Max Gary

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Max Gary as a corps student 1885

Louis Wilhelm Richard Max Gary (born August 15, 1859 in Erfurt , † April 9, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German building materials expert .

family

Max Gary's father was the businessman Fritz Gary, born in 1824, who, after his first professional position in Odessa, had worked in Erfurt since 1850 and later became an authorized representative of the local wholesaler Joh. Anton Lucius . His mother was Catharine Emilie Gary, born in 1836. Bahlsen. His grandparents were the businessman Jacob Gary in Schwabach and Marie Magdalene Kunigunde Gary, nee. Grimm, as well as the jeweler Heinrich Ludwig Bahlsen and Leopoldine Luise Bahlsen, b. Lucius.

On March 30, 1890, Max Gary married Leopoldine Bahlsen, daughter of the Berlin businessman Julius Bahlsen. The marriage resulted in three children, Fritz Gary, * May 25, 1892, lieutenant in the reserve and businessman, Käte Gary, * July 7, 1895, married to the syndic Dr. Meissinger, and Hildegard Gary, born October 4, 1896.

Life

After graduating from secondary school in Erfurt , Gary initially worked practically as a carpenter and cabinet maker in Erfurt. From the winter semester 1881/82 to the winter semester 1884/85 he studied civil engineering and architecture at the Technical University of Charlottenburg , where he became active in the Corps Saxonia-Berlin in 1881.

After completing his studies, he initially worked as an assistant at the royal testing station for building materials and then as a technical supervisory officer for the quarry trade association. After the death of the previous head Emil Paul Böhme in early 1895, he was appointed head of the royal testing station for building materials. Just a few weeks later, on April 1, 1895, this became a department that Gary continued to head in the Royal Mechanical and Technical Research Institute. In 1902 he was appointed professor. The research institute, in turn, was affiliated to the Royal Materials Testing Office in 1904 (predecessor of today's Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing ). Gary remained a department head, with the department now called Building Materials Testing.

His scientific work on building materials in general, and specifically on mortar and concrete, earned Gary international recognition. He was a member of the technical committee of the Association for the Advancement of Industry in Prussia and of the Association of German Engineers .

After his death, Heinrich Burchartz was appointed his successor. His grave is in the Protestant St. Anne's churchyard in Dahlem.

Dahlem villa colony

From 1902 to 1903, Gary had a villa built by the architect Felix Lindhorst in the immediate vicinity of the materials testing institute at Potsdamer Chaussee 97 (today Unter den Eichen 91). Gary was one of the first residents of the villa colony in Dahlem and was involved in numerous local associations and agencies. He was chairman of the Free Association of Dahlem villa owners and a member of the estate agency of the Dahlem domain . The Villa Gary has been preserved and is now a listed building.

honors and awards

  • Red Eagle Order IV Class, 1905
  • Royal crown for the Order of the Red Eagle IV class, 1908
  • Knight III. Class of Merit of Saint Michael , 1910
  • Officer's Cross of the Royal Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau , 1912
  • Awarded the title of Privy Councilor , around 1915
  • Honorary doctoral engineer from the Technical University of Stuttgart in "recognition of his great services to the establishment of uniform test methods in the field of mortars and the investigation of natural and artificial building blocks", November 1917
  • Appointment as honorary member of the Association of German Portland Cement Manufacturers, 1922
  • Appointment as an honorary member of the Association of German Audit Engineers
  • Appointment as honorary chairman of the Free Association of Dahlem Villa Owners
  • The name of the newly created street 6 when the Dahlem domain was divided up in 1920 is Garystraße , located in what is now the so-called university district of the Free University of Berlin , not far from his country house and the BAM .

Publications

  • On the question of the frost resistance of the building blocks. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 7, No. 39 (September 24, 1887), pp. 371–373.
  • The German natural building blocks in terms of their strength and physical properties . In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 10, No. 5A (February 5, 1890), pp. 53-54.
  • About the mechanical properties of pine wood. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 10, No. 22 (May 31, 1890), pp. 219–220.
  • Experiments on the frost resistance of natural and artificial building blocks. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 10, No. 28 (July 12, 1890), pp. 290–291.
  • Testing of German cements. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 10, No. 41 (October 11, 1890), pp. 427-428.
  • Comparative studies of pozzolan, Portland and Roman cements . In Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 10, No. 52 (December 27, 1890), pp. 539-540.
  • Attempts at the wear and tear of paving materials and floor coverings. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 11, No. 32A (August 12, 1891), pp. 315-316.
  • About the causes of the discrepancy in the strength results of the cement test at different locations. In: Mittheilungen der Königl. Technical research institutes. Born in 1898, issue 1.
  • Report on the behavior of hydraulic binders in sea water . Julius Springer Publishing House, Berlin 1900.
  • Experiments on the influence of cold and heat on the hardening ability of concrete: carried out in the Royal Materials Testing Office in Groß Lichterfelde-West in 1911 . German Committee for Reinforced Concrete, Volume 13. Verlag Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1911.
  • Experiments with rammed concrete: carried out in the Royal Materials Testing Office in Gross-Lichterfelde-West from 1905 to 1910 . German Committee for Reinforced Concrete, Volume 17. Verlag Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1912.
  • Experiments on the rusting of iron in mortar and masonry: carried out at the Royal Materials Testing Office in Berlin-Lichterfelde-West from 1907 to 1912 . German Committee for Reinforced Concrete, Volume 22. Verlag Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1913.
  • Loading and demolition of two reinforced concrete structures . German Committee for Reinforced Concrete, Issue 26. Verlag Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1913.
  • Appropriate composition of the concrete mix for reinforced concrete: Report on tests in the Kgl. Material testing office Berlin-Lichterfelde-West . German Committee for Reinforced Concrete, Volume 29. Verlag Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1915.
  • Test loading of ceilings: reports after attempts by the Kgl. Materials Testing Office in Berlin-Lichterfelde-West and the Aktien-Gesellschaft für Beton- und Monierbau in Berlin . German Committee for Reinforced Concrete, Volume 32. Verlag Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1915.
  • Swelling and shrinkage of cement and cement mortar in water and air: Report on experiments in the Kgl. Material testing office . Verlag Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1915.
  • Fire tests on reinforced concrete structures . German Committee for Reinforced Concrete, Volume 33. Verlag Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1916.
  • Cracks in the concrete. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 37, No. 34 (April 25, 1917), pp. 217-220.
  • Liquid concrete mixes for reinforced concrete: Report on tests in the Royal Materials Testing Office Berlin-Lichterfelde-West . German Committee for Reinforced Concrete, Volume 39. Verlag Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1917.
  • Concrete and iron in masonry and mortar . German Committee for Reinforced Concrete. Verlag Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1917.
  • Properties of stamped concrete . German Committee for Reinforced Concrete. Verlag Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1917.
  • Hydraulic binders. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 37, No. 101 (December 15, 1917), pp. 610–611.
  • Properties of stamped concrete . German Committee for Reinforced Concrete, Booklet C. Verlag Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1918.
  • Fire tests on reinforced concrete structures (second report) . German Committee for Reinforced Concrete, Volume 41. Verlag Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1918.
  • Shrinkage of cement mortar in the air: 2. Report on experiments in the Königl. Materials Testing Office, Bln-Lichterfelde-W. German Committee for Reinforced Concrete. Verlag Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1918.
  • The enemies of cement. In: Activity report of the Prussian Materials Testing Office from the operating year 1918/1919. Julius Springer Publishing House, Berlin 1919.
  • About the behavior of hydraulic binders in sea water. In: Activity report of the Prussian Materials Testing Office from the operating year 1918/1919. Julius Springer Publishing House, Berlin 1919.
  • Load and fire exposure of a warehouse made of reinforced concrete in Wetzlar: report after tests d. State Materials Testing Office in Berlin-Dahlem . German Committee for Reinforced Concrete, Issue 46.Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn Verlag, Berlin 1920.
  • Experiments on the behavior of mortar and concrete in the moor: carried out in the state material testing office in Berlin-Dahlem u. in the laboratory d. Association of German Portland cement manufacturers in Karlshorst . German Committee for Reinforced Concrete, Issue 49.Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn Verlag, Berlin 1922.
  • Strength of concrete with changing sand content of the aggregates in earth-moist, soft and liquid concrete . German Committee for Reinforced Concrete. Verlag Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1922.
  • The factory production of lime paste and dry slaked lime . 1922.

literature

  • Walter Sbrzesny:  Gary, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 78 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Dietrich Seidlitz: The Gary house - a Dahlem country house in Lichterfelde. In: Steglitz home. 2010, Volume 55, Issue 2, pp. 7–13.
  • Alfred G. Meyer: Chronicle of the Royal Technical University of Berlin 1884–1899 - Mechanical-technical research institute. Pp. 265-268. As part II of: Eduard Dobbert : Chronicle of the Royal Technical University of Berlin 1799–1899. 1899.
  • * Who is it? , VIII Edition, 1922, pp. 457-458. Digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Weigandt: History of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin to Aachen 1867-1967. P. 16, Aachen 1968.
  2. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung, 15 (3A), 1895, p. 36.
  3. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung, 15 (4), 1895, p. 37.
  4. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung 22 (45), 1902, p. 273.
  5. ↑ From the material testing office , in Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 44, 1924, No. 52, p. 484.
  6. ↑ Evangelischer St. Annen-Kirchhof ( Memento from October 12, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) (PDF)
  7. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , Volume 6, No. 9 (December 1903), p. 311.
  8. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  9. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung 25 (103), 1905, p. 637.
  10. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung 28 (95), 1908, p. 629.
  11. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, 30 (93), 1910, p. 605.
  12. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, 31 (3), 1911, p. 9.
  13. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung 32 (33), 1912, p. 205.
  14. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, 37 (95), 1917, p. 575.
  15. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, 42 (59), 1922, p. 347.
  16. ↑ Garystrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Gary, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gary, Louis Wilhelm Richard Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German building materials expert
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1923
Place of death Berlin