Erich Lackner

As a junior partner in the firm, Lackner was the on-site supervising engineer for the construction of the well known Valentin submarine pens.

Marineoberbaurat Edo Meiners was in charge overall; the on-site supervising engineer was Erich Lackner.

Erich Friedrich Michael Lackner (May 13, 1913 in Himmelberg, Austria – February 2, 1992 in Kärnten) was a German civil engineer.

Erich Friedrich Michael Lackner (May 13, 1913 in Himmelberg, Austria – February 2, 1992 in Kärnten) was a German civil engineer.

Lackner graduated from high school in Klagenfurt in 1931 and after completing studies at the Technical University of Berlin in 1937, he joined the engineering firm Agatz & Bock, which had been established the previous year.

Lackner graduated from high school in Klagenfurt in 1931 and after completing studies at the Technical University of Berlin in 1937, he joined the engineering firm Agatz & Bock, which had been established the previous year.

This was constructed between 1943 and 1945 under a contract from the Organisation Todt, using the labour of concentration-camp prisoners, who suffered a high death rate because of the conditions they worked under.

After Lackner applied for a patent for a new type of anchored, pre-stressed-concrete dry dock in 1953, he oversaw the construction of dry docks in Alexandria and Karachi and numerous other projects in the ensuing years.

After Lackner applied for a patent for a new type of anchored, pre-stressed-concrete dry dock in 1953, he oversaw the construction of dry docks in Alexandria and Karachi and numerous other projects in the ensuing years.

He published numerous technical and scientific papers in both English and German during this period.

He published numerous technical and scientific papers in both English and German during this period.

He also provided expert testimony to several inquiries of engineering disasters including a dam break that disabled the newly constructed Elbe Lateral Canal in 1976 and another dam break on the then-under-construction Rhine–Main–Danube Canal in 1979.

He also provided expert testimony to several inquiries of engineering disasters including a dam break that disabled the newly constructed Elbe Lateral Canal in 1976 and another dam break on the then-under-construction Rhine–Main–Danube Canal in 1979.