Beer, Hermann#
b. Graz (Styria), Sept. 6, 1905, d. Graz (Styria)_, July 20, 1972, engineer, 1932 head of the Department of Steel Bridge Construction at the Humboldt-Deutz Motor Works in Cologne, chief engineer of the steel construction works J. Gollnow & Sohn Stettin, 1940 university professor of structural analysis and steel construction in Graz, 1949-1952 professor at Tucuman University in Argentina, 1953 professor of structural analysis and steel construction at the University of Technology in Graz.
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Steel constructions in Austria and abroad (2 bridges over the Rivers Weichsel and Elbe, highway bridge (540 metres long), Theatre for an audience of 20,000 at the island of Ruegen). - Publications: 55 scientific treatises, esp. on the construction and erection of suspension bridges.