Amand Jegorowitsch Struwe

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Amand Jegorowitsch Struwe ( Russian Аманд Егорович Струве ; born May 18 jul. / Thirtieth May  1835 greg. In St. Petersburg , Russian Empire ; † August 31 jul. / 12. September  1898 greg. In Kolomna , Russian Empire) was a Russian military engineer and entrepreneur of German origin.

Life

Amand Struwe was born in Saint Petersburg in 1835 to a German aristocratic family whose ancestors emigrated to Russia in the 17th century. After graduating from the Artillery School and the Military Engineering School , he entered active military service and quickly realized that a military career did not appeal to him, after which he continued his studies at the Nikolaev engineering academy. After successfully completing his degree, he began working in railway construction. He led the construction of the Moscow- Nizhny Novgorod railway and the necessary bridges over the Moskva and the Oka . In 1863 he set up a workshop near Kolomna for the manufacture of assembled bridge parts , which was the core of A. Struwe, Kolomna Maschinenfabrik , founded in 1871 , with his brother Gustav Struwe (1833–1882) as director. At the beginning of 1865 the factory already had 9 production buildings, all of which were equipped with the latest technological standards. The factory expanded to manufacture metal products. An iron foundry, a forge and mechanical woodworking and assembly workshops were built, which were soon able to manufacture pontoons, freight cars, locomotives and steamers in large numbers.

He came to Kiev in 1867 as an engineer-captain . There, under his direction, on behalf of Emperor Alexander II , between March 1868 and February 1870, the Struwe Railway Bridge in Kiev, the first railway bridge over the Dnepr and at that time the longest bridge in Europe, was built. He was also significantly involved in the construction of the central water supply, gas-powered street lighting and in 1892 in the first electric tram of the Russian Empire, the Kiev tram . For the construction of the Struwe Bridge he was promoted from the emperor to engineer colonel.

After Struwe left Kiev, he continued to build bridges, such as the Kremenchuk Bridge in 1872 , the Alexander or Syzran Bridge over the Volga and between 1875 and 1879 the Liteiny Bridge in Saint Petersburg. He was promoted to major general during the grand opening of the Liteiny Bridge on September 30, 1879 . After the death of his brother Gustav in June 1882, he took over the management of the mechanical engineering company.

Amand Struwe died at the age of 63 of liver disease on his estate near Kolomna and was buried in the Lutheran part of the Volkovo Cemetery in Saint Petersburg.

Honors

In April 2018, a street in Kiev was named after him.

Web links

Commons : Amand Struwe  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e The Germans in the History of Kiev - Amand Struwe on the website of the Center for German Culture "Wiederstrahl" ; accessed on September 5, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. a b c biography of Amand Jegorowitsch Struwe in the Kiev encyclopedia ; accessed on September 5, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. a b biography of Amand Struwe on Entertaining Petersburg ; accessed on September 5, 2018 (Russian)
  4. Struwe Bridge on mostpro.ru ; accessed on September 5, 2018 (Russian)
  5. Amand Struve on reisen-kiew.com ; accessed on September 5, 2018
  6. newspaper Khreshchatyk ( Хрещатик ), Page 4 of 23 April 2018; accessed on September 5, 2018 (Ukrainian)