Heinrich Burchartz

Heinrich Burchartz as a corps student in 1886

Heinrich Burchartz (born December 27, 1864 in Cologne ; † August 9, 1938 in Berlin ) was a German engineer and professor of building materials science at the State Materials Testing Office in Berlin-Dahlem.

Life path

Born and raised in Cologne, Heinrich Burchartz went to Berlin for the summer semester of 1885 to study civil engineering at the Technical University of Berlin . In the same semester he became active in the Corps Saxonia-Berlin. After completing his studies, he moved to the Royal Examination Station for Building Materials in 1889 as Max Gary's assistant . After about ten years he was appointed permanent employee at the Royal Technical Research Institute, which the Royal Testing Station for Building Materials had meanwhile been incorporated into. In 1917 he was appointed professor. After Max Gary's death, he succeeded him as head of the building trade at the Dahlem Institute. After reaching retirement age, he remained in office for another three years until 1932. Lothar Krüger was appointed his successor .

Research priorities

Heinrich Burchartz's work almost completely encompassed the entire building material and material testing knowledge. His main scientific merit, however, was in the special field of binder science. In his book Luftkalke und Luftkalkmörtel , he described in detail the advantages and disadvantages of these traditional building materials compared to cement and concrete. He also researched cement and hydraulic aggregate, the trass, and the properties of sand-lime brick and blast furnace slag.

Publications

(excerpts, 79 publications by Heinrich Burchartz are listed on BAM's PUBLICA database server)

• Reinforced Concrete Construction Manual . Edited by Dr. Ing.F. Emperger. Third revised edition. In 14 volumes. Berlin 1921. Wilh. Ernst u. Son. - 2nd vol .: The building material and its processing . Edited by K. Memmler, H. Burchartz, H, Albrecht, H. Schluckebier, 0. Rappold u. A. Nowak.
• Burchartz, H .: Air Lime and Air Mortar. Results of tests carried out in the Royal Materials Testing Office Groß-Lichterfelde-West , Berlin, 1908. Julius Springer. publishing company
• Burchartz, H .: Experiments with blast furnace slag - carried out in the State Materials Testing Office in Berlin-Dahlem from 1916 to 1919 , communications from the Materials Testing Office in Berlin-Dahlem, Volume 38, 1920, Issue 2-3, pp. 149-163
• Burchartz, H .: The properties of trass and trass mortar , communications from the Royal Materials Testing Office in Berlin-Lichterfelde-West, Volume 31, 1913, Issue 1, pp. 1-56
• Burchartz, H .: The properties of Portland cement, Eisenportlandaement, blast furnace cement and other hydraulic binders , communications from the Materials Testing Office in Berlin-Dahlem, Volume 37, 1919, Issue 1–2, pp. 85–109

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Burchartz in the catalog of the German National Library

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• Carl Weigandt: History of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin to Aachen 1867-1967 , Aachen 1968
• From the material testing office , in Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 44, 1924, No. 52, p. 484
• Alfred G. Meyer: Chronicle of the Royal Technical University of Berlin 1884-1899 - Mechanical-technical research institute , pp. 265–268. As part II of: Eduard Dobbert : Chronicle of the Royal Technical University of Berlin 1799-1899 , 1899

supporting documents

1. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 37, 1917, No. 1 and 2, p. 1
2. ↑ From the Corps Brothers . In: Sachsenblatt, Volume 16, Number 2 (April 1, 1932)
3. ↑ BAM's PUBLICA database server ( Memento of the original dated December 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.