Rolf Kracke

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Rolf Kracke (born May 11, 1932 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ; † February 8, 2010 ) was a German engineer. He developed a concept for the synchronous simulation of railway networks.

Life

School and study

As the son of the Reichsbahnamtsrat Fritz Kracke and his wife Hertha, née Aust, he attended elementary school for four years. After that he went to the Friedrichwerdersches Gymnasium in Berlin-Hermsdorf from Easter 1942 . He completed the Andreanum grammar school in Hildesheim from December 1945 to Easter 1951, when he passed the Abitur exam there. Then he studied from 1951 at the Technical University of Hanover , the specialist civil engineering . In June 1956 he obtained a diploma there in the field of structural engineering .

Worked for the Federal Railroad

He then completed an apprenticeship at the Hanover Federal Railway Directorate. In 1957 he took part in the Schinkel competition and won first prize with the Schinkel badge. In June 1959 he passed the major state examination of the Higher Examination Office for the higher technical administration career. At the Federal Railroad he then took up a position as Federal Railroad Construction Assessor. At the same time he was transferred to the Chair of Transport Management, Railway Construction and Operation at the TH Aachen . He was promoted to the Federal Railroad Council on February 1, 1961. From February 1962, he took up a job at the Aachen Federal Railroad Operations Office .

Doctorate and appointment to the TH Hannover

On May 20, 1963, he passed the oral examination for the doctorate to become Dr.-Ing. at the TH Aachen with the topic of stationary and flying crossings on single-track main lines in operational and economic terms. with Hermann Nebelung as speaker and Wolfgang Schmitz (business economist) as co- speaker . Until he was appointed to the Institute for Transport, Railway Construction and Operation (IVE) at the University of Hanover as a full professor as the successor to Erwin Massute , he worked as a scientific assistant in the main administration of the Deutsche Bundesbahn . He worked on numerous research papers on transport policy issues, with questions of traffic and operational management in the German and European railways being the main topic. One focus of the work concerned the effective utilization of railway networks, whereby he developed a synchronous concept for the simulation of the networks.

By 1996 he published around 60 scientific papers in specialist journals. He himself worked in the editorial team of the ETR Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau magazine. In 1997 he retired . He was succeeded by Thomas Siefer .

membership

  • Member of the scientific advisory board in the Federal Ministry of Transport
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (from 1975)
  • Braunschweig Scientific Society (since 1976)
  • German Transport Science Society
  • Port construction company

Awards

Fonts

  • Stationary and flying crossings on single-track main lines in operational and economic terms , Aachen 1963
  • Market economy and public provision of traffic routes with Herbert Krüger and Hans Glaser, Hamburg 1969
  • Freight bypass line Bremen , with KH Jesberg, Hanover 1973
  • The new transport concept of the Deutsche Bundesbahn - Necessity and opportunity for the railroad with Wilhelm Wolters, Cologne 1978
  • Study to improve long-distance passenger rail passenger transport in the Franconian region with B. Keppeler, T. Siefer, J. Siegmann, U. Günther and B. Rohde, Stuttgart 1988
  • Future rail traffic in Germany and Europe , in: Planning or adaptation? - (Ed.): German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning eV -DASL-, Berlin, Hildesheim: 1989. pp. 141–151
  • City and environmentally compatible freight transport centers , in: Der Nahverkehr 1990, issue 4, pages 49–51
  • Computer-aided planning systems for track maintenance , in: EI Der Eisenbahningenieur 41 (1990) No. 7, pp. 361–363
  • CAD systems for the planning of maintenance work on railway tracks with Hartmut Dannenberg, in: Internationales Verkehrwesen 1990, Issue 1, pages 29–31
  • The intelligent train: Memorandum on research and development tasks for rail transport of the future , Bonn 1990
  • Possibilities for improvement of the area development for national transports , Hanover 1991
  • Intermodal holds the key to European freight travel with Jürgen Siegmann, in: Railway Gazette International 1992, issue 3, pages 179–189
  • Freight transport systems and centers with Johannes Hildebrandt, Wolf-Rüdiger Runge and Wolfgang Voges, in: Spatial planning aspects of large-scale transport infrastructure in Germany, series of publications by the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning (ARL) 1992
  • Engineering structures for the new lines of the Deutsche Bundesbahn , with Peter Koch and Theo Rahnstadt as editors, Darmstadt 1992
  • Representation of the cause / effect relationships of various superstructure maintenance strategies with the help of system dynamics models with Dieter Schmidt, Reinhart Schroeder-Baumgart and Erich Zahn, in: Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau 1992, issue 3, pages 133-143
  • Computer-aided operational planning for track maintenance with Heike Twele, In: Creating and maintaining railway systems, Edition ETR, Hestra-Verlag 1993
  • Freight traffic and distribution centers , with Johannes Hildebrandt, Wolf-Rüdiger Runge, and Wolfgang Voges, in: Isermann (Ed.): Logistik, Verlag Moderne Industrie, Landsberg 1994
  • Rail-bound traffic with Volker Stölting, contribution to the concise dictionary of the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning (ARL), 1994
  • The European high-speed network with Falk Fehsenfeld, ZEV / DET Glasers Annalen 1994, issue 3, pages 43-50
  • Automation and the private sector hold the keys to efficiency , with Jürgen Siegmann and Wolfgang Voges, in: Railway Gazette International 1995, issue 2, pages 86-88
  • Railway metropolis Berlin with Roland Heinisch and Peter Koch, Darmstadt 1996
  • Benefits of networking means of transport: possibilities and limits with Gerd Aberle, Bonn 1996
  • Slab track with Roland Heinisch and Eckart Lehmann, Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3777102695
  • The future of combined transport - what needs to be done? , Bergisch Gladbach 1999
  • Milestones in the development of railway infrastructure and operations management as reflected in the ETR , in: ETR Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau 51 (2002), special issue, pp. 20–47

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Concept for the simulation of railway networks ( memento of the original from November 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.via.rwth-aachen.de
  2. ↑ Curriculum vitae in the dissertation Standing and flying crossings on single-track main lines from an operational and economic point of view. Aachen 1963
  3. ↑ Glasers Annalen, Vol. 91-92 (1967), p. 338.
  4. ↑ Biographical note  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.tu-braunschweig.de  
  5. ↑ Kürschner's Scholars Calendar 1996, Berlin 1996, p. 733.
  6. ↑ Thomas Siefer as the successor to Rolf Kracke
  7. ^ Deutsche Bundesbahn, Annual Report of the Deutsche Bundesbahn 1975, Frankfurt / Main p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Kracke, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2010