Hans Laucht

Map of the planned port

Hans Laucht (born August 1, 1915 in Danzig ; † May 6, 2003 ) was a German engineer and port construction director in Hamburg from 1974 to 1979.

Laucht passed his diploma examination in 1937. After the Second World War he entered the service of the Hamburg Office for Electricity and Harbor Construction in 1945, and in 1956 he received his doctorate in Hanover with the thesis “Condition and development possibilities of the Hamburg river splitting area of the Elbe”. His professional advancement began in the same year when he took over the management of the planning department. In 1961 he became head of the electricity construction department, although his time there was marked by the storm surge in 1962 . Hans Laucht earned merits in the restoration of the dike security on the Old Southern Elbe, which began immediately afterwards . Just eight weeks after the storm surge, the area on the Alte Süderelbe was closed on both sides. In 1974 he was appointed honorary professor at the TU Berlin .

During his tenure as port construction director, the construction of the Hansaport , the flood protection measures after the second January flood in 1976 and the opening of the Elbe Lateral Canal fell . He also played a leading role in the planning of the failed deep-water port in Scharhörn .

Works

Scharhörn port project: a plan in the mirror of the times: 1948–1980

literature

Alexander Brede: Laucht, Hans . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 7 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-8353-3579-0 , p. 207-208 .

Individual evidence

↑ obituary by Heinz Giszas
↑ Prof. Laucht turns 70 , Hamburger Abendblatt , August 1, 1985
↑ Port construction director a. D. Dr.-Ing. Karl-Eduard Naumann, former port construction director D. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Laucht: Yearbook of the port construction company, chapter "Twenty years of planning and building for the Port of Hamburg" . Springer, 1986, ISBN 978-3-642-46586-4 , pp. 175-211 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-46585-7_14 .

personal data
SURNAME	Laucht, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German engineer, Hamburg port construction director
DATE OF BIRTH	August 1, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH	Danzig
DATE OF DEATH	May 6, 2003

[1] tuary by Heinz Giszas

[2] Prof. Laucht turns 70 , Hamburger Abendblatt , August 1, 1985

[3] Port construction director a. D. Dr.-Ing. Karl-Eduard Naumann, former port construction director D. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Laucht: Yearbook of the port construction company, chapter "Twenty years of planning and building for the Port of Hamburg" . Springer, 1986, ISBN 978-3-642-46586-4 , pp. 175-211 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-46585-7_14 .