Victor Rizkallah

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Victor Rizkallah in April 2018 during the business reception of Leibniz University Hannover

Victor Rizkallah (born October 7, 1933 in Cairo ) is a German - Egyptian civil engineer in the field of geotechnics , scientist and consulting engineer .

Life

After completing an apprenticeship as a banker, Rizkallah studied civil engineering at the University of Cairo until 1958. He then switched to Alfred Streck at Leibniz University in Hanover , where he received his doctorate on pile design under Erich Lackner in 1968 ( the static measurement of walls and piles in sandy soils ) and received his habilitation in 1973 with a thesis on large bored piles. In 1963 he married Ursula Rizkallah and in 1970 he was granted German citizenship. In 1978 he received a professorship for foundation engineering and soil mechanics at the University of Hanover . From 1981 to 1982 he was Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Surveying, from 1981 to 2001 Electoral Senator of the Academic Senate of the University of Hanover and from 1982 to 2002 Chairman of the International Commission for University Affairs. From 1982 to 1984 he was vice president of his university.

In 1986, with the support of the DAAD Bonn, the University of Hanover and the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Art, he founded the first international master's degree at the University of Hanover for talented graduates with Bachelor's degrees from emerging countries.

Rizkallah was President of the Lower Saxony Chamber of Engineers from 1996 to 2004 and founded the Victor Rizkallah Foundation in 1994, which is dedicated to promoting domestic and foreign students. By 2014, the foundation had awarded over 160 sponsorship awards and travel grants of over EUR 175,000.

Rizkallah has published a total of over 100 articles in national and international journals and supervised over 300 diploma theses, 22 doctorates and 2 post-doctoral theses.

In 1981 he founded the consulting company Prof. Dr.-Ing. Victor Rizkallah + Partner Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH for engineering consulting in the field of earthworks and foundation engineering, constructive port construction, offshore foundations, dam construction, structural damage research and preservation of evidence. Since 2014, Rizkallah has been the Egyptian President's personal advisor on issues relating to higher education, vocational training, general further education and infrastructure.

A few days after his 70th birthday, on October 14, 2003, Rizkallah was made an honorary citizen of the University of Hanover, while on the same day and for the tenth time, advancement awards and travel grants were awarded to students at the University of Hanover. Two weeks later, Rizkallah was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Duisburg-Essen .

Due to its cosmopolitan background, Rizkallah speaks five languages ​​(German, English, French, Italian and Arabic).

He is a member of the VBI .

Web links

Commons : Victor Rizkallah  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature (selection)

  • Victor Rizkallah (Ed.): Building damage in civil engineering: Standard work on damage detection and damage avoidance . Fraunhofer IRB-Verl., Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8167-7292-7 , p. 309 .
  • Victor Rizkallah: Structural damage in special civil engineering: (construction pits, pipe jacking, underground construction systems) . Inst. For foundation engineering for soil mechanics and hydraulic energy engineering Univ, Hannover 1990, p. 72 .
  • Victor Rizkallah: The static design of walls and piles in sandy soils . Techn. Univ., Diss. - Hanover, 1968. Chair for Ground Mechanics and Hydraulic Energy Engineering and Inst. For Soil Mechanics at the Techn. Univ, Hanover 1970, p. 40 .
  • Victor Rizkallah (ed.): Shaping the future: retrospectives, moments, prospects; 10 years of Lower Saxony Chamber of Engineers . Chamber of Engineers Lower Saxony, Hannover 2000, p. 50 .
  • Victor Rizkallah, Martin Achmus, Joachim Kaiser: Structural damage when building in existing structures: Causes of damage and avoidance of damage . Institute for Building Research eV, Hanover 2003, p. 68 .
  • Victor Rizkallah, K. Keese: Behavior of soils at risk of subsidence, in particular loess-like soils with a macroporous structure in Lower Saxony: Research report . Hanover 1989, p. 70 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel: Lower Saxony Chamber of Engineers elects new President / Hans-Ullrich Kammeyer elected unanimously / Marlies Bock-Thürnau new Vice-President . Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  2. ↑ Stefanie Beier: Honorary Citizen of the University for Professor Rizkallah , article from October 14, 2003 on the website of the Science Information Service (idw), last accessed on April 11, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Rizkallah, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian civil engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo