Kurt Gaede

Kurt Wilhelm Gaede (born July 27, 1886 in Nienburg (Weser) , † July 12, 1975 in Hanover ) was a German engineer.

Life

Gaede became a qualified engineer in 1908. From 1908 to 1912 he was a government building supervisor, and from 1912 he was a government building master and building officer at the Prussian-Hessian state railways in Berlin , Herford , Hanover and in the Reich Ministry of Transport in Berlin. As a part-time job, Gaede was a research assistant at the TH Berlin and the TH Hannover , and he also held managerial positions in the railway signaling and construction industries. In 1932 he became a full professor at the Technical University of Hanover and head of the Institute for Civil Engineering and was responsible for the field of "Technical Air Protection". His main research areas were statics of building structures, solid construction and building material research. Gaede was a member of the National Socialist German Lecturer Association (NSDDB) and the Society for Construction. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . From 1949 to 1954 Gaede was director of the Lower Saxony Materials Testing Office in Hanover. In 1954 he retired. His brother was the physicist Wolfgang Gaede .

literature

• Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it , Berlin 1935, p. 466.
• TH Hannover (ed.): Catalogus Professorum. The teaching staff of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1856 , Hanover: Technical University of 1956, p. 129.