Hermann Beer
Hermann Beer (born September 6, 1905 in Graz ; † July 20, 1972 ibid) was an Austrian civil engineer.
Beer was the son of a teacher and went to school in Graz. He studied civil engineering at the TH Graz under Georg Kapsch and Karl Federhofer, among others . In 1929 he passed the second state examination and became assistant to Kapsch, whom he also followed in 1929 to the Technical University of Munich . From 1933 he went into the construction industry and was the first structural engineer in the steel construction department of Humboldt-Deutz in Cologne until 1936 and then until 1940 with the steel construction company J. Gollner in Stettinas chief engineer and head of the project department. His projects included the Berlin-Tempelhof airport, the large exhibition hall in Masurenallee in Berlin (as chief structural engineer), the festival hall on Rügen for 20,000 people, the unrealized project of a suspension bridge with a span of 750 m across the port of Hamburg (head of the scientific Department of the design office), a 450 m long motorway bridge over the Neandertal. In addition to his project work, he did his doctorate in 1937 at the TH Graz, completing the dissertation ( strength and stability analysis of the portals of open bridges ) in his free time at night. In 1940 he became an associate professor for structural engineering in Graz. During World War II he also worked for aircraft construction (several publications in the Junkers Reports). In 1946 he also became a professor for steel construction. In 1955 he handed over the professorship for statics to Ernst Chwalla , but remained a full professor for steel construction. From 1957 to 1959 he was dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and from 1960 to 1962 he was rector . He turned down appointments to Braunschweig, Stuttgart and Munich. After his death in 1972, his student and former assistant Fritz Resinger became his successor.
From 1949 to 1952 he was visiting professor at the University of Tucuman in Argentina. Since his time in Argentina, he has also dealt with surface structures and after his return expanded his chair for steel construction to include timber construction and surface structures.
In addition to his teaching activities, he was involved in many large construction projects. He advised on the design of a 70,000 t floating dock in Skaramanga , Greece , he prepared an expert opinion for the scaffolding of an 8.5 km long bridge over Lake Maracaibo , he advised on the design and examined the Europa-Brücke Tirol, the Wolfsgraben motorway bridge and Innsbruck Airport and he prepared an appraisal for a 1,300 m long bridge over the Brahmaputra .
He was a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Tucuman and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 1970 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Karlsruhe .
literature
- Hermann Grengg: o. Prof. Dip. Ing.Dr. techn. Hermann Beer, in: Hermann Grengg, Walter Pelikan , Friedrich Reinitzhuber (eds.): Steel construction and structural analysis: Current problems. Dedicated to Hermann Beer and Konrad Sattler on their 60th birthday, Springer 1965, pp. 1–4, google books
1. Chair for steel construction: Moritz Wappler (1846–1863) | Adolf Gabriely (1864-1893) | Josef Cecerle (1893–1919) | Georg Kapsch (1920–1929) | Franz Brunner (1930–1943) | Konrad Sattler (1944–1945) | Hermann Beer (1955–1972) | Friedrich Resinger (1974–1988) | Richard Pischl (1976-2004) | Richard Greiner (1981-2010) | Harald Unterweger (since 2011)
2. Chair for Roads and Transportation: Remigius Götz (1865–1866) | Karl Scheidtenberger (1866–1885) | Martin Kovatsch (1886-1894) | Emil Teischinger (1895–1921) | Valentin Köck (1921–1923) | Paul Döll (1924–1938) | Ernst Gottstein (1940–1945) | Alois Pendl (1946–1962) | Josef Raimund Dorfwirth (1964–1974) | Herbert Köstenberger (1974–1990) | Helmut Stickler (1995-2003) | Martin Fellendorf (since 2005)
3. Chair for structural engineering: Karl Stelzel (1876–1912) | Fritz Postuvanschitz (1913–1926) | Heinrich Leitz (1929–1930) | Heinrich Neukirch (1931–1939) | Hermann Beer (1940–1955) | Ernst Chwalla (1955–1960) | Konrad Sattler (1961–1975) | Peter Klement (1975–1993) | Gernot Beer (1993–2012) | Thomas-Peter Fries (since 2013)
4. Chair for hydraulic engineering and water management: Wilhelm Heyne (1876–1894) | Philipp Forchheimer (1894–1914) | Hans Paul (1915–1938) | Armin Schoklitsch (1939–1945) | Hermann Grengg (1950–1962) | Helmut Simmler (1964–1987) | Günther Heigerth (1989–2006) | Gerald Zenz (since 2007)
5. Chair for concrete construction: Robert Bortsch (1928–1941) | Hermann Craemer (1941–1945) | Erich Friedrich (1948–1966) | Fritz Bauer (1967–1980) | Richard Küng (1973–1994) | Adalbert Koberg (1981-1995) | Lutz Sparowitz (1994–2009) | Viet Tue Nguyen (since 2010)
6. Chair for Railways and Transport Economics: Paul Döll (1940–1943) | Erwin Massute (1943–1945) | Karl Klugar (1969–1982) | Klaus Rießberger (1984–2009) | Peter Veit (since 2010)
7. Chair for Urban Water Management and Landscaping: Max Breitenöder (1957–1964) | Ernst Nemecek (1965–1988) | Helmut Renner (1983–2000) | Harald Kainz (since 2001) | Dirk Muschalla (since 2012)
8. Chair for Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Numerical Geotechnics: Christian Veder (1964–1979) | Heinz Brandl (1979–1981) | Martin Fuchsberger (1982-1993) | Stephan Semprich (1993–2011) | Roman Marte (since 2012)
9. Chair for Building Construction: Fritz Reischl (1964–1981) | Horst Gamerith (1981-2006) | Peter Kautsch (2008–2019) | Oliver Englhardt (2010–2017) | Michael Monsberger (since 2016) | Christina Hopfe (since 2020)
10. Chair for Construction Management and Construction: Rudolf Aita (1970–1978) | Norbert Raaber (1981-1996) | Gert Stadler (1996-2006) | Hans Lechner (2002–2013) | Detlef Heck (since 2006) | Gottfried Mauerhofer (since 2013)
11. Chair for materials testing and building material technology: Helmut Geymayer (1980–2002) | Peter Maydl (since 2003) | Markus Krüger (since 2015)
12. Chair for building mechanics: Rudolf Greimel (1985–2004) | Martin Schanz (since 2005)
13. Chair for rock mechanics and tunnel construction: Wulf Schubert (1993–2018) | Thomas Marcher (since 2018)
14. Chair for structural engineering: Karl Kernbichler (1997-2004)
15. Chair for wood construction and wood technology: Gerhard Schickhofer (since 2004)
retired chair for building informatics: Ulrich Walder (2004–2013); retired chair for hydraulics and hydrology: Ferdinand Wehrschütz (1974–1995) | Heinz Bergmann (1975-2002)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beer, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1972 |
| Place of death | Graz |