August Hirsch (civil engineer)

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August Hirsch (* 16th April 1852 at Gut Tralauerholz in Rethwisch village ; † the thirtieth April 1922 in Aachen ) was a German civil engineer , harbor builder and university teacher , he taught as a professor of waterways and was temporarily rector of the Technical University of Aachen .

Live and act

After graduating from high school, August Hirsch studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Aachen and passed the 2nd state examination to become a government architect ( assessor in public building administration) in 1881 . He gained practical experience at the Kaiserliche Werft Kiel and the Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven and was finally hired from 1882 as site manager for the port construction company Rhein-Ruhr-Kanal-Aktienverein in Duisburg to build port bridges and locks. In 1885, Hirsch followed a call from Ludwig Franzius to Bremen to help plan the construction of the future Bremen free port as a department head .

Just four years later, Feodor Goecke brought him back to Duisburg as his successor and port construction director on behalf of the city administration, where Hirsch expanded and expanded the inner and outer harbors and rebuilt the parallel port that opened in 1899. In doing so, he played a decisive role in the future world renown of the Duisburg-Ruhrort ports, which were later united in 1905 . In this context he also broke new ground in the planning and integration of the various types of cargo handling for bulk cargo, the corresponding construction of the coal dump trucks and the railway equipment.

After these ports were merged under the direction of the tax authorities, Hirsch, meanwhile promoted to the Secret Building Councilor, moved to RWTH Aachen University, where he was appointed full professor for hydraulic engineering and foundation engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering. Here he taught until his retirement in 1921 and, as rector, he managed the university from 1911 to 1913 as the successor to August Hertwig and was also a member of the Aachen district association of the Association of German Engineers (VDI).

In 1928, the city administration of Duisburg decided to name a street after him in honor of its former port construction director August Hirsch, which was initially only called Hirschstraße and finally from 1931 August-Hirsch-Straße.

August Hirsch was a member of the Corps Delta.

family

Hirsch was a son of the landowner Gustav Adolph Hirsch (1806-1882) and his wife Emma Elisabeth Schröder (1816-1887).

On September 12, 1882, he married Anna Schilling (1857–1941), daughter of the engineer Johannes Hermann Schilling (1829–1864) from his marriage to Elisabeth Kunhardt (1835–1905), the youngest daughter of the Hamburg businessman Carl Philipp Kunhardt (1782– 1854). The couple had five children, three of whom died in the First World War . The daughter Elisabeth Hirsch (1888-1940) was married to the civil engineer and professor at the Technical University of Aachen, Oskar Domke (1874-1945), and the son Arnold Hirsch (* 1898) became president of the Federal Institute for Hydrology in Koblenz and was a father of the legal scholar Hans Joachim Hirsch (1929–2011).

Fonts

  • Lock lock in Duisburg . In: Ministry of Public Works (Hrsg.): Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung . Volume V., No. 51 . Ernst and Korn, Berlin December 19, 1885, OCLC 220370084 , p. 538–539 ( Central and State Library Berlin [accessed on March 3, 2015]).
  • August Hirsch, Hugo Hoernecke, Wilhelm Sunkel, Friedrich Neukirch, R. Müller: New port facilities in Bremen opened in 1888 . Ed .: Ludwig Franzius . Gebrüder Jänecke, Hanover 1888, OCLC 699047422 ( digitalis.uni-koeln.de [accessed on March 3, 2015]).
  • The expansion of the Duisburg port facilities . In: Ministry of Public Works (Hrsg.): Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung . Volume XV., No. 32 . Ernst and Korn, Berlin August 10, 1895, OCLC 220370084 , p. 341–343 ( Central and State Library Berlin [accessed on March 3, 2015]).
  • The reintroduction of shipping taxes on the natural waterways. Speech for the pre-celebration of the birthday of Sr. Majesty Kaiser Wilhelm II. Held on January 25, 1908 in the Aula of the Königl. Technical University of Aachen . La Ruelle, Aachen 1908, OCLC 163091730 ( RWTH Aachen [PDF; accessed on March 3, 2015]).
  • The railway equipment of the ports . Ed .: Association for safeguarding the interests of navigation on the Rhine (=  time issues of inland navigation . Issue 13). Rhein-Verlagsgesellschaft, Duisburg 1922, OCLC 72544274 .

literature

Web link and sources

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Eckert : Student in Aachen 1870–1920. 1921.
  2. ^ Hans Joachim Hirsch : Hans Joachim Hirsch . In: Eric Hilgendorf (Ed.): The German-language criminal law studies in self-portrayals (=  contemporary legal history. Department 4: Life and Work ). tape 12 . De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010, DNB  1003422403 , p. 125-166 ( Excerpt at Google Books [accessed March 3, 2015]).
personal data
SURNAME Hirsch, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirsch, August Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer, port builder and university lecturer at RWTH Aachen
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Tralauerholz near Rethwischdorf
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1922
Place of death Aachen