Hans Minetti

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Hans Theodor Carl Minetti (* 19 July 1898 in Hamburg , † 12. September 1991 ) was a German concrete - engineer .

Life

Minetti was the son of the architect and director of the Hamburg building school Wilhelm Minetti and, after completing his military service in World War I, studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig from 1919 to 1922 (diploma with distinction). He then worked for Dyckerhoff and Widmann in the design office in Biebrich and then construction manager in their branch in Saarbrücken. In 1924, at the age of 26, he became head of the Hamburg branch of Held & Francke Bauaktiengesellschaft , which he remained until 1933. In 1928 he received his doctorate in Braunschweig ( The difference in economic efficiency between articulated and clamped rectangular frames made of reinforced concrete ). From 1933 to 1939 he headed the Hamburg branch of Lenz-Bau AG. During the Second World War, he served as a corvette captain of the reserve in the Navy from 1939 to 1945.

After the war years he returned to Lenz-Bau and was a member of the board from 1946 to 1954. In 1947 he was appointed chairman of the German Concrete Association . V. Wiesbaden (today the German Concrete and Construction Technology Association), where he worked until 1972. During this time, Minetti gave various speeches at the opening events of the German concrete days and concrete technology lectures during such concrete days.

After the war he was in various committees of the Federal Ministry for Housing and the Federation of German Industries for Civil Air Protection and from 1955 headed the concrete roads working group of the Road Research Association. Among other things, he published after the war on the technical problems of reconstruction in the Federal Republic including rubble recovery, the economic dimensioning of concrete slabs and beams and air protection.

In 1969 Minetti was awarded the academic dignity of Honorary Senator by the Technical University of Berlin and the 1969 Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1970 he received the honorary membership "Honorary Life Member" of the Fédération internationale du béton , Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1971 he received the Emil Mörsch medal and in 1973 became honorary chairman of the German Concrete Association. V.

He was a member of the German Committee for Reinforced Concrete and on the board of the German Association of Architects and Engineers. He was also on the board of fip and headed the 3rd Prestressed Concrete Congress in Berlin in 1958.

Fonts

  • Debris recycling and other technical reconstruction problems in major German cities. Lecture given on March 12, 1946 in Hamburg. Hamburg: Verlag Sachse, 1946. ( DNB 57700705X )
  • Air defense of the buildings. Constructive measures. Koblenz-Neuendorf: Verlag Gasschutz und Luftschutz, 1954. ( DNB 453386377 )
  • Concrete as a building material , in: DAI, 4/1975. Subject: Concrete in the urban landscape. Publisher: Association of German Architects and Engineers' Associations. Verlag Santz Altena, 1975.

literature

  • Developing, Constructing, Building, Festschrift, 217 pages.
  • DBV membership directory Sept. 2008, 111 pages.
  • Awarding of the academic dignity of Honorary Senator to Ms. Private Lecturer Dr. phil. Clara von Simson ... and to Dr.Ing. Hans Minetti through the Technical University of Berlin.
  • Dr. Ing.Hans Minetti 60 years, beton, 8th year, No. 7, 1958, p. 221

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register StA Hamburg 22, No. 1362/1898
  2. ↑ Death register StA Hamburg-Eimsbüttel, No. 1532/1991
  3. ^ Walter de Gruyter: Berlin Bibliography 1961 to 1966. Walter de Gruyter, 1973, ISBN 9783110040609 , p. 113. Restricted preview in the Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Minetti, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Minetti, Hans Theodor Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concrete construction engineer
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1991
Place of death Hamburg