Adolf Schmeyers

Gerhard Diedrich Carl Adolf Schmeyers (born June 16, 1874 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ; † July 2, 1941 ibid) was a German geodesist and chief surveyor of the Free State of Oldenburg .

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Schmeyers was the son of the station master Johann Diedrich Schmeyers. In Oldenburg he attended secondary school and from 1894 to 1896 studied surveying and regional cultural engineering at the Technical University in Munich .

The state examination followed in 1899 and Schmeyers was accepted as a government geometer in the Oldenburg higher surveying and regional cultural service.

From 1904 to 1907 he worked as a district surveyor for the Rüstringen office and in 1907 was transferred to the surveying department in Oldenburg as an unskilled worker. In 1923 he became head of surveying and land registry . The Second World War prevented his retirement. After the war he was succeeded by Fritz Diekmann .

Research and publications

During his official activity, Schmeyers tried above all to maintain Oldenburg's national map series. In 1911 a multicolored distance map was published on a scale of 1: 50,000 in nine sheets. A nine-color administrative map on a scale of 1: 100,000 and a school map on a scale of 1: 400,000 supplemented the series of his national map series. When the height of the mineral subsoil and the surface of the bogs were determined in the course of the Reich soil assessment in the raised bog areas in 1937 , he arranged for the results to be presented in bog planning maps on a scale of 1: 10,000.

Schmeyers was also committed to local history research and promoted the possibility of evaluating land survey maps and books with the establishment of the Oldenburg field name index (1927–1933) and an “instruction for field name collectors”. He published several papers and gave lectures on location and field name research, which, in addition to linguistic and archival sources, also took into account the topographical conditions of the country.

literature

• Otto Harms: Schmeyers, Gerhard Diedrich Carl Adolf. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 642 f. ( online ).