Hugo Kulka

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Hugo Kulka (born May 24, 1883 in Leipnik , † October 12, 1933 in The Hague ) was an Austrian civil engineer and university professor . He later became a German citizen.

Live and act

Kulka was born in Leipnik in 1883. From 1905 to 1906 he worked on the design for the mountain railway from Wekelsdorf to Parschnitz . From 1907 he was an engineer , from 1908 first structural engineer and in July 1916 chief engineer.

From 1921 to the end of 1930 he worked as technical director at Louis Eilers, a factory for iron building and bridge construction in Hanover ; Under his leadership, the halls of Leipzig Central Station , the transporter ferry in Rio de Janeiro , the Lidingö Bridge near Stockholm , the Norderelbe Bridge near Hamburg and many other bridges and iron hydraulic structures were built.

Kulka received his doctorate in Hanover in 1912. On June 16, 1924, he received an honorary professorship and a teaching position at the Technical University of Hanover in the fields of hydraulic iron and iron bridge construction. From 1928 he became a member of the Academy of Building in Berlin.

Kulka was to be appointed to the chair for iron construction and statics at the Technical University of Hanover in 1932/33. However, this appointment was controversial within the university from the start. The reason for this was not technical objections, but solely his Jewish origin . Kulka had already converted to the Protestant denomination in 1912 , but this was of no importance for National Socialist members of the university. In the spring of 1933 Kulka was expelled from the university for this reason.

Kulka then fled to The Hague and died in October 1933 as a result of an illness that had been dragged on by his escape.

Afterlife

On November 18, 2015, lecture hall E001 was renamed Hugo Kulka lecture hall at Leibniz University Hanover , the former Technical University of Hanover .

literature

  • Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hanover, 1931, p. 79.
  • Michael Jung: Our hearts beat with enthusiasm towards the Führer. The Technical University of Hanover and its professors under National Socialism. BOD, Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6451-3 , pp. 115-125.
  • Karl-Eugen Kurrer : German Steel Construction Day in Hanover , in: Stahlbau , 84th year (2015), no. 2, pp. 143–151.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leibniz University inaugurates memorial wall. (No longer available online.) November 18, 2015, archived from the original on January 26, 2016 ; accessed on January 26, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-hannover.de
personal data
SURNAME Kulka, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian civil engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipnik
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1933
Place of death The hague