Max Förster (civil engineer)

Max Förster (born June 9, 1867 in Grünberg in Silesia ; † June 12, 1930 in Dresden ; also Max Foerster ) was a German civil engineer, university professor and member of the Saxon state parliament.

Life

The son of the cloth manufacturer August Förster (1837–1915) studied civil engineering in Berlin. In 1892 he received the Schinkel Prize . From 1896 he was assistant for bridge construction and structural engineering at Georg Christoph Mehrtens at the Technical University of Dresden (THD). From 1900 until his death, Förster was professor for building sciences at the THD. Max Foerster was elected in 1917 for the late Friedrich Albert Maximilian Kuntze as a member of the National Liberal Party in the 24th rural constituency of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament , of which he was a member until 1918. He was the brother of the well-known chemist Fritz Foerster , who also taught at the Technical University of Dresden.

Max Förster was the first civil engineer at a German university to give lectures explicitly on reinforced concrete , which was the prevailing building material at the time (1905). He died in Dresden in 1930 and was buried in the Tolkewitz urn grove .

Fonts

Girder bridges in reinforced concrete.
The iron structures of the engineering buildings.
The basics of reinforced concrete construction.
as editor: Taschenbuch für Bauingenieure , 2 vols., 5th edition, Berlin 1928.

Honors

In 1918 Foerster was a knight 1st class of the Saxon Order of Merit and Commander 2nd class of the Order of Albrecht , in addition he wore the Saxon War Merit Cross .

Förster was a 2nd class knight of the Austrian Order of the Iron Crown . He was also the recipient of the Prussian Red Cross Medal and the Turkish Red Crescent Medal of Merit in silver.

literature

W. Gehler: Max Foerster in memory. In: Die Bautechnik , Volume 8, Issue 31 (July 18, 1930), p. 485.
Harry Wilson: Foerster, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 274 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Literature by and about Max Förster in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon Parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , p. 372.

^ Technical University of Dresden (ed.): Graves of professors of the alma mater dresdensis in cemeteries in Dresden and the surrounding area . 2nd Edition. Lausitzer Druck- und Verlagshaus, 2003, p. 39.

↑ ^a ^b Address Book Dresden 1918, Part I, p. 164. ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Forester, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Foerster, Max Gustav Wilhelm Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German civil engineer, university professor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	June 9, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH	Grünberg in Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	June 12, 1930
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon Parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , p. 372.

[2] Technical University of Dresden (ed.): Graves of professors of the alma mater dresdensis in cemeteries in Dresden and the surrounding area . 2nd Edition. Lausitzer Druck- und Verlagshaus, 2003, p. 39.