Wilhelm Loos (civil engineer)
Wilhelm Loos (born March 1, 1890 in Butzbach , Hesse ; † April 4, 1952 in Klagenfurt ) was a German civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering .
Life
Wilhelm Loos studied civil engineering at the TH Darmstadt and then worked for construction companies in the Darmstadt and Düsseldorf area before he went to Batavia (Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies as a consulting engineer in 1922 . In 1930 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on his experiences in Indonesia ( critical examination of shallow and pile foundations, especially in the port areas of Dutch India ). Then he was assistant to Karl von Terzaghi in Vienna . From 1933 he was managing director of Degebo in Berlin . At first he was the deputy of the managing director Früh, on the initiative of Terzaghi, who was present at a Degebo conference in Freiberg in 1932 and found the organization inadequate, but replaced him in October 1933. At Degebo, he carried out research on road construction as part of the motorway projects. One of his employees was Herbert Breth . Loos led Degebo until July 1939 (his successor was R. Hoffmann) after he had been appointed professor for defense engineering at the end of 1938. After all, he had the rank of government builder. After the war he was supposed to be a professor at the TH Karlsruhe , where he took over the representation of the late Richard Schaffhauser from 1951 , but died shortly afterwards.
Fonts
- Practical applications of soil investigations: in the design and assessment of earthworks and foundations , Springer 1935, 3rd edition 1937
- Small subsoil theory: a brief introduction to soil mechanics and earthworks (edited by Heinz Graßhoff ), Müller, Cologne-Braunsfeld 1955
- with Kurd Endell , Herbert Breth, connection between colloid chemical and soil physical indicators of cohesive soils and frost effects , research work from the road system, Verlag Volk und Reich 1939
- with Breth The calculation of elastically bedded beams and slabs: A critical consideration of the bedding method , technical booklets of the building and engineering school of the Hanseatic city of Bremen, series 6, booklet 3, Bremen-Horn 1948
literature
- Rolf Fuhlrott: Loos, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 155 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Loos in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Published in Degebo's publications, Heft 3, 1932
- ↑ Reint de Boer The engineer and the scandal , Springer 2005, p. 151
- ↑ Klaus Weiß 50 years Degebo , Mitt.Degebo 1978, p. 22.
- ^ History of the Karlsruhe Institute of Geotechnics
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Loos, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Butzbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4th 1952 |
| Place of death | Klagenfurt |