JAMBOR

GERMANY (see also List of Individuals)

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8.8.1903 Mückenberg/CR - 28.7.1986 Karlsruhe/D

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Franz Jambor was born in Sudetenland, then a part of the Austrian Empire and presently in the Czech Republic. He studied at the German University of Prague, where he was an assistant to Alfred Buntru (1887-1974) and where he submitted his PhD thesis in 1942. He joined Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau BAW in Karlsruhe in 1949. After this national institution had been rebuilt, Jambor took interest in designing hydraulic structures in Germany, with more than a hundred model studies. Jambor was appointed in 1964 president of BAW and took over leadership of a large governmental administration, including rivers and navigation, and foundation engineering. During this time BAW was centralized and a computational center was erected that contributed to numerical simulations and collected data all over the country. Jambor retired four years later.

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Jambor had a great share in the improvement of the Rivers Mosel and Rhine. As a general engineer with a large background in foundation and hydraulic engineering, he was fascinated of the technical improvements that were added to water courses both in terms of environmental protection and the use of rivers in water supply, wastewater recirculation and navigation purposes. Jambor has written some papers in German technical journals that deal with the development of a particular weir type and the protection of river shores from erosion by waves and large flow velocities.

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_{Anonymous (1968). Franz Jambor. gwf/Wasser-Abwasser 109(50): 1427.}

_{Bumm, H., Jambor, F., Kohler, H., Pichl, K., Röhnisch, A. (1965). Défense des rives et protection du fond des canaux. 21st Congrès International de Navigation Stockholm SI 4: 5-38.}

_{Canisius, P., Jambor, F. (1959). Avoiding cross currents in the reaches of double locks during filling and emptying. 8 IAHR Congress Montreal 1(5B): 1-15.}

_{Felkel, K. (1969). Präsident Dr.-Ing. Jambor im Ruhestand. Wasserwirtschaft 59(1): 22. Jambor, F. (1956). Formgebung des Trennpfeilers in Flusskraftwerken. Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau Mitteilungsblatt 7: 51-61.}

_{Jambor, F. (1959). Mögliche Erhöhung und Entwicklung der festen Wehrschwelle, sowie Gestaltung der damit verbundenen Wehrkonstruktionen, im Besonderen des Sektorwehres. Die Bautechnik 36(6): 221-228; 36(8): 297-300.}

_{Jambor, F. (1960). Lage und Gestaltung der Schleusen und ihrer Zufahrten. Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau Mitteilung 15: 3-13.}

_{Kniess, X. (1986). Franz Jambor. Mitteilungsblatt 59: i. BAW: Karlsruhe. P}