Robert von Halász

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Robert von Halász (born July 24, 1905 in Höxter ; † November 28, 2004 ) was a German civil engineer.

biography

Halász grew up in Colmar and moved to Berlin with his family (his father was a civil servant) after the end of the First World War, when Alsace became French again. After graduating from high school, he studied civil engineering there from 1925 to 1930 at the TH Charlottenburg . Then he took over the management of the molding sand and lignite mines Petersburg, since he could not find a job as a civil engineer because of the economic depression at the time. Then he was head of the technical office of the Plattner company in Munich, which manufactured wooden structures (for example for halls) from prefabricated components. From 1937 he also taught engineering school in Berlin and was a consultant at the Reich Office for Structural Analysis. He had the idea of ​​applying his experience with prefabricated components in timber construction to concrete construction, and for this he was seconded to Preussag , where he became chief engineer and manager of the Rüdersdorf concrete plant in 1943, where he began to manufacture prefabricated reinforced concrete elements for industrial halls. To do this, he developed a special high-strength concrete (B600). He received his doctorate in 1945 (his printed dissertation burned when the printing plant was bombed) and received research contracts from Russia immediately after the war.

In 1946 he received a teaching position at the TU Berlin and in 1948 he became professor for building construction there. At the TU Berlin, he also introduced building physics into the curriculum. In Berlin, prefabricated construction was soon applied to residential construction after the war and Halasz made important contributions to large panel construction (corresponding to the prefabricated construction method in the GDR). He himself not only propagated the prefabricated building method, but also moved from Dahlem to the roof terrace of a recently completed prefabricated building in Spandau (Heerstraße). He was also active in wood construction and made contributions to the wood construction pocketbook (from 1943 as editor, therefore named for a long time among engineers at Halasz ). In 1973 he retired from the TU Berlin and founded an engineering office with colleagues in which he was active for another 25 years. His students included u. a. Erich Cziesielski and Claus Scheer; He also promoted Karl-Eugen Kurrer's research on the history of vaults and structural engineering.

1954 to 1985 he was editor of the magazine Bautechnik . Halász gave the Series Civil Practice published by Ernst & Sohn out.

In 1980 he received the Federal Cross of Merit and in 1982 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Dortmund .

literature

  • Klaus Stiglat (Ed.): Civil engineers and their work , Ernst and Son 2004
  • Jürgen Bauer , Claus Scheer and Erich Cziesielski (eds.): Contributions to construction technology. Dedicated to Robert von Halász on the occasion of his 75th birthday . Berlin: Wilhelm Ernst & Son .
  • Michael Wobring and Johannes Laufer: Photographs from the pioneering days of special concrete construction as textbook illustration and image document of forced labor in the Preussag concrete plant in Rüdersdorf near Berlin . In: Technikgeschichte, vol. 77 (2010), no. 1, pp. 3-18 (for the biography of Robert v. Halász see p. 9ff.).

Fonts

  • Industrialization of construction technology. - Building and construction with precast reinforced concrete elements, Werner Verlag 1966

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert von Halász on structurae.de, accessed on October 4, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Halász, Robert von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Höxter
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2004