Klaus-Jürgen Schneider

Klaus-Jürgen Schneider (born December 18, 1930 in Güstrow ; † February 21, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German civil engineer and publisher.

Live and act

After graduating from high school in Güstrow, Klaus-Jürgen Schneider studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Berlin , where he worked as a graduate engineer together with Jörg Schlaich at the chair for structural engineering statics led by Alfred Teichmann (1902–1971). At this time he began to establish his various contacts for his later work as an author, editor, editor and later as a publisher. At the engineering school for civil engineering in Minden , he initially campaigned for the advanced training events in the practice of civil engineering and activated almost all colleagues for this purpose. In the course of this work, Schneider motivated his colleagues to write books in pocket format in their respective fields. This resulted in the WIT series (Werner Engineer Texts) with a red cover. Erwin Schweda's (1932–2015) “Strength of Materials” and Eduard Kahlmeyer's “Steel Construction”, his own publications on masonry construction and many more of the almost 90 books on structural theory, solid construction, architecture and other subjects are known throughout Germany and should be mentioned here. These books could be found in every educational institution, including technical colleges, and in all offices and construction companies.

The idea with which he and his closest colleagues not only convinced the remaining two-thirds of the teachers in Minden as authors, but also, as the book was published, also convinced the entire professional world, was unique: in addition to the extensive scientific works by professors that had previously existed of the technical universities should be published in a concise book that is equipped with a simple example from practice on each topic or verification procedure. The success was staggering after Schneider, as editor, brought together the competencies with the publisher Otto Werner ( Werner-Verlag Düsseldorf) and encouraged by his colleagues in architecture and civil engineering. The Schneider building tables were born in 1974 and are still the most widely used standard work known to every civil engineer: The Schneider building tables . This book goes back to the engineering school in Minden, today's Minden campus of the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences , where Klaus-Jürgen Schneider taught as editor and author of the construction tables from 1974 to 2004.

Klaus-Jürgen Schneider had a flair for recognizing which topics and books were needed and in good demand in practice. He had the ability to motivate the recruited authors to put the utmost effort into the preparation of their books. It was open to all disciplines - at that time, the two departments of architecture and civil engineering were merged into a common department. Together with his architect colleague Wiethüchter, he coined and implemented the idea of ​​integral building in the joint teaching on building construction.

With the tailwind of the construction tables, Schneider traveled tirelessly through the republic and made the Minden location known everywhere. His travel activities were not limited to the Federal Republic. Free of ideology and without fear of contact with his colleagues in the GDR , he also made contact with his specialist colleagues in this part of Germany. This culminated in the fruitful collaboration with the civil engineer and specialist journalist Doris Greiner-Mai, who was born in Ernstthal (GDR) . At the East Berlin publishing house “Verlag für Bauwesen” he worked with Greiner Mai and two Leipzig authors at the beginning of the 1980s on a two-volume text and technical book on reinforced concrete in calculation algorithms according to the applicable DIN regulations, which was distributed by Werner-Verlag. Thanks to frequent “unconventional” author meetings in Berlin and during the Leipzig Book Fair, Schneider always had a “hot line” to his academic colleagues in the GDR, which of course remained at eye level after the fall of the Berlin Wall

In 1987, Schneider co-founded the BAUFORUM MINDEN and was responsible for the annual lecture program. In a way, he was even involved in the design of the new Glacis-Weser Bridge : after he invited his friend from the Berlin assistantship, Jörg Schlaich, to a specialist lecture on lightweight, wide-span supporting structures as part of the BAUFORUM in 1994, Schlaich became part of the city of Minden involved in the planning of the new Glacis-Weser Bridge with design and implementation as a light, transparent suspension bridge.

After his retirement, Schneider withdrew from Werner-Verlag around the same time as the publisher Otto Werner and founded his own publishing house in 1999. The Bauwerk Verlag Berlin edited with him as managing partner and tireless engine as well as his partner - Ernst Karl Schneider (1939-2010), the former managing director of the publishing house Ernst & Sohn - practice-oriented specialist books in the field of civil engineering. In 2011 Klaus-Jürgen Schneider brought Bauwerk Verlag into Beuth Verlag; In this context, too, he became involved with publishing success.

Private

As a great music lover and violinist, he encouraged his four children, so that today three play in excellent orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic.

For the last few years, Klaus-Jürgen Schneider has lived in Berlin again, the headquarters of his publishing house and Beuth Verlag and at the same time close to his daughter. One met him regularly at conferences and other events in the construction industry and also during his visits to the department in Minden, his old educational establishment.

Klaus-Jürgen Schneider died on February 21, 2015 at the age of 84 with his family.

Fonts

• Schneider, K.-J .; Schweda, E .: Statically determined planar frameworks. Part 1 . Werner engineer texts 1. Düsseldorf: Werner-Verlag 1970.
• Schneider, K.-J .; Schweda, E .: Statically determined planar frameworks. Part 2 . Werner Engineer Texts 2. Düsseldorf: Werner Verlag 1970.
• Schneider, K.-J .; Schweda, E .: Statically indeterminate flat frameworks . Werner Engineer Texts 3. Düsseldorf: Werner Verlag 1973.
• Schneider, K.-J. (Ed.): Construction tables with calculation instructions and examples . Werner Engineer Texts 40th 1st edition. Düsseldorf: Werner-Verlag 1974.
• Schneider, K.-J .; Kuhnke, H. (1986): Determination of the wall moments of masonry walls according to DIN 1053 Part 2 with any wall thickness and floor height . In: Bautechnik, Vol. 63 (1986), H. 7, pp. 229-232.
• Schneider, KJ: Multi-storey buildings with large spans and greater storey heights made of masonry. Model calculations based on DIN 1053 Part 2 . In: Bautechnik, 69th vol., (1992), H. 6, pp. 311-313.
• Schneider, K.-J .; Schneider, A .: Ring anchor and ring beam made of reinforced masonry . In: Bautechnik, 70th Jg. (1993), H. 6, pp. 330-332.
• Schneider, Klaus-Jürgen; Schubert, Peter; Wormuth, Rüdiger: Masonry construction: design, building materials, construction, calculation, execution . 6., rework. u. exp. Edition Düsseldorf: Werner-Verlag 1999.
• Rubin, Helmut ; Schneider, Klaus-Jürgen: Structural Analysis: Theory I. and II. Order . 4., rework. u. exp. Edition Düsseldorf: Werner-Verlag 2002.
• Schneider, K.-J .: Masonry calculation - practical and simple . In: Mauerwerk, 11th year (2007), no. 1, p. 63.
• Schneider, Klaus-Jürgen; Schubert, Peter: Masonry construction in a nutshell: Information for "builders" . Berlin: Bauwerk Verlag 2010.
• Widjaja, Eddy; Holschemacher, Klaus; Schneider, Klaus-Jürgen: Structural engineering - simple and clear: structural principles; Rules of thumb; Wind and snow loads according to Eurocode . 4., rework. u. exp. Edition Berlin: Beuth Verlag 2013.
• Holschemacher, Klaus; Peterson Leif A .; Peters, Klaus; Thiele, Ralf; Purtak, Frank; Schneider, Klaus-Jürgen: Structural engineering compact: collection of formulas and dimensioning aids according to Eurocode. 5th , updated edition Berlin: Beuth Verlag 2016.

literature

Schubert, Peter; Hunter, tungsten ; Brameshuber, Wolfgang ; Graubner, Alexander ; Meyer, Udo; Rast, Ronald; Schoch, Torsten; Stürmer, Franka: Professor Dipl.-Ing. Klaus-Jürgen Schneider † . In: Mauerwerk, 19th year (2015), H. 2, pp. 171–172.

proof

1. ↑ Obituary notice. (PDF) Börsenblatt , accessed on January 3, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Schweda, Erwin: strength theory . Werner Engineer Texts 4. Düsseldorf: Werner Verlag 1976.
3. ^ Kahlmeyer, Eduard: Steel construction: beams, supports, connections . Düsseldorf: Werner-Verlag 1984.
4. ^ Kurrer, Karl-Eugen : On the history of the development of the German-language table work in civil engineering . In: Uta Hassler (ed.): The textbook discourse on building . vdf Hochschulverlag , Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7281-3686-2 , pp. 262–281 (here pp. 278f.).
5. ↑ Doris Greiner-Mai: Klaus ‐ Jürgen Schneider died ., In Stahlbau , April 2015, p. 295
6. ↑ Klaus Peters: Obituary: Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Klaus-Jürgen Schneider died at the age of 84. Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, April 16, 2015, accessed on January 3, 2020 .