Heinz Sossenheimer

Heinz Sossenheimer (born October 4, 1924 in Wiesbaden ; † July 8, 2006 in Neuss ) was a German civil engineer and publisher.

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After the end of the war, Heinz Sossenheimer completed a civil engineering degree at the TH Darmstadt , where he worked as an assistant to Kurt Klöppel at the chair for statics and steel construction until the first half of the 1950s .

During his time as an assistant, Sossenheimer worked for the editorial team of the Stahlbau magazine . From 1952 to 1958 he made numerous contributions to the specialist public, especially in the field of welding technology, as Kurt Klöppel named welding technology general denominator for engineering in 1955 in an article for the journal Schweiß und Schneid . In the same year the German Association for Welding and Allied Processes was founded . (DVS) established a subsidiary with DVS-Verlag in Düsseldorf, which Heinz Sossenheimer was to join in 1956 as editor of the magazine Schweiß und Schneid. Before that he worked with Kurt Klöppel (co-speaker: Professor Udo Wegner ) with the thesis Recursive calculation of β-values ​​for highly statically indeterminate systems. Using the theory of statically indeterminate main systems determination of the β matrix at Darmstadt to the doctor engineer PhD . The excerpts in the journal The steel structure published in 1957 dissertation from today's perspective to the history of the Structural important insofar as they the statically indeterminate Computing consistently based on the matrix algebra formalized and thus for computer programming preformed .

At the end of the 1950s, Sossenheimer's professional activity shifted from the further development of structural engineering to technical and scientific joint work in the field of welding technology. Together with the professor for welding technology Helmut Koch he advanced to the position of editor-in-chief of welding and cutting , and in 1959 he became an executive member of the DVS and managing director of the DVS publishing house. A year later he founded the supplement of the practitioners to welding and cutting ; Since 1965, the Praktiker has been published as an independent magazine with Helmut Koch and Heinz Sossenheimer as editors. From Sossenheimer's keynote lecture Promotion of Welding Research and Development - Partnership of State, Business and Science at the Great Welding Conference from September 29 to October 1, 1965 in Essen , decisive impulses for the establishment of the research association "Welding and Cutting" of the DVS came from Management he took over. In Sossenheimer's keynote speech and the founding of the research association "Welding and Cutting", the integration of the six areas of action of science and administration-related association policy, science and industrial policy and administrative and industrial science of the triad of science, industry and administration - as the norm-setting form of socialization for the Technical-scientific joint work par excellence - almost ideal in the field of welding technology. This clear insight and its consistent implementation in social practice is the greatest achievement of Heinz Sossenheimer as a science manager in welding technology.

But Heinz Sossenheimer was also very successful in the field of international cooperation. He was treasurer of the International Welding Association (IIW) and chairman of its publications work group ; In 1974 he initiated the founding of the European Council for Cooperation in Welding Technology from which the European Welding Federation emerged ; Publication of an English-language edition of the journal Schweiß und Schneid ; 1981 the translation of the technical articles into the Chinese language, as well as 1985 the edition of the magazine International Welding Engineering also in Chinese language.

In 1987 the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Dortmund awarded him the title of Dr.-Ing. In recognition of his services to welding technology. Honestly. In 1990, Heinz Sossenheimer was able to receive the award for German steel construction awarded every two years by the German Steel Construction Association (DSTV). The reason for this said: "In recognition of his groundbreaking research work that emerged from steel construction and the joint research he initiated in the national and international field, with which he developed welding into the leading joining technology". At the DVS ceremony on October 18, 1991, Heinz Sossenheimer was bid farewell and the DVS plaque awarded him the highest honor that DVS can bestow.

literature

• K. Middeldorf: Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E. h. Heinz Sossenheimer died. In: Schweiß und Schneid 58th Vol. (2006), H. 8, S. V46.
• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Heinz Sossenheimer died. In: Stahlbau 75th vol. (2006), H. 10, pp. 869-870.

proof

1. ^ Klöppel, K .: Welding technology as the general denominator of engineering . Welding and cutting 7 (1955), H. 12, pp. 485-488.
2. ↑ Trade journal for welding, cutting and soldering technology. DVS Media, accessed on July 30, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Sossenheimer, H .: Recursive calculation of β values ​​for highly statically indeterminate systems. Determination of the β matrix using the theory of the statically indeterminate main systems . Der Stahlbau 26 (1957), H. 7, pp. 195-202 u. H. 8, pp. 220-225
4. ^ Kurrer, K.-E .: The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium . Berlin: Ernst & Sohn 2018, pp. 832–845. ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .