Max Mengeringhausen
Max Mengeringhausen (born October 3, 1903 in Braunschweig , † April 13, 1988 in Würzburg ) was a German engineer.
Life
Mengeringhausen studied mechanical engineering at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg and at the TH Munich, where he financed his studies as a working student, for example by translating De motu animalium by Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (at the suggestion of Gustav Lilienthal ). In 1928 he received his doctorate from the TH Munich (dissertation: The development of rail production in Germany ). In the same year he founded an engineering office for building services in Berlin. He worked for the VDI , where he founded their technical committee for building services, which he headed for decades. From 1931 to 1943 he was a lecturer at the Berlin-Neukölln State Building School.
Mengeringhausen built on August Föppl's theory of spatial frameworks and was influenced by Walter Porstmann and Ernst Neufert . In 1940 he published eight building laws for space frameworks and developed from them in 1942 the Mero space framework . He had already developed pipe systems as prefabricated elements with special nodes as a plug-in connection for the pipes at the end of the 1930s. In 1943 he received a patent (1953 also in the newly formed Federal Republic). During the Second World War, he used them for orders from the Luftwaffe for transportable structural systems, some of which were brokered by his friend Ernst Udet . They were sold after the war by the company Mero-TSK International , which went back to its engineering office in Berlin and was based in Würzburg from 1948. He had the breakthrough with his spatial framework in 1957 at the Interbau in Berlin with a roof designed by the architect Karl Otto (Halle der Stadt von Morgen).
In 1966 he classified three-dimensional frameworks using crystallographic methods, which Helmut Eberlein expanded in 1970. The steel construction professor Joachim Scheer in Braunschweig developed the design procedure for the Mero space framework . The highlights of the Mero construction were the German pavilion at the Expo 1970 in Osaka and the grandstand roof in the stadium in Split (1979). The calculation with the help of the FEM on the computer (Herbert Klimke from the data center of the Mero company) and in the theory of the spatial framework by Helmut Emde brought further progress .
He held around 200 patents, including in the sanitary sector.
In 1969 he received the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, in 1983 the Cross of Merit First Class and in 1972 the German Steel Construction Prize. In 1983 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich and received the ring of honor from the city of Würzburg. In 1977 he received the diesel medal in silver and the VDI badge of honor.
Fonts
- The MERO construction method, Berlin 1942 (self-published)
- with Alfred Faber: Taschenbuch Haustechnik, Franck 1961
- Installation cells in residential construction. Floor plan catalog, VDI Verlag 1966
- Composition in space. Introduction to the construction and application of space frameworks for the building industry, Bauverlag Wiesbaden 1968, 1975
- Composition in space. The art of individual building design with series elements, Bertelsmann 1983
literature
- Karl-Eugen Kurrer : On the composition of spatial frameworks from Föppl to Mengeringhausen, Stahlbau , Volume 73, 2004, pp. 603–623
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ First self-published, Würzburg 1962
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mengeringhausen, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1988 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |