Wilhelm von Wölfel

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Wilhelm Albrecht Edler von Wölfel (born March 3, 1913 in Böhmisch Leipa , Austria-Hungary , today the Czech Republic ; † June 29, 2011 in Weimar ) was a German civil engineer and university professor

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From 1931 to 1937 Wölfel studied civil engineering at the German Technical University in Prague and then worked as a structural engineer and site manager for construction companies in Prague and Pressburg . He then served in the German Wehrmacht in France and the USSR from 1939 to 1945. In the summer of 1945 Wölfel settled in Eisenach as a civil engineer and site manager and five years later he was responsible for the reconstruction of the village of Bruchstedt , which had been ravaged by a storm . From 1950 to 1954, Wölfel had general responsibility for the construction of Eisenhüttenstadt and the Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost (EKO). 1954 co-founder and technical director of VEB Talsperrenbau und Wasserkraftanlagen Weimar, today environmental technology & hydraulic engineering . In this role, Wölfel played a major role in the development of dam construction in the GDR : Rappbode dam , Pöhl dam , Straussfurt flood retention basin and Hohenwarte II pumped storage plant . In 1959, Wölfel received a doctorate from the Weimar University of Architecture and Construction (HAB Weimar) with a dissertation on a new type of bituminous outer skin seal for stone dams . a PhD and there for a professor with lectureship for water and foundation engineering appointed. As holder of the chair for hydraulic engineering and water management at the HAB Weimar, Wölfel developed extensive teaching and research activities in the above-mentioned areas from 1959 to 1978. In 1964, for example, with the specialist construction company based in Weimar, he initiated the scientific symposium on dam construction, which soon gained prestige throughout Europe and accompanied the Wölfel until 1989.

Medal on the back of the honor plaque of the Minister for Higher and Technical Schools of the GDR for "Merits to the university and technical college training" .jpg

On August 31, 1978, Hans-Joachim Böhme , Minister for Higher and Technical Schools of the GDR awarded him the honorary plaque of the Minister for Higher and Technical Schools of the GDR for "services to university and technical college training" .

After his retirement, Wölfel turned to the history of structural engineering and, under the editing of Doris Greiner-Mai from VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, published two monographs on the history of the water wheel (1987) and hydraulic engineering in the old empires (1990), which were successful and as License issues were exported to the Federal Republic of Germany. The last-mentioned book was provided with illustrations by the graphic artist Klaus Nerlich.

In the 1990s, Wölfels pen published numerous reports on the history of hydraulic engineering and water management in the journal Bautechnik , which were summarized in two special issues of the aforementioned journal in 1997 and 1999.

Fonts

  • Wilhelm Wölfel: Precast reinforced concrete elements in civil engineering and hydraulic engineering. Volume 1 : piles, sheet piles, floating bodies, caissons, pipes, VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1965.
  • Wilhelm Wölfel: Precast reinforced concrete elements in civil engineering and hydraulic engineering. Volume 2 : Protection of banks and embankments, tunnel and gallery linings, cladding and formwork elements, foundations, retaining walls, quay walls, piers, jetty bridges, lake structures, dams, hydropower plants, containers, VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1966.
  • Wilhelm Wölfel: The water wheel - a historical consideration , VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-345-00195-0 .
  • Wilhelm Wölfel: Hydraulic engineering in the old empires , VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-345-00332-5 .
  • Wilhelm Wölfel: Fountains, bridges, aqueducts: reports on building in antiquity , construction technology special, special issue 1997.
  • Wilhelm Wölfel: Canals, bridges and cisterns: Reports from the ancient cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Southwest Arabia, Persia and China , Bautechnik Spezial, special issue 1999.

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  • Doris Greiner-Mai: Wilhelm von Wölfel 85 years . In: Bautechnik , vol. 75, (1998), no. 3, p. 200.
  • Doris Greiner-Mai: Wilhelm von Wölfel 90 years . In: Bautechnik, Vol. 80, (2003), no. 2, p. 118.
  • Dietmar Mälzer and Rudolf Wendt: Honorary Colloquium “Water Management through the Ages” - on the 90th birthday of Univ.-Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. Wilhelm von Wölfel. In: Bautechnik, Vol. 81, (2004), no. 3, pp. 215-216.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ history. Environmental Technology & Hydraulic Engineering, accessed on August 21, 2019 .
  2. ^ Wilhelm Wölfel: Novel bituminous outer skin sealing for stone dams , dissertation University of Architecture and Building Weimar 1959.
  3. ^ Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Report on the State of Construction History in Austria, Germany and Switzerland . In: Construction History. Research Perspectives in Europe, ed. By Antonio Becchi, Massimo Corradi, Federico Foce and Orietta Pedemonte, pp. 61–112 (here p. 72), Florence: Kim Williams Books 2004, ISBN 88-88479-11-2 .
  4. ↑ Klaus Nerlich
personal data
SURNAME Wölfel, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wölfel, Wilhelm Albrecht Edler von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Bohemian Leipa
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 2011
Place of death Weimar