Kurt Ackermann (civil engineer)

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Kurt Ackermann (born April 4, 1934 in Ebeleben in Thuringia ; † May 24, 2013 in Leipzig ) was a German civil engineer , transport scientist and university professor .

Live and act

Kurt Ackermann was the son of the merchants Curt and Marie Ackermann. After graduating from high school in Erfurt , he was denied direct access to studies for political reasons. He therefore worked for a year as a track construction worker. This practical activity but was also a precondition for studying at the University of Transport in Dresden , which he started in 1953 in civil engineering and graduated in 1958.

This was followed by a job as a site manager at the Reich Railway Directorate in Erfurt . From 1961 he worked as an assistant at the chair for railway and transport at the Technical University of Dresden , where he received his doctorate degree in 1966 with the dissertation design of inland port facilities taking into account the combined transport of general cargo . received his doctorate.

In the same year he was employed by the Leipzig city administration and tasked with setting up the office for traffic planning, of which he was director until 1980. During this time, the city's general transport plan was created and numerous transport projects were implemented, such as the - in the meantime demolished - pedestrian bridge at Friedrich-Engels-Platz ( Blue Wonder ), the transport links for the Leipzig-Grünau development area and the tramway development for the Leipzig-Lößnig development area. The regulation of parking times and the introduction of parking discs throughout the GDR were initiated and implemented. Since 1968 has been on a concept for connecting the main railway station - Bayerischer Bahnhof worked in 2013 as Leipzig City Tunnel was implemented, the opening of which Ackermann but did not live to see. At the end of the 1960s, he carried out an extensive household survey in Leipzig, the further development of which, together with the TU Dresden, led to the system of representative traffic surveys (SrV), an essential instrument of traffic planning that is still used regularly, most recently in 2018. Already in his time in Leipzig, When the handicapped in general did not play a role in traffic planning, he developed the basis for the planning and construction of traffic facilities suitable for the handicapped, and this problem continued to concern him later.

In 1981 he followed a call as a university lecturer for transport planning at the Technical University of Dresden. With his writing on the development of traffic planning in Leipzig , he received his PhD B in 1984 , which was awarded to Dr. Ing.- habil. was converted.

At the Institute for Urban Planning and Transport at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Dresden, which was newly founded in 1990, he was appointed full professor and elected director of the institute. In 1993 he moved with his chair for traffic and infrastructure planning to the faculty of traffic sciences "Friedrich List" founded in the previous year and became its vice dean .

His grave in the Leipziger Südfriedhof

Kurt Ackermann was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Transport in 1992 as the first East German university professor .

In 2000 Kurt Ackermann retired . His successor was Gerd-Axel Ahrens .

Kurt Ackermann was married to Käthe Ackermann, nee Barth. The couple had two daughters and a son. The family lived in a house in Leipzig- Marienbrunn . Kurt Ackermann died in 2013 and was buried in the Leipzig South Cemetery

Fonts (selection)

  • Kurt Ackermann: Design of inland ports taking into account the combined general cargo traffic . Dresden, Technical University, Dissertation A, 1966
  • Kurt Ackermann: On the development of traffic planning in Leipzig . Dresden, Technical University, Dissertation B, 1984
  • Kurt Ackermann, Christian Bartz, Gabriele Feller: Handicapped accessible traffic systems -: Planning manual for architects and engineers . Werner Verlag Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 978-3-8041-1054-0
  • Kurt Ackermann, W. Köhl: Land use and traffic . In: Uwe Köhler (Ed.): Traffic. Road, rail, air , Verlag Ernst & Sohn 2001, ISBN 978-3-433-01576-6
  • Kurt Ackermann, Andreas Glowienka, Reinhard W. Heinemann u. a .: City-Tunnel Leipzig: Chronicle of a railway connection from the 19th to the 21st century . Verlag Strom & Strom 2004, ISBN 978-3-9807618-4-0
  • 42 scientific articles, compiled by SÄBI ( Saxon Bibliography )

literature

  • Dorit Petschel: 175 years of TU Dresden: The professors of TU Dresden, 1828–2003 . Böhlau Verlag 2003, p. 34
  • Dr. Uta Ackermann-Fritsch: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Kurt Ackermann . In: Marienbrunner Lebenslaufen , ed. Association of Friends of Marienbrunn e. V.
  • Obituary for Prof. Kurt Ackermann . In: Dresdner Universitätsjournal 11/13 (digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inventory overview of the city archive
  2. ^ Kurt Ackermann, Walter Stein, Manfred Siegmundt: Problems of the closed tunnel construction: Investigations on the Leipzig connecting line . In: Bauplanung, Bautechnik , Berlin: Verl. Für Bauwesen, ISSN  0005-6758 , Vol. 26 (1972), pp. 192–194
  3. ↑ Kurt Ackermann: Disabled-friendly traffic systems - part of the training at the civil engineering and traffic sciences faculties "Friedrich List" . In: Scientific journal of the Technical University of Dresden , Dresden: Techn. University, ISSN  0043-6925 , Vol. 48 (1999) 5/6, pp. 89-92
personal data
SURNAME Ackermann, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer, transport scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Life
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 2013
Place of death Leipzig