Fritz Wenzel
1936 - 1949 Schools in Silesia and Lower Saxony
1949 - 1951 Apprenticeship as carpenter and timber construction technician
1951 Study of civil engineering at the TH Braunschweig
1957 - 1958 Company engineer in the construction company Wilhelm Goes in Salzgitter
1959 - 1963 Scientific assistant at the chair of structural engineering with Professor Klaus Pieper at the TH Braunschweig
1963 Doctorate
1964 - 1967 Head of the engineering office of Prof. Klaus Pieper in Braunschweig
1967 - 1998 Full professor and head of the Institute for Structural Engineering at the Department of Architecture of the University of Karlsruhe (TH)
since 1968 own engineering office, since 1978 partnership, since 2007 former partner
1970 - 1998 Examination engineer for structural analysis
1998 retirement
2000 Honorary doctorate at the TU Braunschweig
02. October 2020 deceased at the age of 90 years
Teaching, Research, Practice
1967 - 1998 Teaching of Construction and Design of Structures at the Department of Architecture at the University of Karlsruhe (TH)
1985 - 2000 Foundation and management of the interfaculty special research area 315 of the German Research Foundation "Preservation of historically significant buildings" at the University of Karlsruhe (TH).
1990 - 2002 Founder and director of the further education and consulting centre for monument preservation and careful restoration of old buildings "Villa Salzburg" in Dresden.
1997 Founder of the course of studies in old building restoration at the University of Karlsruhe (TH).
until 1995 research, engineering practice and standardisation in silo construction
since 1968 research work, engineering planning, static-constructive consulting and expertises for the preservation of historically important buildings in Germany and abroad
Scientific publications, reports from engineering practice
Member of national and international scientific associations and expert commissions
1968 - 2009 Supervision of 29 dissertations of scientific assistants