Wilhelm Klingenberg (civil engineer)

Wilhelm Klingenberg (born February 19, 1899 in Hanover , † November 16, 1981 in Bonn ) was a German civil engineer .

Wilhelm Klingenberg grew up in Hanover and studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Hanover . At the beginning of the 1920s he did his doctorate under Robert Otzen at the chair for iron construction and statics.

After completing his studies, he worked in the construction industry, initially in the bridge construction department of Gutehoffnungshütte in (Oberhausen-) Sterkrade . In 1923 he was employed as a structural engineer and later as a senior engineer at the German Customs Building Licensing Society, which marketed the construction of the arched lamella roof by Friedrich Zollinger . In 1928 Klingenberg finally went to Hugo Junkers GmbH as a department head of the steel construction company. He later became deputy managing director there and dealt primarily with wide-span steel hall constructions.

After the Second World War , Klingenberg worked in the public building administration. In the road construction department in Hanover, he was responsible for the reconstruction of road bridges. In 1948 Klingenberg then became a consultant for bridge construction in the main administration road in the Bizone ; Even then, he systematically promoted the construction of road bridges in steel composite. In the successor authority, the Federal Ministry of Transport , he was promoted to Ministerialrat in 1951 and to Ministerialdirigent in 1962. During his tenure, which lasted until 1964, the interests represented by the Federal at a number of major bridge projects, such as in the Fehmarn bridge , the slope bridge Krahnberg or Emmerich Rhine Bridge .

literature

Klaus Stiglat : Civil engineers and their work. Ernst & Sohn , Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-433-01665-8 , p. 219.

Web links

Literature by and about Wilhelm Klingenberg in the catalog of the German National Library

proof

↑ Eberhard Pelke , Karl-Eugen Kurrer : On the history of the development of composite steel construction , in: Stahlbau , Volume 85, Issue 11, 2016, pp. 764–780, here pp. 772f.

personal data
SURNAME	Klingenberg, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 19, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	November 16, 1981
Place of death	Bonn

[1] Eberhard Pelke , Karl-Eugen Kurrer : On the history of the development of composite steel construction , in: Stahlbau , Volume 85, Issue 11, 2016, pp. 764–780, here pp. 772f.