Walter Bernatzik

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Walter Bernatzik (* 3. May 1899 in Vienna , † 16th September 1953 in Benediktbeuern ) was an Austrian civil engineer for geotechnical engineering .

After graduating from high school in Vienna (1915) and the subsequent military service (1915–1918), Bernatzik studied civil engineering at the Vienna University of Technology from 1919 . He completed this course in 1925 with a diploma and was then from 1926 at Wayss & Freytag in Düsseldorf and Berlin . In 1929 he directed the construction of a dam on behalf of the Turkish government. In 1931 he became Karl von Terzaghi's assistant at the Vienna University of Technology, where he received his doctorate in 1932. He worked for the construction company Rodio in Milan mainly in the field of soil injection (at Christian Veder's side ) and headed their Paris earthwork laboratory. In 1938 he worked as a freelance consulting engineer, but a year later in 1939 he became a lecturer in soil mechanics at the TH Dresden and managing director of the Earthworks Institute. In 1941 he completed his habilitation , in 1943 he became a professor at the TH Dresden. From 1945 he headed the Siemens-Bauunion branch in Innsbruck and from 1949 had his own engineering office including a laboratory, which specialized in soil injections with cement, for example for the renovation of foundations. Between 1950 and 1953 he worked at the Hennetalsperre Ruhr and at the Hessigheim / Neckar power station.

In 1947 he published his textbook Soil and Physics in the Swiss printing and publishing house in Zurich.

literature

  • Obituary by Richard Jelinek , Der Bauingenieur, Volume 28, 1953, p. 450.
  • Obituary by Ahrens, Die Bautechnik, Volume 30, 1953, p. 366.
  • Bernatzik, Walter. In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 80.

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  1. ↑ Rodio was a friend of Terzaghi's at the time and regularly took students from him
  2. ↑ In the 1930s, alongside a French company, one of Giovanni Rodio's main competitors in the field of soil grouting
personal data
SURNAME Bernatzik, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1953
Place of death Benediktbeuern