Siegfried Dyck

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Siegfried Dyck (born August 3, 1926 in Landsberg / Warthe ; † March 23, 2017 ) was a German hydrologist and university professor .

Life

Siegfried Dyck studied civil engineering at the TH Dresden from 1947 to 1952, specializing in hydraulic engineering. In 1956 he received his doctorate there.

As a Dipl.-Ing. he went to the Institute for Water Management (IfW) in Berlin. There Dyck soon took over the management of the department "Hydrology and Water Volume Management".

In 1967 Dyck was appointed professor at the Technical University of Dresden and became the head of the newly founded Institute for Hydrology . The Dresden School of Hydrology was very interdisciplinary. This was unique in Germany well into the 1970s.

The international appreciation of Dyck's work was also evident in the functions assigned to him: President of the International Commission for Water Resources Systems , elected first Vice President of the IAHS from 1987 to 1991, activities in the IHD and the IHP of UNESCO and the OHP of the WMO . In 1992 the IAHS awarded him the International Hydrology Price .

Dyck was a corresponding member of the GDR Academy of Sciences since 1986 and a full member since 1990 .

Works (selection)

  • The recording of the compensatory effect of dams with the help of storage utilization lines . Dissertation Dresden 1956.
  • Procedure for determining the storage effect of multi-year storage tanks on the basis of probability theory . Habil. Dresden 1966.
  • Applied hydrology / Part 1. Calculation and regulation of the flow of rivers . Berlin 1976.
  • Applied hydrology / Part 2. The water balance of the river basins . Berlin 1978.
  • Basics of hydrology . Berlin 1983. (with Gerd Peschke)

literature

  • Robert Schwarze and Franz Lennartz: 85th birthday of Prof. (em) Dr.-Ing. habil. Siegfried Dyck . In: hydrology and water management . 55 (2011), no. 4, p. 234f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , in: Sächsische Zeitung from April 1, 2017
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Siegfried Dyck. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 17, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Dyck, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hydrologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg / Warthe
DATE OF DEATH 23rd March 2017