Adolf Wiebe

Adolf Wiebe (born March 17, 1826 in Tiegenhof ( West Prussia ); † July 7, 1908 in Heiligendamm ; full name: Friedrich Ernst Adolf Wiebe ) was a German civil engineer and construction clerk . His main work is the construction of shipping lanes. He was largely responsible for the expansion of the Unterspree in Berlin.

Life

After graduating from high school in Elbing , Wiebe studied for a year at Königsberg University . Wiebe was trained as a surveyor from 1845 to 1847 and worked on the construction of the Oberland Canal . From 1848 to 1850 he studied at the building academy and was examined as a builder in 1856. He then worked for the railway directorate in Bromberg and from 1857 to 1866 headed the East Prussian land improvement office in Königsberg, and until 1872 he was government inspector in Frankfurt (Oder) . From 1872 to 1875 he was involved in the construction of the Breslau – Stettin railway line .

In 1875 he became a secret building officer and in 1878 a secret senior building officer in Berlin. Its main service is the expansion of waterways. He was responsible for the expansion of the Oder in Wroclaw as well as the construction of the Oder-Spree Canal . In 1881 he published the memorandum concerning the canalization of the Unterspree from the Dammühlen in Berlin to Spandau . The Wiebeschen plans for the entire project, slightly modified, served as the basis for the expansion of the Spree from the Mühlendammschleuse in Berlin-Mitte to the mouth in Spandau. From 1883 to 1886 the Spree between Spandau and Charlottenburg was regulated and the Charlottenburg lock was built. The Mühlendamm lock was completed in June 1893. With the completion of the Long Bridge at the Berlin City Hall on September 25, 1894, the construction work came to an end, which made it possible to travel with larger ships from the Elbe through Berlin and over the Oder-Spree Canal, which was completed in 1887 to 1891, to the Oder.

Wiebe also designed the Long Bridge in Potsdam, which was rebuilt in 1886–1888. In 1888 Wiebe became the chief construction director for hydraulic engineering. In this capacity he was with others in Lübeck on May 31, 1895 to lay the foundation stone for the Elbe-Trave Canal . After the blows with the silver hammer by the chief customs director Krieger with the words "Nobis bene, nemini male - Lübeck as a blessing, nobody as a blessing", the chief construction director, followed by the chief of staff , Colonel Maximilian von Prittwitz and Gaffron , hit the granite stone .

In 1896 he retired.

family

Wiebe is considered a descendant of the inventor Adam Wybe . His father was the lawyer Friedrich Leopold Wiebe. He had three brothers, including the mechanical engineer Hermann Wiebe , the first rector of the Technical University of Charlottenburg and the railroad builder Friedrich Wiebe . His uncle and father-in-law was the engineer and builder Eduard Wiebe . He had two daughters with his wife Helene, née Wiebe. The younger, Magdalena, was the ornithologist Oskar Heinroth's first wife and worked on several of his books.

A street in Berlin-Moabit is named after him and other members of the family.

literature

• H. Keller: Adolf Wiebe †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , year 28, 1908, No. 58 (from July 22, 1908), p. 393f.
• R. Seifert: Wiebe, Friedrich Ernst Adolf. In: Conrad Matschoss (ed.): Men of technology. VDI-Verlag, Berlin 1925. digitalis.uni-koeln.de (PDF; 1.62 MB)
• Uwe Kieling: Berlin private architect and master railroad builder in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1988, p. 77 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the question of the shipping facilities on Mühlendamm in Berlin . Central Association for the promotion of German river and canal shipping.
2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , September 24, 1994
3. ^ The laying of the foundation stone for the Elbe-Trave Canal. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 37, number 44, edition of June 2, 1895, pp. 297–301.
4. ↑ Wiebestrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )