Helmut Berger (mining engineer)

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Helmut Berger (born February 8, 1913 in Marienberg ; † September 5, 2010 in Leipzig ) was a German mining engineer and university professor.

Life

After graduating from high school, Helmut Berger studied mining at the Bergakademie Freiberg . In 1933 he became a member of the local Corps Saxo-Borussia . In 1938 he completed his studies as a Dipl.-Ing. from. He took part in the Second World War as a soldier in Norway, but was later released to do research at Osram AG. After he fell into French captivity in 1945, he was able to flee from Rennes to Germany. He initially worked for several years at the central design office of the metal industry in Leipzig as an engineer, most recently as head of the mining project planning department. As a non-party, he was appointed professor at the newly founded University of Civil Engineering in Leipzig on July 1, 1954 , where he received the chair for soil mechanics and foundation engineering and headed the institute for foundation engineering and subsoil mechanics . In 1978 he retired.

His main research areas were salt mining , ground anchors for air domes , the stability of silt heaps and open pit slopes, thermal parameters and processes in the subsoil, as well as interface chemistry and mineralogy of cohesive soils. He was a member of national and international specialist committees.

In 1951 he received the ribbon of the Corps Saxo-Montania zu Freiberg and Dresden in Aachen .

Fonts

  • Technical rock science . In: Brockhaus -‐ Taschenbuch der Geologie , 1961
  • Influences of the Method of Measurement on the Validity of Statistical Fissure Analyzes , 1966

literature

  • Adolf Berve, Herbert Dieter Nienhaus, Kurt Schröter, Gerhard Voigt, Karl Heinz Weber: Chronicle of the Corps Saxo-Montania zu Freiberg and Dresden in Aachen, Part II - Corps Saxo-Borussia Freiberg i. Sa. 1842–1935 (1951) , main section II, pp. 250, 310 (short biography and biographical data)
  • Andreas Berger: Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Helmut Berger . In: Marienbrunner CVs , pp. 47–48 web version

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personal data
SURNAME Berger, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mining engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienberg
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 2010
Place of death Leipzig