August Raupp
August Raupp (born January 28, 1838 in Karlsruhe , † November 6, 1891 in Constance ) was a German engineer , director and owner of the gasworks in Constance.
Education and professional career
August Raupp, son of ore caster and gas works builder Heinrich Raupp (1805–1898), studied at the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe and became a member of the Teutonia fraternity . Together with his brother Heinrich Raupp and his father, he devoted himself to building gas works . Among other things, he was involved in the construction of the gasworks in Lahr in 1858/59, in Schaffhausen (Saar) in 1860, in Konstanz in 1861, in Ravensburg in 1862 and in Saargemünd in 1863. From 1864 he was director and owner of the gasworks in Konstanz.
August Raupp's life came to a tragic end: he built a new gasometer , which probably sagged due to insufficient foundations . Raupp looked for the causes of the accident by comparing it with existing gasometers. He fell into the water tank of a gasometer and drowned. Whether this was an accident or suicide could not be determined.
swell
- Journal of Gas Lighting and Water Supply, No. 35, 1891.
- Johannes Körting: Karlsruhe as a gas city in the early days , 1969
- Hubert Henning: 125 years of gas for Constance: 1861 - 1986 , ed. from Stadtwerke Konstanz, 1986
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Kirschner: Directory of Members of the Karlsruhe Burschenschaft Teutonia , 1966.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raupp, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 1891 |
| Place of death | Constancy |