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Ulrich Finsterwalder
Ulrich Finsterwalder
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In recent years he was an independent consultant. Finsterwalder was a designer of numerous monumental and unique structures including buildings, highways, bridges, dams, shell-type concrete ships, vessels for the transport of 87
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He was among the leading innovators in prestressed concrete, and many of today's standards of that material are the result of his original ideas decades ago. Finsterwalder was a pioneer in free cantilever construction, which is now known as segmental construction; he originated the stress ribbon bridge and supervised the design and construction of one of the first cable-stayed bridges in concrete.
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Long-span airplane hangars followed. His first major prestressed concrete spans over the Rhine River at Worms were built in 1953.
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Other honors included the Inventor's Prize of Honor of the German Fecleral Republic, the Great Cross of Merit also of Germany, the Fritz Schumacher Prize of the Senate of the City of Hamburg, the Emil Morsch Medal of the German Concrete Association, and the honorary membership in the British Concrete Society. He was elected an extraordinary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and received honorary doctorates of the universities at Munich and Darmstadt, the Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal, the Gustave
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Such crossings were forbidden and violators were threatened with the death penalty. On one occasion UIrich was arrested by a border patrol guard, but speaking to the man as a priest would have talked, he convinced the guard that the moral law of a father and a husband was stronger than the rules of military occupation authorities.
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