Adolf Buchholz (hydraulic engineer)

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Adolf Buchholz
Buchholz stele on the researcher mile (2015)

Georg Heinrich Adolf Buchholz (born December 13, 1803 in Hameln , † July 15, 1877 in Berlin ) was a German hydraulic engineer who worked as a royal Hanover and later as a royal Prussian construction officer in the state building administration.

Life

Buchholz's parents were Henning Buchholz (1760–1842) and Maria Christina Dorothea Buchholz, born. Moehle.

Buchholz joined as an apprentice in Hamelin Water Planning Director Richard Adolph Dammert one. At the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen he started studying general subjects for several years, because at that time it was not yet possible to study technical subjects at special universities.

On June 11, 1827 he was employed by the Royal Hanover General Directorate of Hydraulic Engineering. Around 1835, as head of the Oberweser hydraulic engineering inspection in Hameln, he was involved in the expansion of the Weser and the construction of the Hamelin Western Railway . He designed the Georgenturm, built in 1843 on the Klüt.

Around 1847 he became a hydraulic engineering inspector in Emden . Here he managed dike and lock work and the expansion of the port facility . In 1847 he married Katharina Magdalena Oltmanns , the daughter of a lawyer in Emden.

He was appointed hydraulic engineering director with the title of building officer and was entrusted with the extensive project of the Geestemünder Handelshafen , a combined railway and port facility in the department of the railway general management (cf. Geestemünder Bahnhof ). Buchholz had overall responsibility, planning and technical execution. In 1859 he drafted the Geestemünde seaport plan , which also included the 1860/1861 draft of the swing bridge over the Geestemünde main canal . In June 1862 the official opening of the railway and station took place and in July 1863 that of the port.

Buchholz then worked again in Hanover for the General Directorate of Hydraulic Engineering. In Prussian times, he was in charge of various construction projects as senior building officer, such as the planning and management of the Weser lock in Hameln from 1868–1870. He was then appointed to Berlin as a secret admiralty to help plan the imperial war ports in Kiel and Wilhelmshaven .

Fonts

  • The port construction of Geestemünde. In: Journal of the Architects and Engineers Association for the Kingdom of Hanover , 11th year 1865, p. 45 ff. (In several parts; preview on Google books )

Oltmann Buchholz

China monument in Wulsdorf

Buchholz's only son was Oltmann Buchholz , who was born on March 27, 1862 in Geestemünde. As corvette captain and first officer of the SMS Kaiserin Augusta he took part in the Seymour expedition to put down the Boxer Rebellion . In the Chiku arsenal off Tientsin he was shot to the heart on June 22, 1900. He was buried with military honors on site and later in Berlin. On May 8, 1913, the Association of Former East Asians and Africans laid a wreath at the Chinese monument in the Bremerhaven cemetery in Wulsdorf .

literature

  • N / A : † Secret Admiralty Council Buchholz. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 11, 1877, No. 60 (from July 28, 1877), pp. 294–296. ( online as a PDF document)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henning Buchholz (familysearch.org), accessed on March 31, 2015.
  2. ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Bremen: Swing Bridge Main Canal  in the German Digital Library .
  3. ^ Peter Raap : The East Asian Expeditionary Corps. An obelisk in the Bremerhaven cemetery and its history. In: Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt , No. 742 (from October 2011). ( online as a PDF file).
personal data
SURNAME Buchholz, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchholz, Georg Heinrich Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hydraulic engineer, Hanoverian and Prussian construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamelin
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1877
Place of death Berlin