Carl Calebow

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Carl (Karl) Ludwig August Calebow (* 1802 in Stettin ; † 1883 ) was a German engineer , master builder , railway director and building officer .

Life

Carl Calebow received training as a surveyor and was taken in 1828 as "Government Conducteur in oath". With the master builder examination in 1827 he became construction conductor at the Berlin-Anhaltische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . From 1842 to 1845 he was in the same position at the Düsseldorf-Elberfelder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (DEE) . His successor was the later operations director of DEE Joseph Ferdinand Wilhelmy. He then became a senior engineer and later, as the successor to Ludwig Scabell, operations director of the Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . Calebow played a key role in the construction of the Berlin-Szczecin Railway and the expansion of the Stargard - Köslin / Kolberg line .

In May 1848 he was a signatory to a protest note against the March Revolution in Berlin . In 1854 he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislaus , 2nd class. This was followed by the award of the Red Eagle Order , IV class, in early 1857. In 1862 he was awarded the title of building councilor.

On his retirement in 1862 he received a silver honorary cup, which was donated in 2011 by his descendant, the diplomat Wolf Calebow , and has since been exhibited in the German Museum of Technology in Berlin .

Carl Calebow was married to a daughter of the Prussian Major General Adolph von Kurowski .

Among other things, he was a member of the Association for Railway Studies in Berlin and was involved in the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors .

literature

  • Brief curriculum vitae in sources on the history of the railroad in the northern Rhineland, Westphalia and Lippe from its beginnings to 1880, Volume 2, Verlag Franz Schmitt, 1998, p. 1132.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Official Gazette of the Government in Stettin: 1828 . Government in Stettin, 1828, p. 79 ( google.de [accessed February 7, 2020]).
  2. ^ Railway yearbook for railway officials and state authorities: tables for comparative statistics of the construction and operation of the German railways from their creation to the end of the year. Mittler, 1846, p. XV ( google.de [accessed February 7, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Thomas Vährmann, Susanne Brockfeld, Michael Funk: Sources on the history of the railway in the northern Rhineland, in Westphalia and Lippe from the beginnings to 1880 . Respublica, 1998, ISBN 978-3-87710-184-1 , pp. 1154 ( google.de [accessed February 7, 2020]).
  4. ^ Friedr Wilh von Reden: Railway Yearbook for Railway Officials and State Authorities: 15 tables for comparative statistics of the construction and operation of the German railways until 1845 . ES Mittler, 1847, p. XXiX ( google.de [accessed on February 7, 2020]).
  5. ↑ The Berlinische Zeitung, which was royal privileged for matters of state and scholarship: 1848.4 / 6 . Voss. Erben, 1848 ( google.de [accessed February 7, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung Munich: 1854, [1] . General Newspaper, 1855, p. 318 ( google.de [accessed on February 7, 2020]).
  7. ^ Allgemeine Zeitung Munich, 1798-1925 . General Newspaper, 1858, p. 366 ( google.de [accessed February 7, 2020]).
  8. ^ Journal of Construction . Ernst, 1862, p. 149 ( google.de [accessed February 7, 2020]).
  9. ^ Official report on the ... meeting of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors ... 1864 ( google.de [accessed on February 7, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Calebow, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calebow, Karl; Calebow, Carl Ludwig August; Calebow, Karl Ludwig August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, railway director and building officer
DATE OF BIRTH 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH 1883