zeitung der Technische Universität Darmstadt, 11th year, February 2nd, 2015, p. 19.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Christian Lippold (Ed.): Der Elsner. Road and Transportation Handbook . Otto Elsner Verlagsgesellschaft, 2018, ISBN 978-3-87199-222-3 , page A / 57.
  2. ↑ Prof. Hans-Georg Retzko - Tabular curriculum vitae. (No longer available online.) TU Darmstadt - Institute for Transport, archived from the original on December 1, 2014 ; accessed on January 8, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Retzko, Hans-Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Retzko, Hans Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and professor for traffic planning and traffic engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen
DATE OF DEATH 19th November 2014
Place of death Darmstadt