Heinz Graßhoff

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Heinz Graßhoff , also Grasshoff, (born April 22, 1915 in Bremervörde ; † April 1, 2002 in Bremen ) was a German civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering.

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Graßhoff was the son of an officer and after graduating from high school in 1934 studied at the Kleist-Gymnasium in Berlin and from the winter semester 1934/35 at the TH Danzig civil engineering, interrupted from military service from 1936 to 1938. During the Second World War he was called up to the pioneers temporarily continued his studies at the TH Berlin as part of the engineer-officer-academy) and seriously wounded in August 1941 as a platoon leader in Russia (a lower leg was amputated). He continued his studies at the TH Stuttgart, graduating in 1943, where he specialized in civil engineering and hydraulic engineering. Then he was assistant to Wilhelm Loos at the TH Berlin (earthworks institute) until the end of the war . In 1945 he spent a few months in a pioneer road construction unit under English management in Schleswig-Holstein. Afterwards he was head of the statics department in the building supervision office in Bremen and from 1946 he set up a basic construction laboratory as a lecturer at the building and engineering school in Bremen. In 1949 he received his doctorate at the TH Hannover (measurements of the dynamic resistance on model piles in sandy soils and investigations into its regularity). In 1951 he became a state building officer. In 1954 he went to the State Engineering School for Construction in Wuppertal (later Bergische Universität Wuppertal ), where he also set up a foundation laboratory. In 1965 he became senior building officer, 1970 building director and 1973 professor. In 1979 he retired. He was very active in seminars for further training of engineers at the Technical Academy in Wuppertal .

He published especially about elastic shallow foundations, earth pressure calculations, sheet pile wall calculations and horizontal loads on piles.

He was an honorary member of the German Society for Geotechnics and in several standards committees and working groups of the German Society for Earthworks and Foundation Engineering.

Fonts

  • with Peter Siedek , Georg Kübler: Erd- und Grundbau, 4 volumes, Werner Verlag 1965
  • with Peter Siedek, Rudolf Floss : Handbuch Erd- und Grundbau, 2 volumes, Werner Verlag 1982,
  • with Wilhelm Loos: Small subsoil theory, Cologne-Braunsfeld: R. Müller, 1955, 2nd edition 1963
  • Calculation of elastic surface foundations , in: Grundbau-Taschenbuch , Ernst, 1966

literature

  • Bernhard Walz, Matthias Pulsfort, Manfred Kany: Professor Dr.-Ing. Heinz Graßhoff passed away, Geotechnik, Volume 25, 2002, No. 2, p. 79

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information partly based on Marc Zirlewagen, Biographical Lexicon of the Associations of German Students 2014
personal data
SURNAME Graßhoff, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grasshoff, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer for geotechnical engineering
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremervörde
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2002
Place of death Bremen