Heinz Muhs

Heinz Muhs (born September 19, 1911 in Berlin ; † November 29, 1990 presumably in Berlin) was a German civil engineer specializing in foundation engineering and soil mechanics .

Muhs studied civil engineering from 1930 to 1937 at the technical universities of Berlin-Charlottenburg and Munich . From 1937 he was a research assistant at the German Society for Soil Mechanics (Degebo) in Berlin, which was founded in 1928 , where he subsequently stayed. Muhs received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin in 1942 with his work at Degebo . Among other things, he was involved in measurements of the pressure of the concrete on formwork , which was important at the time for military construction projects such as submarine bunkers. After the head of Degebo R. Hoffmann had been interned by the Soviet occupation troops, Muhs took over the management of Degebo in 1945 after the Second World War. From 1949 he was already giving lectures on soil mechanical testing and was in charge of the training of civil engineering students at the TU Berlin in the laboratory. Under Muhs' direction, the major attempts to break the ground on the Degebo were continued after the Second World War; the current occasion was the reconstruction of Berlin on the old foundations that had still remained. Muhs and Edgar Schultze wrote a German-language standard work on geotechnical subsoil investigations, which first appeared in 1950 and then in a heavily revised form in 1967 by Springer, and was involved in the early development of pressure probing after the war at Degebo. Muhs always tried to incorporate Degebo's research into the DIN standards , where he sat on several technical committees - for this he received the DIN gold pin of honor in 1978. At the beginning of the 1950s he also produced a fully automated shear device . Muhs was director of Degebo until 1975 - interrupted only by a research stay in Australia in 1952/53, where he measured pore water pressures in a dam of the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Facility. His successor was Klaus Weiß .

He was married to Hanny Rohmann since 1941.

literature

• Heinz Muhs, Edgar Schultze : Soil studies for civil engineering. Springer Verlag 1950, 1967
• Festschrift of Degebo on the 65th birthday of Heinz Muhs, Mitteilungen der Degebo, Heft 32, 1976 (with list of publications and biography)
• Heinz Muhs: New findings on the load-bearing capacity of shallow foundations from large-scale tests and their significance for the calculation , building site conference 1968 and building technology 1969, p. 181
• Heinz Muhs: 55 years Degebo in Berlin. In: Geotechnics. Special issue for Degebo, 1985
• Heinz Muhs: soil investigations. In: Smoltzcyk (Ed.): Grundbau-Taschenbuch . 1966, Volume 1, as well as in the Grundbau-Taschenbuch from 1980 Subsoil investigations in the field
• Heinz Muhs: Experiments with bored piles. Bauverlag, Wiesbaden, 2nd edition 1967
• Klaus Weiß: 50 years Degebo 1928-1978. Communications from Degebo, No. 33, 1978
• Johann Christian Poggendorff (founder): Biographical-literary concise dictionary of the exact sciences . Volume VIIa, part 3, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1959, pp. 382–383 (with list of works); Volume VIII, Part 3, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2004, p. 1945

Individual evidence

1. ↑ He died in an internment camp in 1946