Walther Kunze (civil engineer)

Walther Kunze (born February 5, 1890 in Leipzig , † August 22, 1952 in Waldheim ) was a German civil engineer.

Life

Walther Kunze was the son of the businessman Ernst Ad. Kunze. He attended the Realgymnasium Leipzig and studied from 1909 to 1914 at the TH Dresden . During his studies in 1909 he became a member of the Cheruscia Dresden fraternity . He then worked as a government construction manager for the Saxon road and hydraulic engineering authorities in Meißen , Leipzig , Döbeln , Chemnitz and Dresden. With his dissertation on the determination of reinforced concrete cross-sections under eccentric compressive forces , he received his doctorate in Dresden in 1916. In 1918 he successfully passed the examination as a government master builder. In 1920 he completed his habilitation. He became an associate professor at the TH Dresden.

From 1926 to 1931 he was head of the State New Building Office for the laying of the ditch in Glauchau . He then went to Turkey as a hydraulic engineering expert, where he worked for the local government. In Ankara he took over the local leadership of the NSDAP .

In 1946 Kunze was arrested in Chemnitz and imprisoned in the Soviet special camp Buchenwald . In 1950 he was handed over to the GDR authorities, and in 1952 he died in Waldheim prison .

literature

• Degeners who is it? , Berlin 1935, p. 917.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. Directory of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 279.
2. ^ Matthias Lienert: Between Resistance and Repression: Students of the TU Dresden 1946-1989, Edition 1, Verlag Böhlau Cologne, 2011, ISBN 3412205982 . Page 16.