Herbert Grubinger

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Herbert Grubinger (born September 11, 1922 in Vienna ; † June 16, 2018 in Carinthia ) was an Austrian cultural and hydraulic engineer . From 1961 to 1988 he was associate professor of agricultural engineering , especially for technical culture hydraulic engineering at the ETH Zurich .

Life

Herbert Grubinger grew up in Vienna- Hernals , where he also attended schools and graduated from high school . In 1941 he began studying cultural engineering at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna . Interrupted by military service in World War II , he graduated with a diploma in 1947. After several years of practical engineering activity, he returned to BOKU in 1950 and received his doctorate in soil culture in 1951 (Dr. rer. Nat. Techn.). He then studied at the Vienna University of Geology and a PhD here for Dr. phil. In 1955 he completed his habilitation at BOKU, which made his appointment as a lecturer possible. In 1961 he was appointed full professor of cultural engineering at the ETH Zurich as successor to Ernst Tanner, where he remained until his retirement in 1988. In addition, he read at BOKU on selected chapters of cultural technology in tropical and subtropical zones until 1992.

He was Vice President of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) based in New Delhi , co-editor of the magazine for cultural technology and land consolidation, founding member of the international research association Interprävent and the Swiss Society of Engineers and Biology , as well as a delegate of the state governments of the cantons of Valais and Aargau for the water management of Aletsch and the Reuss Valley - melioration as well as one of the official technical experts of the highest water authority in Austria. For his work on the preservation of the Danube as a free stretch of river in the Wachau in Lower Austria and on the water management of the irrigation of the Lower Austrian Marchfeld he was awarded by the Austrian federal government.

Herbert Grubinger lived in Vienna, Zurich and Köstenberg in Velden am Wörther See and died in June 2018 at the age of 95.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • 1970: Agricultural amelioration: teaching and manual for school and practice , together with Karl Hunkeler and Ernst Tanner, Swiss Association of Engineer-Agronomists, Bern 1970
  • 1986: Water regulation, water maintenance: near-natural development and maintenance of rivers , edited by Gerd Lange and Kurt Lecher, Parey-Verlag, Hamburg / Berlin, ISBN 978-3-490-17716-2 , 3rd revised and expanded edition 1993, ISBN 978 -3-490-17916-6
  • 2002: Treasure of water and the Marchfeld Canal lifeline: 10 years of flooding the Marchfeld Canal - beginning of groundwater management , published by Wolfgang Neudorfer, Marchfeld Canal Operating Company (Deutsch-Wagram), ISBN 978-3-900827-11-3
  • 2015: Basic knowledge of cultural building technology and land restructuring: planning, evaluation, use and protection of our living spaces for planners, cultural building and environmental engineers , Verlag Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-510-65294-5

literature

  • R. Küntzel, F. Zollinger : Prof. i. R. Herbert Grubinger on his 80th birthday , in: Vermessung, Photogrammetrie, Kulturtechnik (VPK) , Volume 100 (2002), Issue 9, Swiss Association for Geomatics and Land Management, doi : 10.5169 / seals-235929

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b In Memoriam Prof. Herbert Grubinger: Univ. Prof. iR Dipl.-Ing. GDR. Herbert Grubinger 1922 - 2018: An obituary . Retrieved September 10, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b NZZ: Herbert Grubinger obituary . Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  3. ↑ ETH Zurich: Grubinger, Herbert, Prof. Dr. . Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b c R. Küntzel, F. Zollinger: Prof. i. R. Herbert Grubinger for the 80th . Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  5. ↑ Basic knowledge of cultural building technology and land restructuring, curriculum vitae . Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  6. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved June 26, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Grubinger, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cultural and hydraulic engineer
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2018
Place of death Carinthia