Hermann Uhlfelder

Hermann Uhlfelder (born June 3, 1867 , † January 2, 1949 ) was a German architect and chief building officer of Frankfurt am Main .

life and work

Uhlfelder was head of the port and bridge construction department in Frankfurt am Main from 1900 to 1932. During his tenure, among other things, the Frankfurt Osthafen , located in the Ostend district, was built . To commemorate this, the city of Frankfurt named a street in the Osthafen to Uhlfelder.

In addition to his work in the building administration of the city of Frankfurt am Main, Uhlfelder was also a founding member and managing director of the association for the preparation of the Hamburg-Frankfurt-Basel motorway ( HaFraBa for short ). A year before the association was founded, Uhlfelder traveled to Italy with Willy Hof and found out about the car-only train designed by Piero Puricelli . The knowledge gained at this time had a major impact on the planning and construction of motorways in the German Empire and thereafter.

Uhlfelder was married to Adelheide Seligman (marriage in 1900).

Works

• German trunk road network , 1930
• Northern Italian motorways , 1930
• Uhlfelder, Blum: Sharp criticism of the memorandum of the study society for the financing of German road construction , 1930
• Guidelines for the tech. Construction of motorways A. Routes in the lowlands (with fig.) , 1931
• Paths, roads, highways , 1931
• Guidelines for the tech. Construction of motorways B. Stations (with fig.) , 1931
• Guidelines for the tech. Construction of motorways C. Junctions and crossings (m. Ill.) , 1931

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DER SPIEGEL 45/1990
2. ↑ Origins and history of the Autobahn ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2013 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.