Hermann Proetel

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Hermann Proetel (born October 11, 1876 in Langenfeld , Brandenburg province, † October 3, 1956 in Haaren ) was a German civil engineer and university professor for seaport and canal construction.

Life

After finishing school, the son of a farmer studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Charlottenburg from 1895 to 1901 . After successfully completing the main diploma examination and first various activities as part of his legal clerkship , he was employed by the Stralsund district government in 1905 after passing the state examination and being appointed government builder ( assessor ) . Here he was initially responsible as site manager for various coastal protection measures on Rügen and the neighboring islands. In 1908 he was entrusted with the management of the new port construction works for the Sassnitz ferry port when the port had to be redesigned for the purpose of the new railway ferry connection , the royal line to Trelleborg . After completing this work, Proetel moved in 1912 as a department head to the Upper Presidium of the Province of West Prussia in Gdansk and a year later as head of the bridge construction office in Magdeburg . During the First World War , Proetel also had to take up military service and was awarded the War Merit Cross, First Class , for his work. He then returned to Magdeburg, where he was entrusted with other important tasks as a government building officer of the Prussian hydraulic engineering administration and as a member of the board of the Magdeburg Waterways Office. Among other things, he was responsible for the planning and execution of the construction of the Magdeburg Sternbrücke , which resulted in many difficulties.

On April 1, 1922, Proetel accepted a call at the Technical University of Aachen , where, after completing his habilitation, he taught as a professor of waterways engineering and foundation engineering, with the main areas of work being sea ​​and seaport construction and the development of water-saving ship locks . In addition, he was a member of the Aachen Canal Construction Association, which entrusted him with the planning of the Rhine-Maas Canal , which, however, was never realized for political reasons. In the last years of the Second World War , Proetel was appointed from 1943 together with Peter Mennicken , Robert Hans Wentzel , Hans Mehrtens and Robert Roessing as a member of the Working Group for Spatial Planning under Hermann Roloff, which, on behalf of the secret organization Mittelstelle für Heimatschutz, had the possibility of one The university was supposed to expand the responsibilities of the university to the still occupied western neighboring countries, which was done only a few months later due to the liberation of these countries by the Allies.

Nearly two years after the war Proetel was on January 1, 1947 emeritus and on 26 June 1956 nor to honorary citizen appointed the RWTH Aachen.

Fonts

  • Sea and sea port construction. Julius Springer, Berlin 1921.
  • (with Otto Franzius ): The water management expansion of the Rur (Roer) in the northern Eifel. Hamel, Düren 1927.
  • Design and manufacture of newer underwater tunnels. Werner-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1948.

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SURNAME Proetel, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Proetel, Hermann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and university professor, specialist in seaport and canal construction
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenfeld , Brandenburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 1956
Place of death Hair