Alexander von Oer

Alexander von Oer

Alexander Ernst Theobald Freiherr von Oer (born August 26, 1841 in Dresden ; † April 20, 1896 there ) was a German road and railroad engineer and rector of the Dresden University of Technology .

Life

Grave of Alexander von Oer in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden

Alexander von Oer was born in Dresden in 1841 as one of eight children of the painter Theobald von Oer and his wife Marie Ernestine Schumann (1816–1878). His siblings included painter Anna Maria von Oer , the spiritual writer Sebastian von Oer (1845–1925) and Franz von Oer (1852–1930), Vicar General of the Diocese of Graz-Seckau.

After finishing high school, Alexander von Oer studied civil engineering at the Dresden Polytechnic from 1856 to 1861 and passed the state examination as civil engineer in 1865. He then worked as an engineer for the Saxon State Railways. In 1879 Oer was appointed director of the Leipzig I railway engineering district; five years later he became operations director. In 1889 he was promoted to a member of the General Management of the Royal Saxon State Railways and became Finance Council in the Saxon Ministry of Finance. He carried the title of Privy Councilor .

From 1891 Alexander von Oer taught tunnel construction at the Technical University of Dresden, where he had studied himself, and in 1894, succeeding Christian Otto Mohr, he became a full professor of road and rail construction at the university. On February 29, 1896, he took over the office of rector from Martin Krause during the first solemn investiture of the university. Shortly thereafter, he fell seriously ill and died on the first day of the new semester at the university, almost two months after taking office. In view of the death of its rector, the then Saxon minister of culture, Paul von Seydewitz , informed the university that King Albert was “warmly involved in this loss”. Alexander von Oer was buried in the Oer family grave in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden.

Publications

• after 1875: Chemnitz-Komotau Railway, 2 overview maps, pen drawing
• 1877: About the use of iron in tunnel construction. In: Communications from the Association of Engineers and Architects 1877.

literature

• Oer, Alexander Freiherr von . In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003 . Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. by Reiner Pommerin. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , pp. 692-693.
• Obituary in: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. XVI. Volume, No. 17, from April 25, 1896, p. 188.

Web links

• Register entry for Alexander von Oer in the German biography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sebastian von Oer on benediktinerlexikon.de
2. ^ List of students from the Technical Educational Institute (TBA) / Polytechnic School (PS) / Polytechnikum Dresden (PT) for the period (1828–) 1836–1887 -O- on tu-dresden.de
3. ↑ Oer, Alexander Freiherr von . In: Dorit Petschel: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003, p. 693.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Todtenschau . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , 6th year, No. 1, 1897, p. 23.
5. ^ Reiner Pommerin: History of the TU Dresden 1828–2003 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003, p. 113.
6. ^ Reiner Pommerin: History of the TU Dresden 1828–2003 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003, p. 84.
7. ↑ ^{a b} The Royal. Saxon. Technical university under the elective rectorate . In: Wilhelm Scheffler: Saxony's Technical University of Dresden. Seventy years of development . 2nd Edition. Verlag FL Staub, Dresden 1899, p. 48.