Hellmut Homberg

Hellmut Homberg (born September 5, 1909 in Barmen ; † July 7, 1990 in Hagen ) was a German civil engineer .

Life

Hellmut Homberg came from an entrepreneurial family. He studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt , the Technical University of Hanover and the Technical University of Berlin . His teachers included August Hertwig and Franz Dischinger . He completed his studies as the best of his year at TH Berlin. He then worked for two years at the chair for foundation engineering, hydraulic engineering and port engineering under Arnold Agatz and received his doctorate in 1938 with a thesis on the calculation of cantilever dams . In the same year he became a private engineering firm independently .

In the following years, the main focus of his professional activity was bridge building. Homberg participated in the competition, design and execution of a large number of cable-stayed bridges , both in Germany and abroad. He developed and used for the first time multi-rope inclined tensioning in one plane, in the central axis. In addition, he also wrote some theoretical works and associated tables, which were among the standard works for the dimensioning of bridges. In particular, his investigations into prestressed concrete slab beams without cross girders made him known in the specialist world.

Bridge structures

• 1952: Rhine bridge Cologne-Rodenkirchen , reconstruction with 40% less steel
• 1959: Blombachtal bridge
• 1963: Norderelbbrücke
• 1965: Leverkusen bridge over the Rhine
• 1965: Emmerich bridge over the Rhine
• 1967: Rhine bridge Bonn-North
• 1967: Rees-Kalkar bridge over the Rhine
• 1969: Pont Masséna , Paris
• 1978: Godsheide Albert Canal Bridge, Belgium
• 1978: Neuwied bridge over the Rhine
• 1982: Kessock Bridge , Scotland
• 1986: Annacis Island Bridge , Vancouver
• 1987: Rama IX Bridge (Chao Phraya Bridge), Bangkok
• 1991: Queen Elizabeth II Bridge ( Dartford Crossing ) - Thames Bridge , Dartford

The Rodenkirchen motorway bridge and the Emmerich Rhine bridge are suspension bridges , the Blombachtal bridge is a reinforced concrete arch bridge, the remaining structures are cable-stayed bridges.

literature

• Klaus Stiglat : Civil engineers and their work. Ernst & Sohn , Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-433-01665-8 , p. 189.
• Karl-Eugen Kurrer , Eberhard Pelke and Klaus Stiglat: Unity of science and art in bridge building: Hellmut Homberg (1909-1990) - Life and Work (Part I) . In: Bautechnik , Volume 86, 2009, Issue 10, pp. 847–655.
• Karl-Eugen Kurrer, Eberhard Pelke and Klaus Stiglat: Unity of science and art in bridge building: Hellmut Homberg (1909–1990) - His contribution to the theory of bridge building (Part II) . In: Bautechnik, Volume 86, 2009, Issue 12, pp. 794–809.
• Karl-Eugen Kurrer, Eberhard Pelke and Klaus Stiglat: Hellmut Homberg (1909–1990) - The Work (Part III) . In: Bautechnik, Volume 87, 2010, Issue 2, pp. 86–115.
• Karl-Eugen Kurrer: The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst and Sohn 2018, p. 605ff and p. 1008 (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9