Volker Hahn

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Volker Hahn (born April 19, 1923 in Nordheim ; † August 21, 2011 in Stuttgart ) was a German civil engineer at Züblin , where he was a member of the board.

biography

Both grandfathers were respected personalities in the wine town of Nordheim (one senior teacher, the other mayor), Hahn's father (Siegbert Hahn) was a building officer in Heilbronn , where the family moved and where Volker Hahn went to school. In 1943 he was drafted and served on the Eastern Front, but was released in 1945 after being wounded for a third time. From 1946 to 1950 he studied civil engineering at the TH Stuttgart and was hired by the city of Heilbronn in 1949 and was construction manager for one of the first prestressed concrete bridges (Canal Harbor Bridge, Peter Bruckmann Bridge, span around 100 m) after the war. From 1949 he was with the Züblin company. There he also worked on his doctorate, which took place in 1953. He developed his own pre-stressing process for prestressed concrete, pre-stressed spun concrete pipes and a system for assembling multi-storey buildings made of precast concrete parts (6M system), which was used a lot in schools and administration buildings.

He became head of the technical office and development at Züblin, in 1964 he was appointed director, then became special representative and in 1971 a member of the board of directors.

In 1963, through the mediation of Fritz Leonhardt , with whom he already had contacts at the Canal Harbor Bridge in Heilbronn, he received a teaching position at the TH Stuttgart.

At Züblin he worked a lot internationally, for example a bridge over the Río Caroní in Venezuela made of prestressed concrete with cantilever construction (with Fritz Leonhardt), civil engineering in Doha in Qatar and Baghdad , ports in Thailand and Iran. He made suggestions for high-speed lines for the Federal Railways, environmental protection and noise protection, and he accompanied Züblin's specialization in tunneling and civil engineering. In 1988 he retired.

Together with Fritz Leonhardt and Friedrich Wilhelm Bornscheuer , he founded the computing institute for construction (RIB) in Stuttgart (today RIB Software AG) in 1961 , after meeting an IBM representative when they became aware of the new possibilities of computer technology for static calculations and calculations. At that time Hahn was also in contact with Konrad Zuse , who was himself a civil engineer and developed one of the first program-controlled computers to relieve the civil engineer of the arithmetic work. Numerous programs for the construction industry have been developed at the RIB. In 1987 Hahn received the Konrad Zuse Medal for services to computer science.

After his retirement he published on the social role of construction (for example urban sprawl, desolate suburbs) and suggested the establishment of the Bauen Foundation , of which he was chairman and later honorary chairman. He also organized cultural events in the Züblinhaus in Stuttgart-Möhringen, built in 1984.

In 1987 he received the Emil Mörsch Memorial Medal . In 2000 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class.

Fonts

  • with Martin Beyer: Massivbrücken, Ernst and Son 1968
  • with Alfred Steinle: Building with precast concrete elements in building construction, Berlin: Ernst and Son, 1991, 1998
  • Building in a dead end? Considerations for a new beginning, DVA 1992
  • as editor: Building for a mobile society, lectures, held on September 17, 1999 in Stuttgart, Stiftung Bauwesen 1999
  • As editor: The civil engineer and his social task,: Lectures, held on January 26, 1996 in Stuttgart, Stiftung Bauwesen 1996
  • as editor: The civil engineer and his cultural responsibility: Lectures, held on October 13, 2000 in Stuttgart, Stiftung Bauwesen 2000
  • as editor: Energie und Bau, lectures, held on February 20, 2004 in Stuttgart, event organized by the Bauwesen Foundation, Stuttgart 2004

literature

  • Klaus Stiglat : Civil engineers and their work , Ernst and Son 2004

Web links

  • Ulrich Berger: Prof. Dr. Ing.Volker Hahn, an important man in the construction industry, pdf

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Eugen Kurrer : History of structural engineering. In search of balance , Berlin: Ernst & Sohn 2016, p. 868, ISBN 978-3-433-03134-6
personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordheim
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2011
Place of death Stuttgart