Otto Geissler

Otto Geißler (born May 27, 1872 in Luckenwalde ; † July 2, 1939 in Wernigerode ) was a German hydraulic engineer and university professor at the TH Hannover .

Life

Geißler left grammar school without a high school diploma and acquired hydraulic engineering skills as an autodidact . From 1901 to 1906 he was head of the Berlin branch office of the Allgemeine Städtereinigungsgesellschaft in Wiesbaden, later a consulting engineer, from 1908 in Berlin-Nikolassee. Without a formal qualification, he was appointed as a university lecturer in 1922. He taught water management and cultural construction at the TH Hannover until 1934. He was also responsible for large projects such as the waterworks in Misburg . An application for membership in the NSDAP was rejected in 1933. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . In 1934 he retired early after he was defamed by the National Socialists without being an opponent of the Nazi state. His numerous construction contracts in secondary employment and his insistence on the professional quality of tests also played a role.

Fonts

• Water and gas systems. Handbook of water procurement, irrigation, drainage and gas lighting , Jänecke, Hanover 1902
• Water supply and drainage of the communities , Verlag Der Wasser und Wegebau, 1905
• Investigations and suggestions for the regulation and use of the water runoff in the Holtemmeg area , Hannover 1927
• About the water supply of Hanover , Hanover 1929
• Via the long-distance water pipes from the Sösesperre to Hanover , Hanover 1930

literature

• Michael Jung: “Our hearts beat to the Führer with great enthusiasm”: The Technical University of Hanover and its professors under National Socialism. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6451-3 .
• Catalogus professorum 1831-1981 . Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hanover, Vol. 2, Stuttgart 1981, p. 78.

Single receipts

1. ↑ Jung, pp. 93-103