Alfred Gaedertz

Alfred Gaedertz (born June 27, 1853 in Manchester , † November 6, 1907 in Wiesbaden ) was a German railway engineer.

Life

Alfred Gaedertz was the son of Georg Wilhelm Gaedertz and grandson of the Lübeck Senator Johann Heinrich Gaedertz . After attending school and studying at the Stuttgart Polytechnic , he worked as a Prussian government site manager at the ports of Wilhelmshaven . After passing the state examination and briefly working in the Württemberg building administration, he was hired by the Romanian State Railways in the early 1880s . The late 1880s he moved to the Eastern Railway by Maurice de Hirsch and looked at the mountain ranges of Thessaloniki to Bitola and Thessaloniki to Alexandroupoli with. He then worked for the Anatolian Railway as head of the technical construction office for the line from İzmit to Ankara and branch lines. In 1898 he was commissioned with preparatory work for the Schantung Railway and in 1899 he was a technical member of the board of this railway company. In 1903 he became chairman of the board of the Otavi Mining and Railway Company in German South West Africa, founded by the Hamburg lawyer Julius Scharlach . An industrial accident put an end to his career as a railroad builder. He was buried in the Berlin Grunewald cemetery.

Fonts

• Concrete bridge with granite joints over the Eyach near Imnau in Hohenzollern , Ernst, Berlin 1898
• Route recordings in the Shan-Tung province as preliminary work for the planned railway from Tsing-Tau via Tsinan-Fu to Té-Tschou: March to June 1898 , Justus Perthes, Gotha 1899
• A reconnaissance trip in the province of Schan-Tung , [Justus Perthes], [Gotha] 1899
• Schantung: Lecture , Reimer, Berlin 1902
• Building history of the Schantung Railway , [self-published], Berlin 1904

literature

• Walter Sbrzesny:  Alfred Gaedertz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 17 ( digitized version ).