Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Stritzke honored with the Wackerbarth medal

The award of the Wackerbarth Medal to Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Stritzke by the Saxony Chamber of Engineers at the 29th Dresden Bridge Building Symposium not only honours a scientist and a university lecturer, but also a personality who has rendered outstanding services to the Technical University of Dresden, to bridge construction and to masterly civil engineering achievements.

In his laudatory speech, Institute Director Manfred Curbach paid tribute to the many achievements of the former holder of the professorship for solid bridge construction at the Technische Universität Dresden. After the reunification of Germany, Jürgen Stritzke founded an institution that is unparalleled today. Since the fall of communism there have been the annual bridge-building symposia which Mr Stritzke organises every year in March from 1991 to 2011, i.e. 21 times. Here building owners, construction companies, representatives of engineering offices and scientists meet to discuss current buildings, their preservation, but also their problems. The number of participants has been in the order of 1500 for many years.

He also succeeded in bringing the German Bridge Building Award to Dresden. Since 2006, this prize has been awarded by the Federal Chamber of Engineers and the Association of Consulting Engineers on the eve of the bridge construction symposium. Mr Stritzke was a member of the jury for the German Bridge Construction Award from 2006 to 2012, and chairman in 2012.

A further concern of Jürgen Stritzke is to honour the achievements of our predecessors and to keep them in mind. For this reason, he is still an active member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Chamber of Engineers today in order to select the awards as "Historical Landmark of the Art of Civil Engineering".

Jürgen Stritzke has achieved great results with his work for the Dresden Bridge Building Symposium, for the German Bridge Building Award and for the Historical Landmarks, for which the Saxony Chamber of Engineers has awarded him the Wackerbarth Medal.