Walter Kemmerling

Walter Kemmerling (born June 28, 1921 in Essen , † September 22, 1989 in Celle ) was a German hydraulic engineering technician and university professor . From 1983 to 1987 he was rector of the Vienna University of Technology .

Life

Walter Kemmerling studied civil engineering from 1940 and interrupted by war and captivity from 1945 to 1949 at the Technical University of Hanover with a focus on hydraulic engineering. In 1957 he received his doctorate in technology. From 1949 to 1955 he worked as an assistant at the Technical University of Hanover in the field of urban water management and agricultural hydraulic engineering, from 1955 to 1973 he carried out scientific activities as an employee of the Lower Saxony state government in Hildesheim and Celle, among others.

In 1968 he was given a teaching position at the University of Göttingen , in 1969 a visiting professorship at the Technical University of Vienna , where he was appointed full professor for water regulation and agricultural hydraulic engineering in 1970. In the academic years 1979/80 to 1981/82 he was dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, from 1983/84 to 1986/87 rector of the Technical University of Vienna . During his tenure, the Freihaus building complex could be partially occupied. In 1984 his wife Gisela founded the Vienna University of Technology orchestra .

From 1985 to 1987 Kemmerling was chairman of the Austrian Rectors' Conference and thus the first rector of the Vienna University of Technology to hold this office.

He was a member of the Catholic student associations AV Frisia Hannover (since 1946), KÖHV Alpenland Vienna (since 1982) and KÖHV Nordgau Vienna (since 1982).

Awards

Publications (selection)

1982: Ecology of rivers - engineering biological safety measures / 2nd seminar landscape water engineering at the TU Vienna , Institute for water quality and landscape water engineering at the TU Vienna

1983: The disposal of hazardous special waste / 6th seminar on waste management at the Vienna University of Technology , Institute for Water Quality and Landscape Water Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology

1984: Investigations into the rapid degassing of landfills , together with Walter Scharf, Institute for Water Quality and Landscape Water Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology / Federal Ministry for Health and Environmental Protection

1985: Revitalization of rivers / 3rd seminar landscape water engineering at the TU Vienna , together with Emil Wurzer, Institute for water quality and landscape water engineering at the TU Vienna

1985: Revitalization of gravel pits / 4th seminar landscape water engineering at the TU Vienna , together with Otto Vollhofer, Institute for water quality and landscape water engineering at the TU Vienna

1986: Design of reservoirs close to nature / 5th seminar on landscape water engineering at the Vienna University of Technology , together with Walter Binder, Institute for Water Quality and Landscape Water Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology

1986: Selected problems of reservoir design / 6th seminar landscape water engineering at the TU Vienna , together with Karl-Heinz Hartge, Institute for water quality and landscape water engineering at the TU Vienna

1986: Requirements for landfills - basics for the draft guideline / 7th seminar on waste management at the Vienna University of Technology , together with Leopold Zahrer, Institute for Water Quality and Landscape Water Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology

1986: Selected chapters from waste management and landscape water engineering, together with Erwin Binner, Institute for Water Quality and Landscape Water Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology

1988: Water management and water quality: Status of the water quality assessment , together with Heinz Flamm, Austrian Society for Nature and Environmental Protection

1988: Natural and landscape-appropriate care and maintenance of rivers / 7th seminar landscape water engineering at the Vienna University of Technology , together with Alois Baumgartinger, Institute for Water Quality and Landscape Water Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology in cooperation with the Austrian Society for Nature and Environmental Protection

literature

Felix Czeike (Ed.): Kemmerling, Walter. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 491 ( digitized version ).
Juliane Mikoletzky, Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber (editor): A Collection of Extraordinary Completeness / A Collection of Unusual Completeness: Die Rektorengalerie der Technische Universität Wien / The Gallery of Rectors of the TU Wien . Festschrift 200 Years of Technical University Vienna, Volume 13, Vienna, Böhlau-Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-20113-7 , page 150

Web links

Walter Kemmerling in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Individual evidence

^ Orchestra of the Technical University of Vienna . Retrieved July 11, 2016.
^ Walter Kemmerling in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

personal data
SURNAME	Kemmerling, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German hydraulic engineering technician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 28, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH	eat
DATE OF DEATH	September 22, 1989
Place of death	Celle

[1] Orchestra of the Technical University of Vienna . Retrieved July 11, 2016.

[2] Walter Kemmerling in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna