Heinrich Spangenberg (engineer)
Heinrich Spangenberg (born January 5, 1879 in Pirna , † May 1, 1936 in Munich ) was a German civil engineer.
Life
Spangenberg was born to Katharine Sophie and Julius Spangenberg. In 1888 the family moved to Dresden . There he attended the secondary school and then studied civil engineering at the TH Dresden . In 1902 he completed his studies with a diploma. He then worked as a government construction manager for the Saxon State Railways . From 1906 to 1920 he worked for the concrete construction company Dykerhoff & Widmann in Dresden, later in Berlin and Leipzig ; In 1907 he was appointed to the company's board of directors. Industrial plants, bridges and prestigious high-rise buildings were built under his direction, for example the four-track Rosenstein Bridge over the Neckar near Bad Cannstatt, the garrison church in Ulm and the reception hall of Karlsruhe Central Station .
In 1913 Spangenberg married Elisabeth West; the couple had two sons. In 1920 he became professor for reinforced concrete and solid bridge construction at the Technical University of Munich . Here Spangenberg also became a member of the civil engineering committee of the emergency community of German science . His bridge constructions became particularly well-known, for example the Lechtal bridge near Augsburg, the Danube bridge in Ulm and the Echelsbach bridge over the Ammer, which was considered one of the most widely spanned reinforced concrete arch bridges in Germany until the 1960s. The reinforced concrete construction method for bridges invented by the Viennese professor Joseph Melan was further developed by Spangenberg, a process that was named after them "Melan-Spangenberg process". Because of a critical remark about the SA and SS Spangenberg was denounced and in 1935 subjected to disciplinary proceedings. He was also the victim of several intrigues and, in the terminology of the National Socialists, was considered to be "Jewish misfits", since three of his wife's four grandparents belonged to the Israelite religious community. In the fall of 1933 Spangenberg collapsed and fell ill with depression; In 1936 he committed suicide. Spangenberg's widow was denied all pension claims; Subjected to persistent harassment because of her Jewish origins, she also committed suicide in 1939.
Honors
In 1930 he received an honorary doctorate from the TH Darmstadt.
In 2010, Wolfgang A. Herrmann , President of the Technical University of Munich, remembered Spangenberg and the harassed mechanical engineering professor Christian Prinz in a speech.
literature
- Knut Stegmann: Spangenberg, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 625 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Heinrich Spangenberg . In: Karin Orth : Expulsion from the science system. Commemorative book for the committee members of the DFG expelled under National Socialism , Stuttgart: Steiner 2018 (Contributions to the History of the German Research Foundation; 7), pp. 363–373. ISBN 978-3-515-11953-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Spangenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Heinrich Spangenberg. In: Structurae
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Eggemann u. Karl-Eugen Kurrer : On the international Propagation of the Melan Arch System since 1892 . In: Proceedings of the IIIrd International Congress on Construction History , Vol. 2. Edited by K.-E. Kurrer, W. Lorenz, V. Wetzk, pp. 517-525 (here: p. 520). Berlin: NEUNPLUS1 Verlag + Service GmbH 2009, ISBN 978-3-936033-31-1 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Hermann; Winfried Nerdinger: The Technical University of Munich under National Socialism , TUM.University Press Munich 2018, p. 90 ff.
- ↑ The Technical University of Munich during the Nazi era (pdf)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spangenberg, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pirna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1936 |
| Place of death | Munich |