Otto Ammann

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Otto Ammann (* July 11, 1879 Bruchsal ; † August 18, 1933 Tegernsee in the Miesbach district ) was a railway engineer, professor and also rector of the Technical University of Karlsruhe .

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Otto Ammann studied civil engineering from 1897 to 1901 at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and the Technical University of Dresden . In Karlsruhe he became a member of Corps Hubertia Freiburg .

He got his first job in 1902 with the Grand Ducal Baden State Railroad and participated in the construction of the freight station in Freiburg. In 1907 he took up a position as assistant to Reinhard Baumeister and as a lecturer at the Technical University of Karlsruhe. In 1911 he received his doctorate in engineering and in 1912 he became a professor at the chair for road and railways. During the First World War he was a battery officer in the Vosges and dealt with the influences of weather and the nature of the terrain on the trajectory of projectiles. In doing so, he then worked out the shooting boards that were later named after him. After the end of the war he resumed teaching and research and in 1921 founded his own leading research institute in the field. Ammann was also rector of the Technical University of Karlsruhe from 1920 to 1921.

The Foundation for the Promotion of Young Academics in Road, Rail and Transport at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) commemorates Otto Ammann. Today the Institute for Roads and Railways is located at Otto-Ammann-Platz 1, named in 2006 .

literature

  • Friedrich Raab (Red.): The TH Fridericiana Karlsruhe, Festschrift for the 125th anniversary, Karlsruhe 1950, p. 187 f.
  • Rudolf Klein: Ammann, Otto, in: Badische Biographien NF Bd. I, ed. by Bernd Ottnad, Stuttgart 1982, pp. 14-17

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Ammann - City Lexicon. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ammann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German railway engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruchsal
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1933
Place of death Tegernsee