Harald Kurz

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Harald Kurz (born January 13, 1912 in Teplitz ; † October 9, 2002 ) was a German transport scientist, professor of transport science, technical author and model railway designer.

Life

Kurz spent his youth in Dresden , where he completed his civil engineering studies at the local technical university in 1937 . Kurz worked for the Saxon state government for the following two years and from 1939 until the end of World War II at the Peenemünde airfield . From 1945 Kurz went back to Saxony, where he was involved in the reconstruction of the Zwinger and the Catholic Court Church as an employee of the Saxon building administration .

In 1949 he switched to a scientific career and received his doctorate in 1952 with a dissertation on "Fundamentals of model railway technology". Under the same name he published a two-volume standard work that described the development of model railroad technology using numerous contemporary examples and his research. Between 1962 and 1977, Kurz held the professorship for industrial transport at the Dresden University of Transport HfV "Friedrich List" . He played a major role in the expansion of the local railway operations.

From 1968, Kurz lived in Radebeul , where he built a well-known garden railway system in his garden . In addition, the "model railroad professor" was a member of the Radebeul-Kötzschenbroda model railroad club from 1975, which he supported significantly. In addition to his internationally recognized work as a model railway designer, Kurz was head of the technical committee for 15 years from 1971, abbreviated TK, the Association of Model Railroaders and Railway Friends of Europe , abbreviated MOROP. During this time, under his leadership, numerous standards, recommendations and documentation were created under the heading of standards for European model railways , or NEM for short.

In October 2002, Kurz died “of the consequences of a tragic accident”. He was buried in the Radebeul-West cemetery.

literature

  • Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MEC Radebeul-Kötzschenbroda e. V., Club Chronicle 1974
  2. ↑ Obituary for Prof. emer. Dr. Harald Kurz through MOROP (page 3) ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 224 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.morop.org
personal data
SURNAME In short, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German transport scientist, professor of transport science, technical author and model railway designer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Teplitz
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2002