Anton Ferdinand Benda

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Portrait of Anton Ferdinand Benda (1817-1893). 1856 Lübeck by Carl Gustav Oehme (1817–1881).

Anton Ferdinand Benda (born February 10, 1817 in Berlin , † January 6, 1893 in Lübeck ) was a German civil engineer and construction clerk .

Life

Anton Ferdinand was born as the son of the Berlin publicist and city councilor Daniel Alexander Benda (1786–1870) and his wife Veilchen. Sachs (1778– approx. 1858) was born. He came from a Jewish family and had a sister Esther (* October 16, 1813; † unknown). Both later converted to Christianity. Her uncle was the royal government building inspector Solomon Sachs .

As a department engineer in the railway service of Magdeburg-Wittenberg ash Railway Company (NWE) designed Benda 1846, built from 1847 to 1851, the Elbe crossing by the railway bridge at Wittenberg during the Magdeburg-Wittenberge railway . In 1855 he entered the service of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck as State Building Director and at the same time became Operations or Technical Director of the Lübeck-Büchener Railway . While he gave up the office of the city's building director in 1863, he became railway director in 1873 and retired on January 1, 1888. During his period of service, the construction and completion in 1864 of the Lauenburg – Hohnstorf trajectory (replaced by the Lauenburg Elbe Bridge in 1878 ), the direct Lübeck – Hamburg railway line and the construction of the connection to Travemünde . At his funeral on January 10, 1893, his two successors, Walther Brecht as operations director and Hermann Textor as a supplement to the management, appeared in the LBE. Benda is one of the co-founders of the Father City Association and the Technical Association in Lübeck.

He was the father of the lawyer and politician Johannes Daniel Benda .

Honors

In 1865 Benda was awarded the Prussian Order of the Crown, 4th class. Like his son later, Benda was honored by the Lübeck Senate in 1887 with the highest award in Lübeck, the Bene Merenti commemorative coin .

Fonts

literature

  • Deutsche Bauzeitung , 22nd year 1888, p. 23.
  • VBll , year 1905, p. 11.
  • Alken Bruns: Johannes Daniel Benda . In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Volume 11, Karl Wachholtz, Neumünster 2000, ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , pp. 26-29.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Halgard Kuhn: Daniel Alexander Benda (1786-1870), the second Jewish municipal councilor in Berlin. In: Berlin in Past and Present 2009, SS 101–140.
  2. ^ Jacob Jacobson : Jewish weddings in Berlin 1759 to 1813. With additions for the years 1723-1759. Walter de Gruyter, 1968, p. 501
  3. ^ Heinz Muchow: How the arable town of Wittenberge developed into an industrial town. The important epoch of the city's history from the 19th century to around the middle of the 20th century 2001, p. 34
  4. ^ Files in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
  5. ↑ BAST
  6. ↑ Rubric: Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 35th year, number 4, edition of January 11, 1893, p. 24.
personal data
SURNAME Benda, Anton Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1893
Place of death Lübeck