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Karl Morgen (born March 19, 1952 ) is a German civil engineer.

Morgen grew up in Isny and studied civil engineering at the TH Karlsruhe from 1972 to 1977 . For his diploma with top marks, he received the Tulla Medal and the Bilfinger Berger Prize. From 1978 to 1983 he was a research assistant at the chair for structural engineering with Udo Vogel , where he received his doctorate with distinction in 1983 ( calculation of orthotropic rectangular plates according to the non-linear elasticity theory for any boundary conditions ). In 1984 he was in the engineering office Harrer in Karlsruhe and from 1984 to 1986 construction manager at Dyckerhoff & Widmann in Hamburg. He then spent a few months at Lockwood Greene engineering in New York. From 1986 he worked for the Windels Timm engineering office in Hamburg, where he soon became a managing partner in 1988. Windels Timm became Windels Timm Morgen (WTM Engineers). He has been a consultant there since 2018. He has been a test engineer for structural engineering (in all fields - steel construction, solid construction, wood construction - and also internationally active) and EBA test engineer since 1990 .

In 2015 he received the Emil Mörsch Medal . In 2019 he was awarded the civil engineering law prize of the CBTR .

He is on the board of the study society for underground transport systems (STUVA), from 2005 as deputy chairman. He is also a board member of the carbon concrete composite (c3) association. From 2010 to 2019 he was a member of the board of the Hafenbausechnische Gesellschaft (HTG), in whose technical committee for embankments he has been since 1998. In 2019 he was made a married member and received the Möbius Prize for his life's work. He is a founding member and was on the board of the Hamburg Chamber of Engineers (HIK) for many years. From 1995 to 2010 he was regional chairman of the test engineers for construction technology in Hamburg. He was on the board of the DAfStb for ten years.

He is a passionate ocean sailor.

literature

• Ulrich Jäppelt: Karl Morgen 60 Years, Construction Technology, Volume 89, 2012, pp. 286–287

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tunnel 04/2015