Manfred Nussbaumer

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Manfred Nussbaumer (born November 24, 1940 in Würzburg ) is a German civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering . From 1997 to 2005 he was CEO of Züblin .

Nussbaumer completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer from 1954 to 1957 and was admitted to study at the State Building School in Munich in 1958 because of his talent without secondary school leaving certificate. In 1962 he graduated as a civil engineer. After four years as a site manager in industrial construction and special civil engineering, he studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Munich until his diploma in 1970 , where he received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation from 1968 . From 1970 to 1972 he completed postgraduate studies at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Master of Science degree. 1972 to 1975 he was an assistant at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 1975 he was head of the civil engineering department at Züblin, where he was appointed director in 1983 and was on the board from 1986. In 1990 he became deputy chairman of the board and in 1997 chairman of the board.

In 1989 he became head of the earthworks and foundation engineering section of the German Geotechnical Society (DGGT). From 2002 to 2010 he was chairman of the DGGT, after having been deputy chairman since 1994. From 1997 to 2002 he was chairman of the VDI- Gesellschaft Bautechnik and in 2004 received the VDI award of honor. He was chairman of the steering committee of the DIN construction standards committee in the foundation engineering department. From 2007 to 2011 he was chairman of the German Concrete and Structural Engineering Association , of which he has been an honorary member since 2013.

In 1992 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Stuttgart and in 1993 an honorary professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology . Nussbaumer is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (Acatech) . He is also Honorary Consul of Bulgaria and was on the Presidium of the Eastern Committee of German Business.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography after Walter Wittke, Georg Heerten Prof. Dr. Ing.Eh Manfred Nussbaumer M. Sc. 65 years , Geotechnics 2005, No. 4
  2. ^ Susanne Preuß: New construction site for the problem solver. faz.net October 4, 2004 , accessed May 5, 2012
  3. ^ DBV appoints Professor Manfred Nussbaumer as an honorary member. April 18, 2014, accessed May 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Nussbaumer, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer for foundation engineering and soil mechanics
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg