Joachim Friedrich Leppmann

Born at Düsseldorf, Germany, 31 August 1899; died at Berkeley, California, USA, 1 November 1982; married at Freiburg im BreIsgau, Germany, 18 June 1927, Fanny Marianne Hempel (consistently called Marianne) (born at Munich, Germany, 12 August 1903; died at Berkeley, California, USA, 10 March 1994; daughter of Hugo and Olga (Fajans) Hempel). Joachim went through school in Berlin and served in the German Army in World War I. He earned a doctorate in civil engineering from the Berlin Technische Hochschule (now Berlin Technical University) in 1933. In 1934 he and Marianne, a pediatrician, moved to Tehran, Persia (Iran), where he pursued his engineering career and she practiced medicine. They remained there through the years of World War II and emigrated to the United States in 1947. They lived first in Chicago, and about 1952 moved to Berkeley, California.
Joachim’s subsequent career was connected to the California Department of Highways, where he played a substantial role in the design and planning of several bridges in the San Francisco Bay area, most notably the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge. Marianne continued her pediatric practice in Oakland, California.
They had two daughters.