Wilhelm Fig
Wilhelm Abb (born August 22, 1915 in Aschaffenburg ; † December 18, 2010 ) was a German geodesist and Bavarian administrative officer .
Life
Abb attended the humanistic grammar school in Aschaffenburg and studied surveying and cultural engineering in Munich at the Technical University of Munich between 1935 and 1939 with Martin Näbauer . After serving in the air force in 1948, he passed the Great State Examination for the higher surveying administration service and for the higher land consolidation service in Bavaria and received his doctorate in 1956 under Max Kneißl. In 1965 he took over the management of the Bavarian land consolidation administration. In 1978 he was chairman of the federal and state working group for land consolidation (ArgeFlurb). In 1970 he became a full member of the German Geodetic Commission (DGK) in theBavarian Academy of Sciences appointed. At his suggestion, the working group “Rural Reorganization” was founded within the DGK in 1979 and he was entrusted with the chairmanship. In 1979 he became head of the Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests . Abb's merits include the early use of IT as well as the thematic and personnel expansion of the Bavarian land consolidation administration.
Abb was a member of the board of directors of the German Association for Surveying (DVW), the advisory and supervisory board of the “Society for Regional Culture”, the “Four-Country Circle of Friends”, President of the “Deutsche Akademie Rändlicher Raum” and the first chairman of ArgeFlurb ( today's ArgeLand development). He was editor of the "Bavarian Agricultural Yearbook" and author of more than 80 scientific articles.
He was buried in the Ostfriedhof in Munich.
Honors
- Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany , October 20, 1970.
- Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Surveying at the Technical University of Munich, July 28, 1980.
- State gold medal from the Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests , December 18, 1980.
- Bavarian Order of Merit , June 25, 1981
- Honorary President of the German Academy for Research and Planning in Rural Areas, January 22, 1986.
Fonts
- The acceleration of the surveying process of land consolidation in Bavaria - Munich, TH, F. f. Bauw., Diss. V. March 23, 1956. - From: Bayerisches Landwirtschaftliches Jahrbuch, 1956, special issue 3
- Three years of ArgeFlurb, a balance sheet - Munich: Bayer. State Ministry f. Food, agriculture, etc. Forsten, 1981. - Series of publications by the working group Land consolidation 7 (with Holger Magel)
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Abb in the catalog of the German National Library
- Holger Magel , short biography at the Bavarian Order of Merit
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Holger Magel: "Wilhelm Abb died". In: zfv - Journal for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management , 136th year, No. 1/2011, ISSN 1618-8950 , p. 59 f.
- ^ Part in: Süddeutsche Zeitung December 22, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fig, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geodesist and administrative officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aschaffenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 2010 |