Wilhelm Feldmann (engineer)

Wilhelm Feldmann (born November 16, 1853 in Wartjenstedt ; † June 2, 1905 in Bern ) was a German civil engineer who participated in various pioneering technical projects.

Feldmann attended high school in Hildesheim , where he skipped a class because of high performance. After graduating from high school , he studied construction in Berlin and Vienna . He started out as a construction officer and worked as a construction manager ( trainee lawyer ) for the construction of the Berlin light rail system . As a government architect ( assessor ) was involved in the renovation of the railway systems in Cologne under the direction of Ernst Dircksen . During this time he got to know the Cologne entrepreneur Eugen Langen , whose technical developments caught his interest. He left the civil service in order to be able to work on Langen's most spectacular project: As construction manager , he was responsible for the construction of the Wuppertal suspension railway . In 1904, Feldmann Mit was a concessionaire for the construction of the Wetterhorn elevator near Grindelwald , the first aerial cableway in Switzerland built according to his technical design . At the time the construction of this facility was started, he died while staying in Bern.

Fonts

• Elevated trams based on the Eugen Langen suspension railway system. (in three parts) In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 15, 1895, No. 1 (from January 5, 1895), pp. 3–5 / No. 2 (from January 12, 1895), pp. 16–18 / No. 3 (from January 19, 1895), p. 24 f.

literature

• "-A-": Wilhelm Feldmann †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 25, 1905, No. 52 (from June 28, 1905), p. 328.
• Walter Buschmann : The Wuppertal suspension railway. History, meaning, future. In: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland , 15th year 1998, pp. 20–29. ( online at rheinische-industriekultur.de , last accessed on September 18, 2019)