Josef Pirlet

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Josef Pirlet, ca.1920

Josef Pirlet (born April 12, 1880 in Aachen , † January 11, 1961 in Cologne ) was a German civil engineer .

Life

Pirlet grew up in Aachen, studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Aachen and received his doctorate in 1906 as a doctoral engineer. In 1909 he was approved as a structural engineer and founded a still existing engineering office in Aachen . At the same time he worked at the Technical University, received a teaching position for statics of building structures in 1912 and qualified as a private lecturer in 1913 .

In 1919 he married Else Giani, a granddaughter of Caspar Giani . The marriage resulted in nine children, including Eugen Pirlet (1927–1985), who also worked as a civil engineer, and Karl Pirlet (1920–2010), a physician .

In May 1926 he was appointed honorary professor of Faculty II at the Technical University of Aachen. At the beginning of the 1930s he moved his office to Cologne.

In 1935, like some other public figures who were critical of National Socialism, he was charged with alleged foreign currency offenses, convicted by the Berlin Regional Court and imprisoned in the Moabit prison. After the Völkischer Beobachter reported on it, he was given leave of absence from the Ministry of Education in the summer of 1935 and left the university's faculty in March of the following year.

After the Second World War, he again set up an office in Aachen to carry out security measures on numerous historical buildings, which he ran next to the main office in Cologne. In 1955 he accepted Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Kempen joined the Aachen office as a partner, which now traded under the name of Pirlet & Kempen, Diplom-Ingenieure . The Cologne office was located on the upper floor of the Lempertz art house on Neumarkt .

Aftermath

After Pirlet's death in 1961, his son, Dipl.-Ing. Eugen Pirlet the engineering office in Cologne and Matthias Kempen the engineering office in Aachen as sole owners. In 1985 the Cologne office was converted into a corporation under the name Pirlet & Partner Bau Konstruktionen Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH . The managing majority shareholder was Josef Pirlet's grandson, Dipl.-Ing. Alexander Pirlet. In 2015 the office moved to an office building on Hohenstaufenring . In addition to the shareholders, it has around 40 permanent employees.

plant

Buildings (selection)

Main building of the Rheinische Nadelfabriken AG in Aachen
Blombachtal Bridge

Fonts

  • Statics of the frame-like structures. Julius Springer Verlag, Berlin 1951.
  • Compendium of statics of building structures. Julius Springer Verlag, Berlin undated
  • Contribution to the calculation of girder gratings in torsionally rigid bridge decks. West German publishing house, Opladen 1952.
  • The hollow grid slab. (published by the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Economics and Transport) Düsseldorf 1954.

Awards

  • Commander of the Papal New Year's Eve
  • 1955: Large Federal Cross of Merit
  • 1956: Renaming of the former Pontweg in Aachen to Professor-Pirlet-Straße
  • Since 2000, the dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at RWTH has awarded the Josef Pirlet Prize named after him (endowed with € 6,000) for exceptional academic achievements. The prize was donated by his grandson and office successor Alexander Pirlet to mark the 90th anniversary of the Pirlet engineering office.

literature

  • 100 years of the Pirlet engineering office. In: Deutsches IngenieurBlatt , year 2011, issue 1/2, p. 14.
  • Ulrich Kalkmann: The Technical University of Aachen in the Third Reich (1933–1945). (= Aachen Studies on Technology and Society , Volume 4.) Verlag Mainz, Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-86130-181-4 , p. 396. (Dissertation, RWTH Aachen, 2003.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friendship in difficult times. Konrad Adenauer's letters to Dora Pferdmenges 1933–1949. Bonn 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Pirlet, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1961
Place of death Cologne