Leopold Ellerbeck

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Leopold Ernst Ellerbeck (born January 14, 1872 in Bromberg ; † May 8, 1945 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ) was a German civil engineer.

Ellerbeck was the son of a district judge and studied civil engineering at the TH Hanover and the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg . In 1899 he passed his master builder examination in Berlin and in 1918 he received his doctorate at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg (From the shrinking work on the framework). He worked in Münster , Kosel , Potsdam and as a construction manager for the new construction of the bridge over the Memel in Tilsit , and was head of the hydraulic engineering inspection in Meppen for eight years . In 1916 he was government councilor and building officer in Berlin and in 1921 Ministerialrat in the Reich Ministry of Transport in the waterways department. There he was responsible for bridge construction, static questions and scientific questions about building materials. During his time, for example, the Niederfinow ship lift was built (1934).

He was a member of Degebo and DIN (German Standards Committee).

From 1921 to 1943 he was chairman of the German Committee for Reinforced Concrete (from 1941 German Committee for Reinforced Concrete, DAfStb), beginning with the takeover of the committee in the Reich Ministry of Transport in 1921. For the anniversary of the DAfStb, he published the anniversary issue (the 100th issue) of the Series of publications by the DAfStb with Otto Graf . He died in May 1945 of the consequences of pneumonia that he contracted while staying in the air raid shelters during the bombing and fighting around Berlin.

In 1943 he received the Emil Mörsch Memorial Medal .

He was involved in the spread of Esperanto .

Fonts

  • Explanations of the Prussian building construction load regulations, Berlin: Ernst and Son, 1919, 2nd edition 1921

literature

  • Edwin AR Trout: The German Committee for Reinforced Concrete, 1907-1945. Part 1: Before World War 1, Part 2: Between the Wars, Construction History, Volume 29, 2014, pp. 51–73, 83–102
  • Entry in: Vierhaus (Ed.), German Biographical Encyclopedia
  • Fifty years of the German Committee for Reinforced Concrete, 1907–1957, Ernst and Son 1957

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In addition, he published the Esperanto course in two volumes in 1920, a statement on Erwin Ritter's proposals for a world lingua franca , 1933
personal data
SURNAME Ellerbeck, Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ellerbeck, Leopold Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1945
Place of death Berlin-Wilmersdorf