Madona City Engineer Voldemārs Bergkinds (1897-1978)

Inženierzinātņu un augstskolu vēsture 2017
Indulis Zvirgzdiņš

Civil engineer Voldemārs Bergkinds started his studies at the Department of Civil Engineering of Riga Polytechnic Institute and continued at the University of Latvia. In 1922, he received the Diploma of Civil Engineer and was a road engineer with the Ministry of Transport of Latvia. He has developed the design for various new buildings and modifications of the existing ones. Some of the buildings he designed can be seen in Madona. Bergkinds had been the Civil Engineer of the town of Madona since 1928. After World War II, he lived and worked in Austria. He took part in the construction of the monument to Latvian poets Rainis and Aspazija in Castagnola, Lugano, Switzerland. The monument was restored in 1972. Bergkinds died in January 1978 at the age of 80 in Innsbruck, Austria, where he was buried.

Keywords
Voldemārs Bergkinds, road construction, building design, Madona, monument to Rainis and Aspazija in Switzerland.
DOI
10.7250/IAV.2017.006
Hyperlink
https://iav-journals.rtu.lv/article/view/IAV.2017.006

Zvirgzdiņš, I. Madona City Engineer Voldemārs Bergkinds (1897-1978). Inženierzinātņu un augstskolu vēsture, 2017, Vol. 1, pp. 89-97. ISSN 2592-8155. e-ISSN 2592-8163. Available from: doi:10.7250/IAV.2017.006

Publication language
Latvian (lv)