Hubert Engels (engineer)

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Hubert Heinrich Engels (born January 25, 1854 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † October 30, 1945 in Jena ) was a German hydraulic engineer and university professor .

Life

Hubert Engels was born as the son of the music director Hubert Engels and his English wife Laura Howell in Mülheim an der Ruhr. From 1874 to 1877 he studied civil engineering at the Berlin Bauakademie and the TH Munich and then worked as a site manager, among other things, in the expansion of the port of Kiel . Under Ludwig Franzius , he worked on the expansion of the Bremen port and later went to Pillau and Memel to help develop the ports there. During his studies he became a member of the Academic Association Motiv .

In 1888 he was appointed professor of hydraulic engineering at the TH Braunschweig and two years later went to the TH Dresden . After the first test facilities in Gustav Zeuner's laboratory , Hubert Engels received permission in 1897 to build the first “river construction research institute”, which was opened a year later in the university building on Bismarckplatz. Among other things, water movements in the course of the river and the effects of water currents on the river bed were investigated using models. In 1913, the laboratory moved to today's Beyer building, where it is still located today. Among other things, Engels researched the hydraulics of Chinese rivers (especially the Huang Ho in the hydraulic engineering research institute in Obernach). One of his students was Otto Franzius , nephew of Ludwig Franzius, who continued his work in China in 1929. In 1923 Hubert Engels was awarded the Wilhelm Exner Medal .

Hubert Engels retired in 1924.

Honors

On the occasion of Hubert Engels' 90th birthday, the research laboratory was renamed the Hubert Engels Laboratory in 1944.

Since 1923, the Hubert Engels Medal has been awarded for special and outstanding achievements in hydraulic engineering disciplines. After an interruption in 1998, the award was given by the Society of Patrons of the Hubert Engels Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Technical Hydromechanics of the Technical University of Dresden e. V. brought back to life.

Works

  • Model tests on the influence of the shape and size of the canal cross-section on the ship's resistance. 1898.
  • The river engineering laboratory of the Königl. Technical University in Dresden. 1900.
  • Investigations on the formation of beds in straight or slightly curved stretches of river with a movable bed. 1900.
  • The need for water. 1907.
  • About the size of the water pressure in the ground. 1911.
  • Experiments on the frictional resistance between flowing water and bed sole. 1912.
  • Handbook of hydraulic engineering. 2 volumes, 1914.
  • Messages from the Dresden river engineering laboratory. 1917.
  • The German seaport of Hamburg and its future. 1918.
  • Large-scale model experiments on the behavior of a sediment-guiding winding watercourse under the influence of changing water levels and various types of embankment. 1932.

literature

  • Walter Sbrzesny:  Engels, Hubert Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 528 ( digitized version ).
  • H. Ricken: Remembering Hubert Engels. In: Structural Engineering. Volume 72, No. 12, 1995, pp. 822-824.
  • Günter Lehmann: The old master of hydraulic engineering Hubert Engels was born in Mülheim an der Ruhr 150 years ago. In: Mülheimer Jahrbuch 2004, pp. 300–307.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 30.
  2. ^ Iwo Amelung: The Yellow River in Germany. Sino-German relations in the field of hydraulic engineering in the 20s and 30s of the 20th century. In: Seminar for the language and culture of China at the University of Hamburg (ed.): Oriens extremus: Journal for language, art and culture in the countries of the Far East. Volume 38, Harrasowitz, Wiesbaden 1995, ISSN  0030-5197 , p. 164 f.
  3. ↑ All medalists since 1921 , accessed on February 21, 2020 at Wilhelmexner.org.
personal data
SURNAME Engels, Hubert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engels, Hubert Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hydraulic engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1945
Place of death Jena