Robert Otzen
Ehlert Robert Friedrich Otzen (born May 9, 1872 in Giesensdorf , † October 3, 1934 in Hanover ) was a German civil engineer and is considered the inventor of the word " Autobahn ".
Life
Robert Otzen was born the son of the Berlin architect Johannes Otzen (1839–1911) and his wife Caroline b. Househusband and had four sisters. Otzen studied engineering , became a government builder in 1900 and railway construction and operations inspector in 1905. From 1905 to 1907 he was an assistant for civil engineering at the TH Hannover . From 1907 Otzen was a private lecturer for the structural organization of buildings from civil engineering and their theoretical justification, before he became professor for iron construction and statics in 1908. From 1913 to 1915 he held the post of rector of the university before serving in the army until 1918. From November 19, 1926 he was chairman of the HaFraBa motorway project ( Hamburg - Frankfurt am Main - Basel ). As part of this project, he was responsible for the technical planning of the Hamburg – Göttingen section. In 1931 Otzen became president of the state material examination office in Berlin-Dahlem .
In 1929 he is said to have coined the term “ motorway ” based on the word “ railway ” . Up to this point in time people mostly spoke of “just a car road”.
Fonts (selection)
- Practical tips for studying statics and applying its laws. A handbook for students and practically active engineers , Wiesbaden: Kreidel 1911.
- Cultural values of technology : Speech to celebrate the birthday of Sr. Majesty the Emperor, held on Jan. 27, 1921 at the Kgl. Techn. Hochsch. Hanover , Berlin: Springer 1912.
- Concrete and reinforced concrete in railway construction. Brief presentation of the practical experience , Charlottenburg: Zementverlag 1925.
- High-quality cement , Charlottenburg: Zementverlag 1926.
- The solid construction. Stone, concrete and reinforced concrete construction , Berlin a. a .: Springer 1926.
- The Hamburg-Frankfurt-Basel motorway. Purpose and goals of the "Hafraba" association , Hanover: Göhmann [approx. 1927].
- Concrete in road construction , Charlottenburg: Zementverlag 1928.
- Three years at Hafraba. In: Hafraba-Mitteilungsblatt, 1929, No. 11, p. 3.
- On the 50th birthday of Heinrich Spangenberg , Munich. In: Die Bauzeitung, 1929, issue 3, pp. 19-20.
- On the systematics of the German highway construction. In: Bautechnik 1931, No. 26.
literature
- Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hanover, 1931, p. 76.
- Ingrid Strohkark: The perception of "landscape" and the construction of motorways in Germany, France and Italy before 1933. In: Der Straßenbau , born 1929–1937.
- Walther Killy, Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . (Volume 7) Saur, Munich, 1998.
- Karl-Eugen Kurrer : German Steel Construction Day in Hanover , in: Stahlbau , 84th year (2015), no. 2, pp. 143–151.
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert Otzen in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Jörn Bahns: Otzen, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 717 f. ( Digitized version ).
Directors: Karl Karmarsch (1831–1875) | Wilhelm Launhardt (1875–1880)
Rectors: Wilhelm Launhardt (1880–1886) | Karl Dolezalek (1886-1892) | Wilhelm Kohlrausch (1892–1895) | Albert Frank (1895–1898) | Heinrich Köhler (1898–1901) | Ludwig Kiepert (1901–1904) | Georg Barkhausen (1904–1907) | Hermann Ost (1907–1910) | Franz Frese (1910–1911) | Karl Mohrmann (1911–1913) | Robert Otzen (1913–1915) | Carl Heim (1915–1917) | Ludwig Troske (1917–1919) | Conrad Müller (1919–1923) | Ernst Vetterlein (1923–1925) | Fritz Oesterlen (1925–1927) | Friedrich Quincke (1927–1929) | Otto Blum (1929–1931) | Ludwig Klein (1931–1933) | Otto Franzius (1933–1934) | Horst von Sanden (1934–1937) | Hanns Simons (1937–1939) | Alexander Matting (1940-1943) | Helmut Pfannmüller (1943–1945) | Conrad Müller (1945–1947) | Otto Flachsbart (1947–1950) | Walter Großmann (1950–1951) | Hermann Deckert (1951–1952) | Walter Hensen (1952–1954) | Hans Schönfeld (1954–1956) | Johannes Schlums (1956–1957) | Walter Theilacker (1957–1958) | Wilhelm Nicolaisen (1958–1959) | Egon Martyrer (1959–1960) | Wilhelm Wortmann (1960–1961) | Hans-Oskar Wilde (1961–1963) | Albert Vierling (1963–1964) | Walter Renard (1964–1966) | Theodor Kaluza (1966–1968) | Alf Pflüger (1968–1969) | Eduard Pestel (1969–1970) | Hermann Böhrs (1970–1971) | Jürgen Wehrmann (1971–1972) | Lothar Hübl (1973–1974) | Gerhart Laage (1974–1975) | Hinrich Seidel (1975–1977) | Otwin Massing (1977–1978) | Klaus Schäfer (1978–1979)
President: Hinrich Seidel (1979–1997) | Ludwig Schätzl (1997–2005) | Erich Barke (2005–2014) | Volker Epping (since 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Otzen, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Otzen, Ehlert Robert Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil engineer, inventor of the word “Autobahn” and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Giesensdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 3, 1934 |
| Place of death | Hanover |