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Fritz Leonhardt (12 July 1909 – 30 December 1999) was a German structural engineer who made major contributions to 20th-century bridge engineering, especially in the development of cable-stayed bridges. His book Bridges: Aesthetics and Design is well known throughout the bridge engineering community.
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Fritz Leonhardt. Schwedenbrücke, im Hintergrund hell beleuchtet die Urania (Wien) Fritz Leonhardt, eigentlich Friedrich Christof Leonhardt, [1] (* 11. Juli 1909 in Stuttgart; † 30. Dezember 1999 ebenda) war einer der einflussreichsten deutschen Bauingenieure des 20. Jahrhunderts.
FRITZ LEONHARDT 1909-1999. BY BEN GERWICK. FRITZ LEONHARDT, professor and former rector (president) of Stuttgart University, Germany, died on December 30, 1999. He was born in Stuttgart and received his university education at Stuttgart University. He carried on graduate studies at Purdue University in 1932 and 1933, returning to Stuttgart ...
Fritz Leonhardt is best known for his design of major bridges, not only in Germany but also in South America (Venezuela and Argentina) and in the United States. The first cable-stayed bridge in the United States, designed in conjunction with Arvid Grant Associates, was built across the Columbia River between Pasco and Kennewick, Washington.
Fritz Leonhardt (12 July 1909 – 30 December 1999) was a German structural engineer who made major contributions to 20th-century bridge engineering, especially in the development of cable-stayed bridges. His book Bridges: Aesthetics and Design is well known throughout the bridge engineering community.
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many. In this paper, Leonhardt’s role in the national socialist system with its major building projects is investi-gated and put into its historical context. Fritz Leonhardt’s contributions to the replanning of the city of Munich by Hermann Giesler from 1939 to 1943 will be explained in their technical aspects of the light weight structure.
