Carl Julius Abel

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Carl Julius Abel (1858)

Carl Julius Abel , from 1881 von Abel , (born September 10, 1818 in Ludwigsburg , † July 10, 1883 in Friedrichshafen ) was a German railway engineer and Württemberg construction clerk . He directed the construction of numerous railway lines in the 1860s and 1870s .

Life

Abel was born the son of the district building officer Ludwig Abel and a professor's daughter. He was the second oldest son out of a total of seven siblings. His brother Heinrich became mayor of Ludwigsburg and a member of the state parliament. Eduard Mörike was a cousin. Abel attended the Ludwigsburg Latin School until 1833 , after which he took lessons in the royal general master staff for a year. From 1834 to 1836 he attended the royal trade school in Stuttgart , and then by the end of 1839 he obtained his degree as an engineer at the Parisian École centrale des arts et manufactures . It is possible that this was the first time he met Karl Etzel .

Between 1840 and 1842, Carl Julius Abel initially worked on the construction of the Strasbourg – Basel railway line. He then moved to Württemberg as an intern. Together with von Bühler, he first went on various study trips abroad. After working as a railway construction inspector , he supported Karl Etzel as an employee in the construction of the Rosenstein tunnel . In October 1845 he was promoted to "inspector and director of the technical bureau". Then he worked under the direction of Etzel and Knoll on the construction of the Filstalbahn and the Geislinger Steige . From 1846 to 1850 he was in charge of the Biberach an der Riss building authority under Ludwig Friedrich Gaab during the construction of the Württemberg Southern Railway .

Abel married in 1850 and was promoted again. Since he only had a French, but not a Württemberg degree, his salary remained at the same level as when he was hired. Due to sluggish construction activity in the Württemberg railway system, he followed Etzel to Hungary in 1857 , where both worked on the planning of the Groß-Kanisza - Stuhlweissenburg line . In the same year Abel was called back to his homeland. When filling the post of a building councilor, which was newly created to relieve von Gaab, he initially lost out to his competitor Georg von Morlok , but was appointed to the building council shortly afterwards. In 1869 he was appointed senior building officer and in 1881 he was raised to the personal nobility by being awarded the order of the Württemberg crown . In 1876 Carl Julius Abel retired. Since it was unclear whether his internship would be added to the total number of years of service, a dispute arose initially about the amount of his pension . King Karl decided in Abel's favor.

On January 10, 1881, a building contractor assassinated Carl Julius Abel, who was critically injured by these shots. The perpetrator had previously been in a protracted dispute with the Württemberg railways , which had driven him to economic ruin, and wanted to take revenge with his act.

Carl Julius von Abel died in Friedrichshafen on July 10, 1883.

Act

The Kocherbahn (Heilbronn – Crailsheim, 1862–1867), the Heilbronn – Jagstfeld (1866), the Enzbahn (Pforzheim – Bad Wildbad, 1868), the Black Forest Railway (Zuffenhausen – Calw, 1868–1872), the Nagoldbahn (sections Pforzheim – Calw and Nagold – Horb, 1874) and the Murrtalbahn (Waiblingen – Hessenthal, 1876–1880). The Württemberg section of the Kraichgaubahn (Heilbronn – Eppingen, 1878–1880) and the Backnang – Bietigheim / Ludwigsburg branch of the Murrbahn (1879 and 1881) were planned by him, but no longer executed .

In addition, between 1860 and 1867 he was in charge of the planning and implementation of civil engineering work for the first expansion of Stuttgart's main train station . Abel was praised as a good railroad engineer, while his colleague Morlok excelled as an architect.

literature

  • Roland Feitenhansl: Heilbronn train station. Its reception building from 1848, 1874 and 1958. DGEG Medien, Hövelhof 2003, ISBN 3-937189-01-7 .
  • Christian Schrenk: The three railway designers in the Heilbronn – Schwäbisch Hall area. Karl Etzel, Georg Morlok and Carl Julius Abel. In: Swabia and Franconia. Volume 33, 1987, number 8, pages 1-4.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 3rd year 1883, No. 30 of July 28, 1883; online , p. 274. (short obituary)
  2. ^ Victor von Röll : Encyclopedia of the Railway System. Volume 1, Berlin / Vienna 1912, p. 3 f.
personal data
SURNAME Abel, Carl Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES from Abel, Carl Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German railway engineer, Württemberg construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1883
Place of death Friedrichshafen