Horst Averbeck

Horst Bernhard Hartwig Raimund Julius Otto Averbeck (born September 27, 1900 in Jena , † September 13, 1986 in Kaltenbrunn , Upper Palatinate ) was a German mining entrepreneur, businessman and inventor. He is considered a pioneer in the development of joints in German concrete road construction.

Life

As a three-day-old baptized person, he was made an academic honorary citizen of the University of Jena ("Civis academicus Jenensis honoris causa") on September 30, 1900 at the instigation of the secret medical council Professor Otto Binswanger . According to the foundation's decree, this dignity could only be awarded once at the turn of the century. He received his high school education at the Kreuzgasse high school in Cologne and the Carolo-Alexandrinum high school in Jena , which he left after completing primary school to join the Imperial German Navy in July 1918 as a sea officer candidate, where he last worked as a midshipman on the liner "SMS Silesia ”was. After the end of the First World War he joined the Freicorps Paulssen , in June 1919 the (II.) / 2nd Marine Brigade "Ehrhardt" and a little later the (III.) / 3rd Marine Brigade "von Loewenfeld", and was u. a. Used as part of the border protection in Upper Silesia under the command of the 1st Storm Battalion of this Marine Brigade, Lieutenant Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière . In 1920 he was discharged from the Navy in the rank of ensign zS. After graduating from secondary school in Saalfeld / Thuringia in 1921, he studied economics in Munich , Jena and Würzburg . In Munich he was active (most recently as a 2nd charged) in the Corps Frankonia , from which he resigned as a result of the non-approval of a claim party. In 1924 he was promoted to Dr. rer. pole. PhD in Würzburg.

After training from 1924 to 1928 at the Berlin bank J. Dreyfus & Co. and at the North German Cement Association (NCV) in Halle , Hamburg and Berlin , he was appointed at the instigation of the bank manager of J. Dreyfus & Co., Willy Dreyfus (1885 –1977), the grandson of the founder of the bank Jacques Dreyfus (1826–1890), appointed to the management of Thurvia-Baugesellschaft mbH in Berlin. With this he built the first concrete roads in Berlin a. a. in the Ruhleben settlement and at Tempelhof Airport . During this time he developed special patented techniques for the production of joints in concrete ceilings. After leaving the Thurvia construction company, he joined Berliner Asphaltgesellschaft Kopp & Cie AG in Berlin in 1932 as in-house counsel and chairman of the board of directors . In 1939 he was drafted into the German Navy and was released in 1940 to run his business in the Sudetenland . At the beginning of 1939 he began to acquire shares in the Emanuel mines in Serbitz and Karbitz . After the purchase of the Elbe pit fields and the remaining shares in the Emanuel mines , the Teplitz-Mariascheiner brown coal mines "Emanuel" Averbeck & Co. was founded in Serbitz in 1941 , in which he held the function of managing, personally liable partner.

After the expulsion and loss of his company as a result of expropriation without compensation in May 1945, he founded a coal wholesaler in Regensburg in 1948 and later in Kaltenbrunn / Upper Palatinate as a general partnership. He dissolved the latter company in 1981 for reasons of age. In the early 1960s, he developed one of the first transportable, collapsible warning triangles in Germany. However, he was unable to continue this development due to frequently changing implementation provisions, previously inconsistent legal regulations and personal economic constraints. In 1964 he founded the Dr. H. Averbeck KG, AFU inserts for expansion joints in Weiden idOPf. During this time he developed new processes in the field of joint production in concrete ceilings, both for cut space and dummy joints and for vibrated joints in fresh concrete ceilings.

These patented developments were declared economically valuable by the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Transport in 1969 . The Federal Ministry of Economics confirmed this declaration in November 1969. At the 19th International Inventors' Fair in Brussels in 1970 , Averbeck was awarded the bronze medal for the stabilized neoprene joint insert. Averbeck was the first-born son of the future President of the German Cement Association (DZB), Bernhard Averbeck . He was married to Ingeborg geb. Dominik (1920–2015), granddaughter of royal Prussia. Corps horse doctor and technical director of the military training forge in Berlin , Friedrich Dominik .

Journal articles (selection)

• Maintenance-free joint inserts for concrete ceilings in accordance with Patent application by Dr.H.Averbeck; in: Straßen- und Tiefbau 17 (1966), issue 11
• Stabilized rubber (neoprene) insert for the immediate creation of maintenance-free joints in fresh concrete ceilings; in: Straße und Autobahn 30 (1969), issue 6
• Stabilized neoprene insert; in: Bauwirtschaft 28 (1974), issue 25/26
• Joint inserts with resilient head piece for fresh concrete ceilings; in: Straße, Brücke, Tunnel 26 (1974), issue 12, p. 310ff
• Prefabricated profiles made of neoprene for joints in concrete ceilings; in: Straßen- und Tiefbau 30 (1976), issue 8, p. 12ff

Patents, utility models (selection)

• Method of making joints in concrete roads;

German Reich Patent Office, No. 559 051 of June 1, 1929

• Arrangement for recessing joints in concrete streets or in concrete fields;

German Reich Patent Office, No. 884 209 of October 30, 1942, announced June 11, 1953

• Arrangement of joints in concrete ceilings,

German Reich Patent Office, No. 803 209 of October 30, 1942, announced August 3, 1953

• Transportable, flat collapsible traffic sign (warning triangle "ARIFO"),

German Patent Office, utility model, No. 1 811 342 from May 12, 1960

• Transportable, flat collapsible traffic sign (warning triangle "ARIFO" type B2),

German Patent Office, utility model, No. 1 859 990 of October 11, 1962

• Joint inlay and method of making joints,

German Patent Office, No. 1 409 785.9 of October 23, 1962

• Insert for joints in concrete roads or the like.,

German Patent Office, No. 1 863 234 of December 6, 1962

• Joint insert for joints in concrete for streets and squares, concrete joints and vibrating screeds for vibrating core pieces to create joints in the concrete,

German Patent Office, No. 1 459 667.9 of May 12, 1964

• Transportable, foldable road sign,

Patent Kaiserreich Japan, No. 719 676 from May 29, 1964

• Procedimento per la produione di giuntature di calce struzzo e di inserti chiusura a teunta di elasticita permanente per le medesime,

Patent Republic of Italy, No. 799 967 of February 14, 1966

• Insert for filling joints that have been vibrated in fresh concrete ceilings,

German Patent Office, utility model, No. 6 813 696 of July 17, 1969

• Stabilized rubber (neoprene) insert for the immediate creation of maintenance-free joints in concrete ceilings,

German Patent Office, No. 1 817656.2 of July 23, 1970

Literature (selection)

• German Gender Book, Volume 167, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg 1974
• Who is who? The German Who's Who, XXV. Edition, Lübeck 1986
• Who is who in Germany, 5th edition, Berlin 1986
• Who is who in Germany, 6th ed., Ottobrunn 1976
• Who is who in Europe, 5th edition, Waterloo / Belgium 1983
• Who is who in the World, 6th edition 1982–1983, Chicago / USA 1982
• Siegfried Bock: Pioneer in Concrete Road Construction, in: Der neue Tag, Oberpfälzischer Kurier, No. 212 v. Sept. 16, 1986
• Dr. Horst Averbeck 75 years old, in: Beton 25 (1975), issue 10, Düsseldorf 1975