Martin Rotach

Martin Rotach (born September 15, 1928 in Zurich ; † March 19, 2007 in Männedorf ; resident in Herisau ) was a Swiss engineer , professor at ETH Zurich , traffic and spatial planner .

Life

Martin Rotach was the son of Walter Rotach, a mathematics teacher and high school principal , and Martha Schweizer. In 1953 he married Ingeborg Dessauer, daughter of Lothar Dessauer, a lawyer . From 1947 to 1952 he completed a civil engineering degree at the ETH Zurich. In 1954 and 1955 he did a postgraduate degree as a traffic planner at Yale University in New Haven . From 1961 to 1964 he worked as a Thurgau canton engineer. From 1964 to 1993 he was Professor of Transport Engineering at the ETH Zurich. From 1965 to 1971 he was director of the Institute for Local, Regional and State Planning. From 1972 to 1975 he was a delegate of the Federal Council for Spatial Planning and a member of the General Transport and Energy Commission of Switzerland. Rotach worked with Hellmut Ringli to develop the four volumes Landesplaner: Leitbilder der Schweiz , published in 1971. He organized federal spatial planning and researched the effects of modern telecommunications on traffic and the environment .

literature

• On the resignation of Professor Martin C. Rotach. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of October 9, 1993, p. 24.
• Martin Rotach's obituary notice. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of March 23, 2007, p. 8.

Web links

• Bruno Meyer: Martin Rotach. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 22, 2010 , accessed May 22, 2020 .
• Literature by and about Martin Rotach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Martin Rotach in Swiss Elites of the 20th Century

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