Hermann Maier-Leibnitz
Hermann Maier-Leibnitz (born June 18, 1885 in Schorndorf as Hermann Maier; † August 11, 1962 in Stuttgart ) was a German professor of iron and industrial construction.
Life
Hermann Maier was the son of a town architect and a brother of Reinhold Maier . During his studies, he became a member of the fraternity Academic Society Sonderbund Stuttgart . Among other things, he studied with Emil Mörsch . Soon after his marriage to Marianne Leibnitz, he changed his last name to Maier-Leibnitz. At about the same time, he also changed jobs. If he had previously been employed by the Württemberg State Railways, he now worked at the Esslingen machine factory , where he received power of attorney in 1914 . In 1917 he received his doctorate in Stuttgart. Two years later, at the age of only 34, he became professor for statics of iron and industrial construction at the Technical University of Stuttgart .
In 1937, Hermann Maier-Leibnitz was excluded from the Reichsfachschaft for experts. During the period of reconstruction, he wrote a three-volume work on structural engineering, which was at times considered the standard work on structural engineering in the Federal Republic of Germany. He is considered to be one of the founders of the load bearing method , where he worked together with Gábor von Kazinczy . Another pioneer in this field was John Baker .
The marriage to Marianne Leibnitz had three children, the son Heinz (* 1911; † 2000) and the daughters Susanne (* 1913) and Magdalene (* 1916; † 1941) . The family lived first at Marktplatz 25 , then at Burgsteige 1 in Kaisheimer Pflegehof and later at Deffnerstraße 5 in Esslingen; In addition, Hermann Maier-Leibnitz and his brother Reinhold owned a holiday home in Arosa , where fellow scientists such as Niels Bohr , James Franck and Richard Courant often visited.
Honors
- 1955: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Rolf Fuhlrott: Maier-Leibnitz, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 699 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Hermann Maier-Leibnitz (1885–1962): Trailblazer of the industrial building of the classical modern , steel construction , Volume 74, 2005, Issue 8, P. 623–634
- Karl-Eugen Kurrer: The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 122f and p. 1027 (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9
Individual evidence
- ↑ Finding aid
- ↑ The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 49.
- ↑ Building information
- ↑ Here ( Memento of the original from December 6th, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. pictures of the family can be seen. The name of the youngest sister is given differently in different documents; however, in the family's obituary, she is called Magdalene instead of Magdalena.
- ↑ Article in the Esslinger Zeitung
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maier-Leibnitz, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maier, Hermann (birth name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German iron and industrial builder, university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schorndorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1962 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |