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Udo Gurgel was born on 1938 in Germany, is a German engineer. Discover Udo Gurgel's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?
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Udo Gurgel Net Worth
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Udo Gurgel (born 1938 in Schwerin, Germany) is a German engineer and designer of luge, bobsled and skeleton tracks.
Gurgel studied structural engineering at the School of Civil Engineering in Cottbus until 1963 and then at the Bauhaus University, Weimar.
He then worked as an engineer on the team commissioned with the planning of a track for Oberhof, Germany in 1966: the Oberhof bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track.
Since then, he has designed and constructed bobsleigh and toboggan runs.
Gurgel has lived in Leipzig since 1966.
In 1968, the Scientific and Technical Centre for sports facilities (STC sports facilities) in Leipzig, commissioned the first bobsleigh and luge track to be built in East Germany, following the first permanent track in West Germany: the Königssee bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track.
Since Gurgel and his colleagues had no insight into the detailed planning of the Königssee track - i.e. because the countries were rivals because of the cold war - many technical solutions had to be rethought.
Thus they developed the use of no wood for shuttering the curve geometry, the STC and the contractor Ulrich Müther together made a concrete formwork free injection method, which is still used in railway construction.
In addition, use was made for the first time of calculations by a mainframe computer.
The luge track in Oberhof was the first fully computer calculated path in the world.
The development of the luge and bobsleigh meant that from 1982-86 a second track in the Erzgebirge Altenberg was constructed.
It was commissioned by the then Ministry for State Security which demanded secrecy, thus preventing successful teamwork which had a negative impact on construction, so that the track had to be rebuilt after a testing season.
After this setback, engineers specialized more in design, planning and calculation and developed their own software, so that Gurgel's engineering firm is today a leader in the planning of bobsled and luge tracks around the world.
After German reunification, Gurgel became independent and in 1993 founded an engineering office in order to implement the long-term experience of STC sports facilities.
Today the engineering firm is called Gurgel + Partner Leipzig with Mike Richter and Jörg Penseler.
Gurgel is officially active only as a consultant.
