Wilhelm Detig

Wilhelm Detig (born June 14, 1890 in Frankfurt am Main , † June 26, 1958 in Marburg ) was a German hydraulic engineer and university professor .

Life

He attended the Königliches Kaiser-Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main and studied at the Technical University in Darmstadt , where he passed the main diploma examination for civil engineers in 1913. Then he went to the Prussian hydraulic engineering administration. After the First World War he worked as a young government master builder building bridges on the lower Oder. From 1924 to 1929 he was the construction manager of the Aggertalsperre . After that, he was entrusted with the foundation work for the construction of the Niederfinow ship lift . From 1934 to 1939 Detig was director of the Meppen Waterways Authority . In the first years of the Second World War he was posted to France to restore the French waterway network . In August 1941 he was appointed to the chair for hydraulic engineering and foundation engineering at the Technical University in Darmstadt as the successor to Karl Thürnau . The hydraulic engineering research institute built in 1933 fell victim to air raids in September 1944. After the war he first set up an institute for foundation engineering and soil mechanics.

Detig dedicated his workforce at the Technical University in Darmstadt to rebuilding after the war. Among other things, he played a key role in the construction of a new, large hydraulic engineering test hall and the creation of a second chair for hydromechanics and hydraulic engineering.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Lippert: Professor W. Detig †. Die Wasserwirtschaft 48 1957/1958 No. 12, pp. 331-332; Robert Lippert: ord Professor Dipl.- Ing. W. Detig † Die Bautechnik 35, 1958 no. 12 pp. 495-496; Detig, Wilhelm; Technical University of Darmstadt , [1] ; Hessian biography, in Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS), [2]