Child, Fritz

Civil engineer

born: 02.11.1892 in Kassel

died: 05.11.1979 in Wiesbaden

Kind studied civil engineering at the TH Hannover from 1911, was a government construction foreman at the Prussian Hydraulic Engineering Administration in Berlin from 1921-23 and then worked in Kassel and Gladbeck.

From 1925, he worked in Wiesbaden for the Nassau district association as a state building officer and was head of the road construction administration from 1930-45 as a state senior building officer. From 1947, he headed the Wiesbaden State Road Construction Office.

From 1954 until his retirement in 1957, he was head of the newly founded Hessian State Office for Road Construction (now Hessen Mobil. Road and Traffic Management). From 1934-66 he headed the "Planning, Road Design and Traffic" working group at the Forschungsgesellschaft für Straßenwesen e.V. (FGS). Kind was particularly involved in road research, road planning and projects for the new construction, expansion and reconstruction of the road network in Hesse, as many roads still had water-bound surfaces after the Second World War.

In 1966, the FGS made him an honorary member. Kind published the book "Straßen und Brücken in Hessen" in 1957.