Paul from Soos

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Paul von Soos (born October 3, 1925 in Budapest ; † May 19, 2019 in Munich ) was a German civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering .

Paul von Soos was drafted into the Hungarian army after graduating from high school in Hungary in 1944, after he had just started studying civil engineering at the Technical University of Budapest . He fled to Bavaria in May 1945, worked there as a farm worker and was able to continue his studies at the TH Munich in 1946 . There he was then an assistant (in 1954 he became a German citizen) and, after the establishment of the Chair for Foundation Engineering and Soil Mechanics (held by Richard Jelinek ), took over the management of the laboratory as Jelinek 's successor. In 1989 he retired as Academic Director. He was also a consulting engineer and, as such, was involved, for example, in the anchoring of the tent roofs in the Olympic Park and in the civil engineering works under Karlsplatz ( Stachus ) in Munich, in the founding of television towers, the cantilever dams of the Jochenstein Danube power plant and in tunnel construction projects.

Paul von Soos was in many working groups of the DGGT and standards committees (for example as long-time chairman of the DIN 4020 committee). Among other things, he contributed to the new version of DIN 4020 (geotechnical investigations for structural purposes) and DIN 1054.

In 1986 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon and in 1985 the DIN badge of honor. He received the CBTR civil engineering law award.

Fonts

  • Soil properties, laboratory tests, in Grundbau-Taschenbuch , Ernst and Son 1966
  • with Jens Engel: Properties of soil and rock - their determination in the laboratory, in: Karl Josef Witt (ed.), Grundbau-Taschenbuch, Volume 1, 7th edition, Ernst and Son 2008

literature

  • Manfred Nussbaumer : Paul von Soos, senior academic director i. R., was 80, Geotechnics, Volume 28, 2005, No. 4, p. 212

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commemorative page of Paul von Soos | trauer.merkur.de. Retrieved on May 24, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Soos, Paul from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer for geotechnical engineering
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH 19th May 2019
Place of death Munich