Karl Deininger

Karl Deininger (born March 13, 1896 in Stuttgart ; † July 8, 1956 there ) was a German civil engineer. He was an engineer at Wayss & Freytag .

Deininger began his civil engineering studies at the TH Stuttgart during the First World War , was a soldier and finished his studies in 1921. He was a student of Emil Mörsch , who placed him at Wayss & Freytag. There he was in the design offices in Stuttgart, Munich and Hamburg, was briefly in Brazil and then technical director of the office in Hamburg. In 1931 he did his doctorate under Mörsch (The development of the reinforced concrete chimney in theory and practice) . From 1939 he was Mörsch's successor professor of reinforced concrete and structural engineering in Stuttgart.

He advised on reinforced concrete projects in bridge construction, building construction and civil engineering (e.g. Stuttgart TV tower, Rosenstein Bridge in Bad Cannstatt, Donautal Bridge Untermarchtal) and accompanied new concrete wall construction methods for high-rise buildings at the Technical University of Stuttgart (Feldner construction method with concrete between lost plasterboard formwork or walls made of split concrete) . His investigations into unreinforced concrete walls led to a change in the minimum wall thickness from 30 cm at the beginning of the 1950s to 10 cm, which was then met with strong resistance. He was also considered an expert in prestressed concrete .

Much of his work was published in the Research Association for Building and Living in Stuttgart.

Fonts (selection)

• Dimensioning in reinforced concrete construction based on the provisions of the German Committee for Reinforced Concrete, DIN 1045 from 1943 , publisher Emil Mörsch with the assistance of Karl Deininger, Stuttgart: Wittwer 1950
• with Ludwig Graf: Load-bearing transverse walls as a building principle in residential construction , publication by the Research Association for Building and Living, Stuttgart 1950
• with Karl Gösele, Walter Schüle: Solid ceilings in residential construction , publication by the Research Association for Building and Living, Stuttgart, 1950, 2nd edition 1956

literature

• Klaus Stiglat (Ed.): Civil engineers and their work , Ernst and Son 2004, p. 119