Justus Danckwerts (master builder)

Justus Danckwerts (born August 3, 1853 in Harburg , † March 1, 1928 in Hanover ) was a German builder.

Life

Danckwerts became a government builder in 1881 and then worked at the Harburg hydraulic engineering inspection. From July 1883, he managed a master farm in the state of Saxony-Weimar before moving to the administrative district of Opole . From 1888 to 1897 he was then amelioration building inspector for the province of East Prussia . From 1897 he worked as a government and building adviser at the high presidium in Königsberg , and from 1900 at the high presidium in Kassel . In 1901 he became professor for hydraulic engineering at the TH Hannover . From 1903 he was also a member of the monastery chamber in Hanover. In 1907 Danckerts was awarded the title of Secret Building Councilor, and in 1921 he retired.

Fonts (selection)

• Project for the embankment of the Memel Delta , Königsberg: Hausbrand 1892.
• Memorandum regarding the formation of a Haffdeichverband for the floodplain of the Nemonia Stream and its tributaries, together with a system. Draft to shut off the Nemonic Stream above the Wiepschen Krug , o. O. [approx. 1895].
• Table for calculating the storage widths in open watercourses: with introductory discussions on the movement of water in closed and open pipes , Wiesbaden: Kreidel 1903.
• The basics of turbine calculation for practitioners and students of civil engineering , Wiesbaden: Kreidel 1904.
• The shock of the water and its appendix: the effect of the groynes , Wiesbaden: Kreidel 1906.
• Technical measures to render the backwater of the flood harmless for hydropower plants , Wiesbaden: Kreidel 1909 (publications of the Turinentechnische Gesellschaft; 1).

• Theoretical foundations of practical hydraulics , 2 volumes, Hanover: Schmorl & Seefeld 1920.

literature

• TH Hannover (ed.): Catalogus Professorum. The teaching staff of the Technical University of Hanover 1831–1856 , Hanover: Technical University of 1956, pp. 123–124.