Alexander Schäffer

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Alexander Schäffer (also Alexander Schaeffer , * 1844 in Helsingfors , † 1890 in Hamburg ) was a German civil engineer .

Alexander Schäffer was the son of the Lübeck conductor Leopold Schäffer. He attended school in Hamburg and studied from 1862 to 1865 in Karlsruhe and Hanover . He then worked as a hydraulic engineer at the mouth of the Elbe , the Eider and in Wismar . In 1870 he settled in Hamburg, worked briefly in railway construction and went on a study trip to the USA. In 1878/79 he built the "Kaispeicher B" in Hamburg's Speicherstadt as a silo facility , but in 1884 it was converted into a storage facility . For this he constructed a silo lock and received the Reich patent No. 26916 for it. He developed a plan for the tunneling under the Elbe. After this tunnel was not built, he occupied himself with other projects, including in Braunschweig and Frankfurt. In 1887 he returned to Hamburg. He built the quay in Neumühlen . Due to a serious illness, he committed suicide in 1890 at the age of 45.

He received the imperial patent 42945. He was a member of the Architects and Engineers Association of Hamburg .

Herme from Schäffer's grave in the Ohlsdorf cemetery

He was buried in a grave designed by the sculptor Engelbert Peiffer in the Ohlsdorf cemetery (grave location T 14, 145).

Fonts

  • Report on the draft for new paving and sluice building in Wismar . Hinstorff, Wismar 1868.

literature

  • Hamburg and its buildings, taking into account the neighboring cities of Altona and Wandsbek . Hamburg 1914, vol. 1, p. 97.
  • Ralf Wegner: Where Hamburg is most hamburgish - Speicherstadt and Katharinenviertel - A Hamburg city center guide , Graciela Madrigal publishing house, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-927660-00-0 , p.
  • Ralf Lange : Architecture Guide Hamburg . Ed. Menges, Stuttgart 1995, p. 261.
  • Christine Behrens: The Schaeffer tomb by Engelbert Peiffer - a milestone in the Ohlsdorf cemetery . In: Ohlsdorf. Journal for Trauerkultur No. 86, III, 2004, pp. 33–36 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Techen: History of the seaside city of Wismar . Wismar 1929, p. 344.
  2. ↑ Silo closures from Alexander Schaeffer in Hamburg. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 237, 1880, pp. 115-116.
  3. ↑ The conveyor technology. Journal for the construction and operation of lifting equipment and transport systems, pumps, blowers and presses 1907, p. 260.
  4. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung 24, 1890, p. 59.
personal data
SURNAME Schäffer, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaeffer, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsingfors
DATE OF DEATH 1890
Place of death Hamburg