Carl Kuehne

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Carl Kühne as a corps student in 1893

Carl Kühne (born November 13, 1871 in Neuwiese, Goldberg district in Silesia; † September 13, 1956 in Borgholzhausen ) was a German engineer and pioneer of modern municipal water supply for large cities and metropolitan areas.

Life

Carl Kühne began studying mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg in the summer semester of 1890 and was active in the Corps Saxonia-Berlin in the same semester. In the summer semester of 1891, the then suspended Corps Pomerania, today's Corps Pomerania-Silesia in Bayreuth, reconstituted with three other Berlin Corps students.

After graduating, he entered the civil service, initially as a government site manager for mechanical engineering. In 1900 he was appointed government builder. From 1900 to 1905 he built systems for the Charlottenburg waterworks. He then worked for three years as a councilor in the Imperial Patent Office before becoming director of Deutsche Wasserwerke AG in Berlin in 1908. After the dissolution of Deutsche Wasserwerke AG in 1913, he was appointed director of the Berlin municipal waterworks in 1914, which he held until 1937. In these three decades he had a decisive influence on the design of Berlin's water supply, which was then the largest groundwater supply in the world with a generally excellent level of technical availability and efficiency, organization and hygienic quality. With his work he became a pioneer of modern water supply for large cities and metropolitan areas. His special concern was the highlighting of the hygienic advantages of the groundwater as well as the cooperation between science and practice in water supply technology.

He was one of the leading figures in urban water supply in Germany. From 1922 to 1925 he was chairman of the Brandenburg Association of Gas and Water Experts, and from 1926 to 1928 of the German Gas and Water Association (DVGW). He played a leading role in the Gas and Water exhibition in Berlin in 1929 . On his initiative, the Berlin Water Works Museum, which was destroyed in bombing raids in World War II, was built in a former machine house of the Westend intermediate pumping station. He was also a member of the Technical Committee of the German Association of Cities.

After his retirement, Carl Kühne lived withdrawn due to illness with his wife in Borgholzhausen in the Teutoburg Forest.

Awards

  • In 1929 Carl Kühne was appointed a member of the Reich Health Council.
  • In 1929 he was appointed a full member of the Prussian Academy of Building.
  • In 1930 he was awarded the Bunsen-Pettenkofer Honor Roll of the DVGW.
  • In 1933 the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg awarded him the title of Dr.-Ing. In recognition of his services to the scientific promotion of the area of ​​urban water supply . E. h. awarded.
  • In 1938 he became an honorary member of the DVGW.
  • He was awarded a plaque and a certificate of honor by the Technical Emergency Aid.

swell

  • Personal information in Das Gas- und Wasserfach, 81st year, 1938, pp. 14–15
  • Personal news in GWF, 92nd year, 1951, issue 20, pp. 287–288
  • Carl Weigandt: History of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin to Aachen 1867-1967 , Aachen 1968

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Personal news in GWF, Volume 97, 1956, Issue 22, p. 975
  2. ^ Official notifications in Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung, XX. Volume, 1900, No. 37, p. 221
  3. ↑ Personal information in Das Gas- und Wasserfach, Volume 72, 1929, Issue 6, p. 143
  4. ↑ Personal information in the gas and water compartment, 72nd year, 1929, issue 28, p. 709
  5. ↑ Owner of the Bunsen-Pettenkofer roll of honor ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dvgw.de
  6. ↑ Honorary members of the DVGW ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dvgw.de
personal data
SURNAME Kühne, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuwiese, Goldberg district in Silesia
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1956
Place of death Borgholzhausen