Klaus Stiglat

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Klaus Stiglat (born August 3, 1932 in Insterburg , East Prussia ) is a German civil engineer .

biography

Stiglat grew up in East Prussia and studied civil engineering at the TH Karlsruhe from 1952 to 1957 , where he was Bernhard Fritz's assistant (until 1965) at the Institute for Structural Analysis and received his doctorate in 1960 with a dissertation on plates (contribution to the numerical calculation of the cutting forces of rectangular and oblique Slabs with edge beams) . Stiglat and Herbert Wippel were appointed to the chair at the suggestion of Fritz Heinrich Bechert's assistant with the express aim of preparing the slab statics for practical building purposes . From 1968 to 2000 he was a partner in the construction engineering group, which he founded with Ernst Buchholz, Horst Weckesser and Herbert Wippel. From 1968 to 2000 he was a test engineer for structural engineering.

In addition, he was editor of the magazine Beton- und Stahlbetonbau at Verlag Wilhelm Ernst und Sohn (until 1998) for around 25 years . There he initiated a series of 22 mostly autobiographical portraits of German civil engineers, which appeared in the magazine from 1990 to 1999 and, expanded in 2004, as a book.

He and Herbert Wippel wrote a manual for the design of panel systems.

As a civil engineering historian, he mainly dealt with bridges and concrete construction. He also published volumes of his own caricatures about the civil engineering profession.

He is the initiator of the civil engineering award. He criticized the fact that the authors of the standards do not communicate sufficiently with engineers who work in practice and that their standards are not sufficiently prepared for practice, that as a result and the use of computers, creative constructive design fades into the background and engineers are less and less familiar with literature would.

Civil engineers and their work

The book contains contributions from 97 civil engineers from German-speaking countries, some of them autobiographical, with detailed reflections on their working lives and experiences. The civil engineers portrayed are:

Arnold Agatz , Wolfhardt Andrä , Hugo Bachmann , Rudolf Barbré , Walther Bauersfeld , Willi Baur , Hermann Bay , Heinrich Bechert , Hubert Beck , Kurt Beyer , Kuno Boll , Friedrich Wilhelm Bornscheuer , Paul Böss , Reinhold Braschel , Gottfried Brendel , Ernst Chwalla , Wilhelm Cornelius , Friedrich Czerny , Karl Deininger , Franz Dischinger , Heinz Duddeck , Georg Ehlers , Josef Eibl , Otto Eiselin , Friedrich Engesser , Karl Federhofer , Ulrich Finsterwalder , Wilhelm Flügge , Gotthard Franz , Bernhard Fritz , Wilhelm Fuchssteiner , Karl Girkmann , Hans Goffin , Hans Grassl , Volker Hahn , Robert von Halasz , Siegfried Hasenjäger , August Hertwig , Hellmut Homberg , Herbert Hotzler, Mauritz Hünnebeck , György Ivanyi , Charlotte Jurecka, Walter Jurecka , Karl Kammüller , Gaspar Kani , Wilhelm Klingenberg , Kurt Klöppel , Werner Koepcke , Tihamér Koncz , Karl Kordina , Theodor Kristen , Arthur Lämmlein , Fritz Leonhardt , Peter Martens (engineer) , Alfred Mehmel , Ernst Melan , Emil M örsch , Leopold Müller-Salzburg , Ulrich Müther , Friedrich Nather , Leonhard Obermeyer , Josef Oxfort , Alfred Pauser , Jörg Peter , Helmut Pfannmüller , Alf Pflüger , Klaus Pieper , Stefan Polonyi , Adolf Pucher , Ernst Rausch , Friedrich Reinitzhuber , Hubert Rüsch , Sargis Safarian , Rudolf Saliger , Konrad Sattler , Reiner Saul , Karl Schaechterle , Herbert Schambeck , Gottwalt Schaper , Jörg Schlaich , Ferdinand Schleicher , Martha Schneider-Bürger , Hans Siebke , Wilhelm Silberkuhl , Friedrich Standfuß , Holger Svensson , Anton Tedesko , Friedrich Voss , René Walther , Bernhard Wedler , Fritz Wenzel , Louis Wintergerst , Hans Wittfoht , Günter Worch , Wolfdietrich Ziesel , Günter Zumpe

Fonts (selection)

  • Rectangular and inclined panels with edge beams, Munich: Ernst & Sohn 1962
  • with Herbert Wippel: Platten, Ernst & Sohn, 1966, 3rd edition 1983
  • Already standardized ?: Caricatures of a civil engineer, Ernst & Sohn 1993
  • Already certified? Caricatures of a civil engineer, Ernst & Sohn 1998
  • Bridges on the way: Early iron and concrete bridges in Germany and France, Ernst & Sohn 1996
  • as editor and co-author: Civil engineers and their work, Ernst & Sohn 2004 (first 1999)
  • Apocalypse construction. From the everyday life of a civil engineer. Caricatures from two decades, Ernst & Sohn 2010
  • Civil engineer? Civil engineer !. Articles, speeches, essays, Ernst & Sohn 2012
  • History of structural engineering: Comments by a consulting engineer, lecture at the 1st annual conference of the Society for the History of Structural Engineering on November 8, 2013 at the Chair for Structural Engineering , RWTH Aachen University, Structural Engineering , Volume 91, April 2014, pp. 292-297.
  • Bridges: Form, Construction, Criticism, Structural Engineering, Volume 89, February 2012, pp. 128–136.
  • From the early days of concrete construction, Bautechnik, Volume 89, July 2012, pp. 484–491.
  • Books are bridges: A journey through 300 years of civil engineering literature, Ernst & Sohn 2017

He also privately published a collection of his columns (Written In The Day) and later Memoirs (Looks Back) in 1998.

literature

  • Josef Steiner: Klaus Stiglat 75 years . In: Bautechnik, Volume 84, 2007, pp. 599-600
  • Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Klaus Stiglat 80 years. In: Stahlbau , Volume 81, 2012, pp. 671–673

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Bechert's autobiography in Klaus Stiglat, Civil Engineers and Their Work, 2004
  2. ↑ Herbert Hotzler, born in Berlin in 1927, holds a doctorate in civil engineering, taken up by Stiglat as an example of a civil engineer working in the GDR. Since he refused to join a party, it was a hindrance to his career. He was active in various VEB Kombinaten and published, for example, in Bautechnik .
personal data
SURNAME Stiglat, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Insterburg , East Prussia