Hans Siebke

Hans Siebke (born March 22, 1922 in Itzehoe ) is a German civil engineer and expert on railway bridges.

biography

Siebke received his doctorate in 1956 at the TH Hannover (contribution to the assessment of measured building vibrations). Then he was an assistant at the TH Hannover. In 1958 he passed the second state examination. Since 1966 he has been a consultant in the structural engineering department at the headquarters of the Deutsche Bundesbahn in Frankfurt and head of its bridge building department. He was also an honorary professor for welding technology. He was also a ministerial advisor.

He was largely responsible for the specifications for the bridges on the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg , which mostly used single-span girders made from prestressed concrete hollow boxes with standardized lengths.

Fonts

• Railway Bridge Construction Today, The Railway Engineer, 1982, Issue 12
• Durable Structures: Efforts of the German Federal Railway / Permanent Structures: Procedure of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, IABSE Proc., Volume 6, 1982
• Bridges and tunnels for new routes. In: Reiner Gohlke, Knut Reimers (Hrsg.): The new railway. Hestra-Verlag, Darmstadt 1985 (Yearbook of the Railway System. Volume 36), pp. 52–63.

literature

• Klaus Stiglat : Civil engineers and their work , Ernst and Son 2004, p. 164

Web links

• Biography in his engineering office

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Date of birth in a short biography, Wegbereiter der Bautechnik, series Klassiker der Technik, VDI Gesellschaft für Bautechnik, Düsseldorf 1990. In it Siebke published a biography of Gottwalt Schaper .
2. ↑ With a short biography and photo