Karl Schaechterle

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Karl Wilhelm Schaechterle (born January 28, 1879 in Stuttgart , † July 13, 1971 in Bad Cannstatt ) was a German civil engineer and bridge builder.

Life

Karl Schaechterle studied civil engineering from 1896 to 1900 at the Technical University of Stuttgart , where he joined the student union Turnerschaft Alt-Württemberg in the Coburg Convent . He then worked as a municipal building inspector in Leipzig before taking the second state examination in 1905 . This was followed by employment with the Royal Württemberg State Railways and in 1907 he was appointed building officer. In 1911, Schaechterle received his doctorate from the TH Stuttgart. In 1919 he married Else Halder. With her he had two sons, of whom Karl-Heinz (* 1920; † 2008) was professor for traffic and urban planning at the Technical University of Munich .

Until 1920, interrupted by his participation in the First World War as a pioneer officer, Karl Schaechterle worked as a bridge engineer at the General Management, where he mainly designed arched and beam-shaped railway bridges made of reinforced concrete . At the Reichsbahn he worked from 1920 to 1935 as a bridge consultant for the Stuttgart directorate. From 1934 he was also responsible for the bridges of the Reichsautobahn in Baden and Württemberg. Fritz Leonhardt was one of his employees. In 1935 Schaechterle was transferred to the management of the Reichsautobahn in the Reich Ministry of Transport . There he was responsible for the construction and design of the motorway bridges in the south-western part of Germany, such as the Leipheim bridge over the Danube . In the 1930s, Schaechterle campaigned for the reduction of the roadway weight of steel bridges by assembling the roadway panel from girder gratings with a flat sheet cover, a development that was to lead to the orthotropic plate in steel bridge construction . During the Second World War he planned the reconstruction of destroyed bridges or the construction of temporary bridges, after the war he supported the construction of various large bridges as a consultant, such as the Mülheimer Brücke .

Honors

In 1938 Schaechterle was awarded an honorary doctorate and honorary professorship from the Technical University of Stuttgart, and in 1944 the Emil Mörsch medal from the German Concrete Association.

literature

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  1. ^ Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium . Ernst & Sohn , Berlin 2018, pp. 604f. u. 608f., ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9

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personal data
SURNAME Schaechterle, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaechterle, Karl Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and bridge builder
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1971
Place of death Bad Cannstatt