Helmut Maak

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Helmut Maak (born July 7, 1930 in Zauchtel ) is a German civil engineer . As head of the Bundesbahn department, among other things, he managed the construction of the southern section of the high-speed line from Hanover to Würzburg . In 1990 he was appointed first honorary professor by the Regensburg University of Applied Sciences , where he taught from 1961 to 1997 .

Career

Maak studied civil engineering at the TH Munich until 1956 , where he then worked at the chair and institute for railway and road construction. Until 1959, the preparatory service as a construction trainee followed at the Federal Railway Directorate in Munich and then the employment in the Federal Railway Service at the Federal Railway Directorate in Regensburg. From 1959 to 1968 he worked at the Passau and Regensburg Works Offices of the Deutsche Bundesbahn with the conversion and expansion of stations and routes as well as the renewal of large railway bridges. From 1968 to 1973 he was level crossing and civil engineering line manager at the Federal Railway Directorate in Regensburg .

From 1961 to March 1997 Helmut Maak taught at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Regensburg, initially earthworks and foundation engineering , later railway construction .

From 1973 to 1978 he was the project manager for the new lines at the Federal Railway Directorate in Nuremberg . His tasks included the planning and implementation of the 83 km long southern section of the new Hanover – Würzburg line, the upgraded Aschaffenburg – Gemünden line and the later Nantenbacher curve .

From 1978 he headed the project group H / W South of the railway construction center at the Federal Railway Directorate in Nuremberg. During the construction of the high-speed line from Hanover to Würzburg, he was responsible for the southern section between 1973 and 1985 as sub-project manager. His responsibilities were bridges like the Sinntal bridge Zeitlofs that Maintal Bridge Veitshöchheim , the Maintal bridge Gemünden and Leinachtalbrücke . The Landrückentunnel (10,779 m) was the longest tunnel in Germany to date (as of 2012). When the Sinnberg tunnel - the first tunnel stop on the route - was attacked on February 25, 1981, his wife Sonja-Maria Maak, with whom he has been married since 1956, triggered the first blast as a tunnel godmother with the push of a button.

In 1985 Maak was appointed head of the structural engineering department at the headquarters of the Deutsche Bundesbahn. Manfred Weibrecht temporarily took over Maak's successor as construction manager in the southern section.

From 1989 until his retirement in 1993, Maak was involved in the planning for the expansion of the railway-Alpine transversal on the Brenner and the fixed Fehmarn-Belt connection ( bird flight line ) as a representative of the board of directors of DB and as managing director of the Deutsche-Brenner-Tunnel-Projektgesellschaft .

Maak is a member of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) and lives in Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate .

Honors

On January 13, 1987, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Wuppertal .
On September 12, 2010 he was awarded the Ritter von Gerstner Medal of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft .

Fonts (selection)

  • The tunnel construction . In: Gerd Lottes (Ed.): On new rails through Spessart and Rhön . Hans-Christians Druckerei, Hamburg, 1992, without ISBN, ( Nature and Technology , Volume 6) pp. 45–52.
  • The new federal railway line between Main and Spessart (southern section Hannover – Würzburg) . In: Internationales Verkehrwesen , Volume 36 (1984), Issue 2 (March / April), pp. 126–132, ISSN  0020-9511 .
  • The second technical challenge . In: Gerd Lottes (Ed.): On new rails through Spessart and Rhön . Hans-Christians Druckerei, Hamburg, 1992, without ISBN, ( Nature and Technology , Volume 6) pp. 27–32.
  • Contemporary rail tunnel, tunnel construction in the southern section of the new Hanover – Würzburg line . In: DB Bahnbauzentrale Frankfurt / M. (Ed.): Railway construction for the 21st century: line expansion at the Deutsche Bundesbahn . Frankfurt am Main, approx. 1984, pp. 30-38.
  • Earthworks, rock structures and tunnels, the main cost bearers for the substructure of traffic routes . In: Die Bundesbahn , issue 7/1988, ISSN  0007-5876 .
  • Design and integration of the bridges over the long term . In: Gerd Lottes (Ed.): On new rails through Spessart and Rhön . Hans-Christians Druckerei, Hamburg, 1992, without ISBN, ( Nature and Technology , Volume 6) pp. 69–82.
  • Design and landscape integration of engineering structures on the new lines of the Deutsche Bundesbahn. In: Concrete and reinforced concrete construction. Issue 2, 1986.
  • New Hanover – Würzburg line, start of construction in the southern section . In: The Federal Railroad . Vol. 57, No. 10, 1981, ISSN  0007-5876 , pp. 801-806.
  • Planning, tendering and awarding of the main valley bridge Veitshöchheim . In: Beton- und Stahlbetonbau , Vol. 82, 1987, pp. 201-206 (together with Gerd Naumann, Fritz Leonhardt, and Dietrich Hommel).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Congratulations on your birthday . In: Technik in Bayern , Issue 4/2010 ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 925 kB), p. 22. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / technik-in-bayern.de
  2. ↑ Congratulations! . In: Die Welt (online edition), July 15, 2007.
  3. ↑ a b c 29th Cool Trader Landscape Meeting in Ludwigsburg (PDF; 270 kB), accessed on February 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ Table of contents Wagstädter Heimat (PDF; 323 kB)
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Claus Jürgen Diederichs : Laudation . In: Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Faculty of Structural Engineering (Ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of the award of an honorary doctorate to Dipl.-Ing. Helmut Maak . Wuppertal, 1987, ISBN 3-925795-41-3 , pp. 9-13.
  6. ↑ a b University of Regensburg, Prof. Dr.-Ing. E. h. Helmut Maak ( Memento of the original dated September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oth-regensburg.de
  7. ↑ a b The new Hanover – Würzburg line . In: Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau , Volume 28, 1979, Issue 10, pp. 725-734.
  8. ^ Helmut Maak: The draft of the new Hanover - Würzburg line, section of the Hessian / Bavarian border - Würzburg . In: Die Bundesbahn , year 53 (1977), issue 12, pp. 883-893, ISSN  0007-5876 .
  9. ^ Alfred Kunz GmbH & Co. (Ed.): 1982 . Munich, approx. 100 A4 pages, 1982, pp. 4–5.
  10. ↑ Of great importance for Franconia . In: Aschaffenburger Volksblatt , September 30, 1982.
  11. ↑ The tunnel sponsor triggered a symbolic final demolition at the push of a button . In: Mainpost Würzburg , August 29, 1985.
  12. ↑ Helmut Maak: Words of thanks . In: Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Faculty of Structural Engineering (Ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of the award of an honorary doctorate to Dipl.-Ing. Helmut Maak . Wuppertal, 1987, ISBN 3-925795-41-3 , pp. 14-18.
personal data
SURNAME Maak, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil and railway engineer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Zauchtel