Otto Lienau

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Otto Lienau (born April 1, 1877 in Berlin ; † October 4, 1945 in Neustadt (Holstein) ) was a German shipbuilding engineer and professor at the Technical University of Danzig .

Lienau was a son of the music publisher Robert Emil Lienau and a brother of the music publisher Robert Heinrich Lienau . From 1896 he studied shipbuilding at the Technical University in Munich and at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . After passing the main diploma examination, he initially stayed as an assistant at the Berlin University and in 1904 accepted a position at the AG Weser in Bremen . In 1909 he received the professorship for practical shipbuilding and statics of ship construction at the Technical University of Danzig. He taught until 1939 and was rector of the university in the 1930/1931 academic year .

Lienau examined the ship's bottom and deck plating in theory and empirically. He also researched the history of shipbuilding . In 1933, under his leadership, the remains of three Viking ships were salvaged, restored and exhibited in the State Museum of the Free City of Danzig in Oliva . His reconstruction of the privateer " Peter von Danzig (1462) " (a Kraweel ) , developed from contemporary sources, was striking . Lienau belonged to the Association of German Engineers , the Institute of Naval Architects in London and the Shipbuilding Society (since 1908).

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  • The boat finds from Danzig-Ohra from the Viking Age. 1934.
  • The Bayeux Tapestry . A witness of Nordic-Germanic shipbuilding art. Berlin 1941.
  • History and appearance of the great Kraweel "Peter of Danzig" 1462–1475. Attempt at a reconstruction. Berlin 1942.

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SURNAME Lienau, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1945
Place of death Neustadt (Holstein)