Heinrich Gottfried Gerber

Gottfried Heinrich Gerber ( born November 18, 1832 in Hof, † January 3, 1912 in Munich) was a German engineer and inventor of the Gerber carrier.

Life

Gerber studied at the Polytechnic schools in Nuremberg and Munich. In 1852 he joined the Bavarian Staatsbaudienst and first worked on the railway line Bayreuth new market. Beginning of 1854 he was employed as an assistant to the site manager Großhesseloher bridge and over in the summer 1855 in the administration of the Royal Bavarian State Railways in Munich, where he participated in the planning for this bridge. After the exam for the higher Staatsbaudienst in 1856 his construction management Großhesseloher bridge was transferred, were designed by Friedrich August came from Pauli and he developed lens wearers (Pauli carrier ) foresaw. Executing company was the iron foundry and machine shop Klett & Comp. , Nuremberg. The design plans for the bridge were created in close cooperation between Pauli, Johann Ludwig Werder, director of Velcro, and Gerber. After the completion of the bridge in 1857, he was appointed in the summer of 1858 by Theodor von Cramer -Klett and Werder with Paulis consent as chief engineer of the bridge department of Maschinenfabrik Velcro in Nuremberg. There he conducted numerous experiments and calculations on rivets and bolts through in trusses.

When the company in 1859 was awarded the contract for the construction of the railway bridge over the Rhine at Mainz and decided to make the bridge parts in a temporary facility near the site in Gustav castle, Gerber moved in 1860 with his family at the factory to the manufacture and construction of the bridge to conduct until its completion in 1863.

In his subsequent time in Nuremberg, he was concerned with work on continuous beams, which are determined by the involvement of joints and static possible to calculate simple. In 1866 he was awarded the Bavarian patent bar carrier with exposed bases. This support in 1867 was first performed at a bridge over the Regnitz at Bamberg and in the Main Bridge in Haßfurt. This construction spread rapidly and became known worldwide as Gerber carrier.

1968 Gerber went back to Gustav castle to guide the construction of the second track of the Rhine bridge. Then he sat down with an office in Munich. As part of the conversion of the Nuremberg headquarters for engineering Actiengesellschaft Nuremberg, 1873, the plant in Castle Gustav and his Munich office was to Süddeutsche Bridge AG in Munich becomes independent with Gerber as Chief Executive. During this time he dealt among other things with development work on intersections of truss, the other duties of the Executive Board were to him less. At his own suggestion, this company was in 1884 in the engineering -Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg ( now MAN ) above. Gerber was there board member and technical advisory board and devoted himself to continue his research and consulting activities.

Structures

  • South Bridge (Mainz)
  • Street bascule bridge at the Bastion Nicolaus in Mainz
  • " Railway counterweight flap " over the entrance to the Winter Harbor in Mainz
  • Swing Bridge at Fort Gustav castle near Mainz
  • Design and construction of the Marian Bridge at Neuschwanstein Castle, 1866
  • Design of the station hall in Mainz (1883 )

Overall, he has contributed to the construction of about 600 bridges. He also constructed a joint named after him for iron structures.

Honors

In Gerber's birth city of Hof is a memorial plaque to the engineer and the Gerber beam. He also received many honors as two Knight's Crosses, honorary memberships and 1902 an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich. In 1911, the gold medal for engineering excellence of the Prussian Academy of Civil Engineering awarded him. 1935, a Labor Service camp in Trogen was named after him.

In the Cramer -Klett- settlement in Gustavsburg a street is named after him.

Writings

  • The Pauli carrier system. Nuremberg in 1859.
  • The bridge over the Rhine at Mainz. Mainz 1863.
  • The calculation of the bridge support system according to Pauli. In: journal of the Association of German Engineers, ZDB - ID 200611 -x, 1865.
  • Carrier with exposed bases. In: Journal of the Bavarian Architects and Engineers Association, ZDB - ID 163830-0, 1870.
  • Determination of allowable stresses in iron structures. In 1874.
  • Notes on iron structures with articulated joints. In: Journal of Baukunde, ZDB - ID 540201-3, 1882.
  • Einsteighallen in Central Station Munich. In: Organ for progress of railways, ZDB - ID 552263-8, 1887.
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