Kurt Walz

Kurt Walz (born September 6, 1904 in Blaubeuren ; † January 9, 1999 in Düsseldorf ) was a German civil engineer and concrete expert.

Life

Kurt Walz went to school in Reutlingen before he started studying civil engineering at the Technical University in Stuttgart . In 1923 he joined the Alemannia Stuttgart fraternity .

In 1927 he began to work as a research assistant at the state material testing institute under Otto Graf . In 1930 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the impermeability of mortar and concrete . In 1939, Walz completed his habilitation on the workability and mechanical properties of fresh concrete .

In 1933 he joined the Black Reichswehr , where he resigned as a sergeant. At the end of World War II he was assigned to the Volkssturm , but no longer took part in combat operations.

In 1948 Walz was appointed adjunct professor and in 1948 received a call to the University of Alexandria . In 1956 he went to the Research Institute of the Cement Industry of the Association of German Cement Works (VDZ) in Düsseldorf. He was the first director to set up the concrete technology department. From 1966 to 1970 he was the managing director of the VDZ and head of the research institute.

Walz developed the Walz curves named after him, which illustrate the relationship between concrete compressive strength , cement compressive strength and water-cement value.

Honors

• War Merit Cross (1943)
• Honorary doctorate from the TH Aachen (1968)
• Golden Badge of Honor of the Association of German Cement Works (1970)
• Golden Badge of Honor of the Research Society for Roads and Transportation (1973)
• Emil Mörsch commemorative coin (1973)
• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1980)

literature

• Obituary by Hans-Wolf Reinhardt in the Stuttgart unikurier No. 82/83, September 1999

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Nolte : Fraternity members regular role. Berlin 1934, p. 525.
2. ↑ Walz curves, concrete technical data ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.