Heinrich Heiser

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Heinrich Heiser (born July 29, 1883 in Meppen , † February 6, 1962 in Bremen ) was a German hydraulic engineer .

After graduating from high school in Lingen (Ems), Heiser studied civil engineering at the TH Berlin from 1901-06 . Then he worked at the Emden water engineering authority and as a state commissioner at the Society for the Promotion of Water Management in the Harz Mountains in Braunschweig . In 1913 he traveled to Sweden and Norway to visit hydroelectric plants. After participating in the First World War as a pioneer officer, he went to Magdeburg and did preparatory work for the Saale dams in Saalfeld (1919 as a government building officer ). From 1921 he worked for the Prussian Ministry for Agriculture, Domains and Forests and in 1924 was appointed to the full chair for water management, hydraulic engineering and cultural engineering at the TH Dresden as successor to Hubert Engels . Heiser fled to Bremen after the bombing in 1945, later he went to Hamburg and worked as a lecturer at the Hamburg State Building School from 1946 to 1949 until he retired. In 1958 he taught again at the TH Braunschweig .

Heiser was co-editor and editor-in-chief of the journal of the German Water Management and Hydropower Association , in the Central Association for German Inland Shipping , in the Transport Science Society, in the German Committee for Cultural Building, in the Reich Working Group for Spatial Research and, after the Second World War, in the Technical Committee of the North-South Canal Association . He was one of the most respected German university lecturers in hydraulic engineering and water management . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

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SURNAME Hoarse, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoarse, Heinrich Joachim Friedrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hydraulic engineer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Meppen
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1962
Place of death Bremen