You are bidding on one hand-drawn, calligraphic certificate ofGerman Concrete Association.
The association, founded in 1898, exists today under the name "German Concrete and Construction Technology Association."
Dated Wiesbaden, 1. February 1953.
Congratulations certificateto the Austrian civil engineer and pioneer of reinforced concrete construction Rudolf Saliger (1873-1958) to his 80. Birthday.
Signed from the chairman, the concrete construction engineer Hans Minetti (1898-1991), and the managing director Erich Bornemann (1896-1964).
On beautiful A4 handmade paper; bound in a protective double sheet made of very strong handmade paper.
Condition: Somewhat stained in places; Very nice condition. biPlease also note the pictures!
Internal note: Salinger folder blue
About Rudolf Saliger, Hans Minetti and the German Concrete Association (Source: wikipedia):
Rudolf Saliger (* 1. February 1873 in Spachendorf near Freudenthal, Austrian Silesia; † 31. January 1958 in Vienna) was an Austrian civil engineer and pioneer of reinforced concrete construction.
Life: Saliger was the son of a carpenter and attended secondary school in Troppau. He studied civil engineering at the Vienna University of Technology from 1891 to 1898, graduating with a second degree. State examination. In between, he did his military service as a one-year volunteer in 1895/96. He then worked from 1897 to 1899 in the bridge construction office of the Southern Railway Company and then from 1899 to 1900 as a bridge construction engineer at the Upper Austrian Lieutenancy in Linz. From 1900 to 1908 he worked as an engineer in Germany, including at the Beton- und Monierbau company and at the building trade schools in Posen and Kassel. He undertook study trips to Switzerland, France (1900 in Paris) and Belgium to further his training, particularly in reinforced concrete construction, including with the reinforced concrete pioneers Francois Hennebique and Joseph Monier. In 1903 he received his Dr. tech. PhD (dissertation: On the strength of buildings made of variable elastic materials, primarily concrete-iron constructions). In 1906 he was a volunteer in the materials testing office in Berlin-Lichterfelde, which belonged to the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg. In 1907 he was appointed to the Technical University in Braunschweig, then to Prague (associate professor for structural mechanics and iron construction in 1908/09) and Dresden, before finally working at the Technical University in Vienna from 1910 to 1933 as a full professor for general and applied mechanics . From 1920 to 1922 he was dean and in 1924/25 he became rector. In addition, Saliger was a construction consultant for the municipality of Vienna between 1927 and 1934. After the “Anschluss”, Saliger became interim rector of the Technical University again after Karl Holey was expelled in 1938.
In 1939 he was accepted into the Vienna Academy of Sciences and retired in the same year.
After 1945, Saliger was classified as a “minor offender,” and in the same year his request for leniency was granted for “technical-scientific reasons.”
After his death, his ashes were buried in an urn niche in the cemetery of the Simmering fire hall, which was listed as an honorary grave. The design for the grave monument comes from Viktor Hammer.
In 1903 he married Marie Hettling.
In 1965, Saligergasse in Vienna-Favoriten was named after him.
Significance: Rudolf Saliger is considered a pioneer of reinforced concrete construction. On the basis of his initiative, teaching chairs for reinforced concrete construction were set up at Austrian universities (compulsory subject at the Vienna University of Technology from 1916/17). He has been giving lectures on reinforced concrete construction since 1910. He also dealt with statics.
buildings
1927, dome of the Israelite ceremonial hall at the Vienna Central Cemetery
1929–1931, Vienna Stadium
1930–1932, Herrengasse high-rise
Awards
1931: Wilhelm Exner Medal
1943: Goethe Medal for Art and Science
Fonts
Practical statics. Introduction to the stability calculation of the supporting structures with particular consideration for building and reinforced concrete construction. Deuticke: Leipzig, 1927 (2. extended Edition)
The face of the new Russia. Travel impressions. Springer: Vienna, 1932
The reinforced concrete. Its calculation and design. Kröner: Leipzig, 1933 (6. supplemented edition)
Long-term tests on reinforced concrete beams with various steel reinforcements. Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects: Vienna, 1935
Tests on reinforced concrete beams under static and falling loads. Springer: Vienna, 1936
The new theory of reinforced concrete based on plasticity in the fracture state. Deuticke: Vienna, 1947
Advances in reinforced concrete through high-quality materials and new research. Deuticke: Vienna, 1950
Thinking and doing of a technician. 3 vols. Self-published: Vienna, 1952–53
The reinforced concrete construction. Material, calculation, design. Deuticke: Vienna, 1956 (8. extended Edition)
Hans Theodor Carl Minetti (*19. July 1898 in Hamburg; † 12. September 1991 ibid) was a German concrete construction engineer.
Life: Minetti was the son of the architect and director of the Hamburg building school Wilhelm Minetti and, after military service in the First World War, studied civil engineering as a naval lieutenant from 1919 to 1922 at the TH Braunschweig (diploma with honors). He then worked for Dyckerhoff and Widmann in the design office in Biebrich and then as construction manager in their branch in Saarbrücken. In 1924, at the age of just 26, he became head of the Hamburg branch of Held & Francke Bauaktiengesellschaft, where he remained until 1933. In 1928 he received his doctorate in Braunschweig (The difference in economic efficiency between articulated and clamped rectangular frames made of reinforced concrete). From 1933 to 1939 he headed the Hamburg branch of Lenz-Bau AG. During the Second World War he was a reserve lieutenant captain in the Navy from 1939 to 1945.
After the war years he returned to Lenz-Bau and was a board member from 1946 to 1954. In 1947 he was appointed chairman of the German Concrete Association. V. Wiesbaden (today the German Concrete and Construction Technology Association), where he worked until 1972. During this time, Minetti gave various speeches at the opening events of the German Concrete Days. Concrete technology lectures during such concrete days.
After the war, he served on various committees of the Federal Ministry of Housing and the Federal Association of German Industries for Structural Air Defense and from 1955 was head of the Concrete Roads Working Group of the Research Society for Roads. After the war, he published, among other things, on the technical problems of reconstruction in the Federal Republic, including the utilization of rubble, the economic dimensioning of concrete slabs and beams and air protection.
In 1969, Minetti was awarded the academic dignity of Honorary Senator by the Technical University of Berlin and the 1969 Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1970 he received honorary life membership of the Fédération Internationale du béton, Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1971 he received the Emil Mörsch memorial coin and in 1973 he became honorary chairman of the German Concrete Association. v.
He was a member of the German Committee for Reinforced Concrete and the board of the German Architects and Engineers Association. He was also on the board of fip and headed the 3rd division in 1958. Prestressed concrete congress in Berlin.
Fonts
Recycling rubble and other technical reconstruction problems in major German cities. Lecture given on the 12th March 1946 in Hamburg. Hamburg: Verlag Sachse, 1946. (DNB 57700705X)
Air protection of buildings. Constructive measures. Koblenz-Neuendorf: Verlag Gasschutz und Luftschutz, 1954. (DNB 453386377)
Concrete as a building material, in: DAI, 4/1975. Topic: Concrete in the urban landscape. Publisher: Association of German Architects and Engineers Associations. Santz Altena Publishing House, 1975.
The German Concrete and Construction Technology Association e. V. (DBV) is a registered non-profit German technical and scientific association based in Berlin. The purpose of the association is to promote science and research in the field of construction. The DBV was founded on the 5th. December 1898 in Berlin as the German Concrete Association. V. founded. The founding members included: B. Hartwig Hüser, Albert Eduard Toepffer and Conrad Freytag. It has had the current club name since 1999.
Location of the office
The location of the office has changed several times since it was founded:
1898–1900 office in Berlin (in the rooms of the Tonindustrie-Zeitung)
1900–1911 Office in (Wiesbaden-)Biebrich for the company Dyckerhoff & Widmann
1911–1936 Office in Oberkassel near Bonn (in various rooms)
1936–1945 office in Berlin (1936–1939 Großadmiral-von-Koester-Ufer 43, then Schmargendorfer Straße 25 A in Friedenau)
1947–1948 Office in Hamburg (Mönckebergstraße 11, at Allgemeine Baugesellschaft Lenz & Co.)
1948–1999 Office in Wiesbaden (various premises, most recently Bahnhofstrasse 61)
Since 1999 office in Berlin (at the construction industry, Kurfürstenstraße 129 in Schöneberg)
History of the DBV: The history of the DBV from 1898 to 1998 was comprehensively described on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. It can be divided into different time periods:
From the founding to the end of the First World War: After the founding of the DBV on January 5th December 1898 in Berlin and the assumption of the chairmanship from the founder and first chairman of the German Concrete Association Hartwig Hüser, who died shortly after its founding, Eugen Dyckerhoff (entrepreneur in the company Dyckerhoff & Widmann, concrete works and construction company in Biebrich) became the new and therefore second chairman From 1899 onwards, the DBV worked intensively to establish clear quality standards for concrete.
As a result, the DBV published “Preliminary Guidelines for the Preparation, Execution and Testing of Reinforced Concrete Buildings” in 1904 and, together with representatives of the Association of German Architects and Engineers Associations (VDAI), submitted an application to the Reich Chancellor in 1905 to set up a committee for the German Reich to be used for testing reinforced concrete and establishing regulations for reinforced concrete construction.
On the 8th In January 1907, the German Committee for Reinforced Concrete was founded (since 1941, the German Committee for Reinforced Concrete (DAfStb)), in which all German states and all interested circles, science, industry, engineering associations and the construction administration are represented. The aim was to develop uniform regulations for the execution of concrete and reinforced concrete buildings for the whole of Germany.
In 1908 there was a new definition of regular membership in the DBV and the founding of the DBV's Economic Commission, which was renamed the Economic Committee in 1910. This prompted the founding of the Concrete Construction Employers' Association in 1911 and the Cement Consumers' Association in 1917. The Concrete Industry Association was founded in 1918 together with the Concrete Construction Employers' Association.
In 1909, the DBV arbitration regulations were passed, in which an out-of-court dispute resolution procedure for construction was published for the first time in Germany.
From 1919 to 1932: In 1927, an “Austrian Group” of the German Concrete Association (with a seat on the DBV board) was formed and “Preliminary Guidelines for Construction Control” were adopted. Based on a resolution of the DBV general meeting, the members of the DBV committed themselves in writing to the association to carry out the construction control tests prescribed by the association during their construction work and to also submit to a review by the association.
The DBV during the Nazi era until the end of the Second World War:
In 1936, a DBV construction consultancy for the Reichsbahn and Reichsautobahn construction sites in Saxony was set up. As a result, from 1938 onwards, the association sold “DBV test boxes for testing concrete and its components” and was commissioned by the construction industry business group to set up construction consultations in as many districts as possible. As early as 1939 there were building consultations in Augsburg, Berlin, Breslau, Stettin and Vienna.
The DBV was incorporated into the National Socialist Federation of German Technology (NSBDT) in 1938 as a technical-scientific association [20], but was not dissolved. The DBV later also took over the management of the “Concrete Construction Working Group of the Construction Department in the NSBDT”. The incorporation meant, among other things, that the approval of the Main Office for Technology in the NSDAP was required for filling the positions of DBV chairman and his deputies, for naming the DBV managing director and for appointing honorary members of the DBV and for other personal honors was required. Topics that the association dealt with and where it contributed its expertise included air raid protection and the “construction of fortifications”. But civil topics, such as the “execution of concrete foundations and basement walls made of concrete for residential buildings”, were also dealt with, and there were committees on topics such as “concrete strength in buildings”, “vibrated concrete”, “oil-tightness of concrete” and for updating the regulations of the DAfStb in the series din 1045 “Regulations for the execution of structures made of reinforced concrete” (“Part A”), dindin 1047 “Provisions for the execution of concrete structures” (“Part C”),din 1048 “Provisions for concrete tests when constructing structures made of concrete” (“Part D”).
The first noticeable effects of the Second World War were reported in the annual report of the board of directors for 1941/1942.[22] The report was significantly shorter and could not go into the various activities of the association. The annual report for the period 1943/1944 reported on the formation of committees for “bomb damage to reinforced concrete buildings”, which now existed in around 40 cities in Germany. It was discussed how the damage to buildings caused by bomb hits could be limited through structural measures.
After the 8th In May 1945, the German Concrete Association was also unable to continue its activities as an association active throughout Germany. Although the office in Berlin was hardly affected by the war events, so that the library and other work equipment were initially retained, there was still damage and losses in the immediate period after the end of the war.
Re-establishment of the DBV in the post-war years: The political situation caused by the division of Germany into four occupation zones made it impossible for the DBV to resume its activities in its old form as a unified association for all occupation zones, and so the DBV was re-established on January 3rd. September 1947 in Hanover, after the last chairman of the DBV before the end of the war, Walter Nakonz, in agreement with former members, submitted an application to the British military government in February 1946 for approval of the new establishment for the British zone. A few days later, namely on the 28th. In September 1947, the Berlin Concrete Association was re-founded. As early as 1948, the DBV construction consultancy was reestablished and expanded.
In 1949, the DBV asked the DAfStb to limit the number of standards and guidelines. Instead, information sheets were desired that did not constitute mandatory regulations and were easier to adapt to technical developments.
The development of new test boxes for construction sites for testing cement, aggregates and concrete was completed in 1950.
For the first time after the war, the DBV general meeting took place in Berlin in 1952. In the same year, the DBV published its “Experiences from Construction Consulting” as a loose-leaf collection.
After the International Prestressed Concrete Association (FIP) was founded in Cambridge in 1952, the first plenary meeting of the European Concrete Committee (CEB) took place in Luxembourg in 1953. The DBV was accepted as a German FIP group in 1955 at II. FIP Congress in Amsterdam.
The Dischinger Prize was awarded for the first time at the German Concrete Day in 1955.
With the founding of the DBV Research Committee on 27. In April 1956, the DBV established a structure to devote more attention to research funding.
As a further development of previous test boxes, the first DBV climate boxes were sold from 1957, and in 1959 a new edition of “Experiences from Construction Consulting” was published as a book.
In the same year, the research committee approved the first three DBV research projects.
On the 21st In September 1965, the Quality Protection Association for Precast Reinforced Concrete Construction (GSV-F) was founded in Wiesbaden jointly by the DBV and the Main Association of the German Construction Industry. In addition, in 1967, preliminary work was carried out for the future monitoring of concrete B-II construction sites, which resulted in a test run of monitoring concrete B-II construction sites (B 450, B 600) in Bavaria and Hesse by the DBV construction consultancy. In the Federal Republic of Germany, 1,400 B-II construction sites were expected per year, which is why the project took place on August 8th. In July 1970, the Quality Protection Association for Concrete B-II Construction Sites (GÜB II) was founded. A “multi-area agreement” on cooperation between the concrete quality protection associations was concluded after the formation of a uniform quality protection concrete working group was not possible. It followed on the 30th. November 1972 the GSV-F general meeting decided to dissolve the quality protection association for prefabricated reinforced concrete construction. The members could join the GÜB II or the state quality protection associations of the Bund Güterschutz Beton (BGB).
In 1972, new test equipment cabinets were developed to replace the previous test boxes, of which the DBV had used approx. had sold 8,500 units.
In 1973 the anniversary volume “World of Concrete” was published to mark the 75th anniversary of the DBV.
In 1974, the new version of the arbitration rules, developed together with the German Society for Construction Law, was adopted.
The European concrete associations (including the DBV) held discussions with the EC Commission about building regulations in Brussels in 1980 and advocated the future Eurocode 2 as the standard.
In the “Seeheimer Talk” on the 4th. July 1983 between board members, representatives of the main committees and consulting engineers called for the development of non-binding regulations instead of standards, e.g. B. DBV information sheets. As a result, the first edition of the DBV leaflet collection was published in 1983, followed by three further editions until 1998. Today the leaflet collection is a compilation of approx. 35 individual information sheets.
At the request of the German Institute for Construction Technology (DIBt) to develop a course to provide experts with the necessary knowledge and skills for the use of plastics in concrete construction, the DBV decided on 5th. In February 1985, the training advisory board “Processing of plastics in concrete construction” was set up at the DBV, which has been called the training advisory board “Protection and repair in concrete construction” since 2009.
As a result, on January 1st In November 1985, on the initiative of the DBV, the Quality Association for the Preservation of Buildings (GEB) was founded. In 1986, the GEB held negotiations with other quality associations for concrete preservation to establish a federal quality association for concrete preservation, which was founded on January 27th. March 1987 took place. The management was with the DBV, but the GEB left on 31st. December 1988 by resolution of the GEB general meeting on December 29th. June 1988 ended again and the DBV handed over the management of the Federal Quality Association.
From German reunification to the present: In 1990 the DBV became active in the new federal states and on January 1st In July 1990, a branch office for the GDR was set up in Dresden. Working conferences were also organized in the GDR.
The Berlin Concrete Association was dissolved on January 30th. June 1991, and in the same year two new construction advisory areas (east and southeast) were established.
On 20. In April 1994, for the first time since reunification, a board meeting took place in Dresden, which was also attended by the then Prime Minister of Saxony, Kurt Biedenkopf.
On the 17th In March 1995, on the initiative of the DBV, the European Concrete Societies Network (ECSN) was founded in Wiesbaden.
As a result of a conversation at DBV on the 13th. In October 1995, research projects on “textile-reinforced concrete” were initiated.
In 1999 the name was changed to Deutscher Beton- und Bautechnik-Verein e. V. and the move of the office from Wiesbaden to Berlin.