Ulrich Gabler

This article deals with the German shipbuilding engineer Ulrich Gabler. For the Protestant theologian Ulrich Gäbler see Ulrich Gäbler .

Ulrich Gabler (born October 1, 1913 in Berlin ; † February 24, 1994 in Lübeck ) was a German shipbuilding engineer who specialized in the design and development of diesel-powered submarines .

education

Gabler grew up as the son of the director of the Oldenburg old grammar school Carl Gabler (1880-1960) in Oldenburg , where he passed the matriculation examination in 1932. He studied mechanical engineering and shipbuilding at the Technical University of Charlottenburg and joined the Academic Song Board in the Association of Special Houses . In 1938, as a graduate engineer, he became an employee of the Lübeck engineering office for shipbuilding .

Second World War

At the beginning of the Second World War , the reserve lieutenant (engineer) signed up for the U-boat weapon of the Kriegsmarine and after a short training became a chief engineer on the U 121 , a pure training submarine, and on the front boat U 564 that was used in the North Atlantic.

After a stopover in 1942 as a first lieutenant (engineer) in the training unit in Pillau , he was released from service in the Navy in 1943 for submarine construction in Kiel . He worked as a designer and developer on the class XXII , XVII A and XXVI submarines . It was about equipping these boats with the so-called Walter turbine . From 1944 Gabler worked in the submarine design office Ingenieurbüro Glückauf in Blankenburg (Harz) , where the development of the Walter XXVI submarine took place under naval construction director Karl Fischer. This medium-sized submarine was developed with the aim of being able to drive submerged to periscope depth with the diesel drive instead of the electric drive by means of a snorkel . Gabler was now a lieutenant captain (engineer) and, as head of department in Blankenburg, was also responsible for the development of the small submarine Delphin , of which only three prototypes were built by the end of the war. By the end of the war, none of the XXVI boats planned in Blankenburg were made ready for use. At the beginning of 1945, after completing his duties in Blankenburg as a flotilla engineer , Gabler was ordered to Wilhelmshaven to convert the school boats from Pillau and Memel that had arrived there from East Prussia for use as front boats .

Post-war period, engineering office Lübeck (IKL)

In 1945 Gabler returned to the engineering office in Lübeck. This belonged to the Krupp concern and was dissolved by the occupying power. In 1949 he founded the Travewerft Ebschner & Gabler together with Fritz Ebschner , which closed in 1958. Gabler and Ebschner then went into business for themselves in the same area of ​​responsibility and founded the Lübeck engineering office (IKL). The IKL was active from 1958 with the rearmament with the old knowledge in the development of submarines for the Federal Republic of Germany and other clients. As the German market leader in this field, the IKL developed all post-war classes of conventional submarines for the German Navy under the leadership of Gabler and Christoph Aschmoneit . The submarine class 209 was an export success for the German shipyard industry. In 1958 Gabler was appointed lecturer for “ special shipbuilding” (naval shipbuilding) at the University of Hamburg and in 1963 was appointed honorary professor. In 1978 he retired. The IKL was taken over in 1994 by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Kiel .

Ulrich Gabler Foundation

The proceeds from the sale of his IKL shares went to a charitable foundation that Ulrich Gabler established during his lifetime, as did his estate.

Ulrich Gabler House

Ulrich Gabler House (2014)

The foundation is building the Ulrich Gabler House, completed in 2014, on the corner of Schüsselbuden and Alfstrasse, west of Lübeck's Marienkirche. The house serves the disabled facility Vorwerker Diakonie , with which Gabler was long connected, with a café, shop, weaving mill, pottery, various workshops, communication center, school for curative education and offices; as a separate unit it contains police offices. The building by the architects Konermann Siegmund received the Otto Borst Prize 2014 for urban renewal in the category of single objects, the BDA Prize Schleswig-Holstein 2015, was on the shortlist for the BDA Architecture Prize Nike and was given an award at the German Architecture Prize 2015. The clinker bricks for the historical-looking facade are made using the water-struck method to ensure a site-specific look.

Awards

• Iron Cross , 2nd and 1st class
• War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords
• German Cross in Gold (October 15, 1942)

Works

• Submarine construction. 4th edition 1994.

literature

• Eberhard Rössler : Ulrich Gabler . In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . tape XI . Neumünster 2000, p. 123-125 .
• Peter Kayser (Ed.): Ulrich Gabler 1913 to 1994: Biography of a Lübeck engineer - entrepreneur - founder. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2013 ISBN 978-3-7950-7101-1
• Lutz Nohse, Eberhard Rössler: Constructions for the world - history of the Gabler companies IKL and MG. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH 1992 ISBN 3782205529

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein foundation database : Ulrich Gabler Foundation ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Ulrich-Gabler-Haus , accessed on June 5, 2017
4. ^ Ulrich Höhns: BDA Prize 2015 Architecture in Schleswig-Holstein . Ed .: Bund Deutscher Architekten BDA Landesverband Schleswig-Holstein. Wachholtz Verlag - Murmann Publishers, Kiel / Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-529-02881-6 , pp. 13-15 .
5. ^ Association of German Architects. Retrieved April 1, 2019 . 
6. ↑ BBR - German Architecture Prize 2015. Accessed April 1, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Site-specific building in existing buildings - Ulrich Gabler House. Accessed June 18, 2018 .