Christian Eckermann

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Christian Hinrich Eckermann (born November 30, 1833 in Elmshorn ; † June 8, 1904 in Kiel , buried in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf ) was a German civil engineer.

Live and act

Christian Eckermann was a son of the Elmshorn master tailor Detlef Eckermann (* January 7, 1801 in Elmshorn; † February 22, 1866 there) and his wife Margaretha, née Dierks (* February 25, 1791 in Elmshorn; † May 27, 1883). His mother was a daughter of Barthold Hinrich Dierks (around 1763-1828). He went to the elementary school in Elmshorn and from 1848 to 1850 in the private school of Dr. Caesar Stoeßiger, where he learned foreign languages.

After confirmation, Eckermann received practical training as a land knife in Dithmarschen . In the spring of 1856 he passed the exam at the responsible commission in Kiel. In December 1856 he received the royal diploma as a surveyor. In November 1857 he was appointed as such for Holstein and Lauenburg. During 18574 he measured dikes and rivers in Norderdithmarschen . In 1858 he took over the management of the work on the summer dike in front of Hedwigenkoog as a supervisory engineer .

From December 1858 to the summer of 1860 Eckermann studied at the Munich Polytechnic. He then moved to Lunden and worked again as an engineer in the dyke and hydraulic engineering in Norderdithmarschens, in 1862 as a section engineer during the dike in Wesselburenerkoog . In September 1864, the Austro-Prussian civil authority for the duchies appointed him acting road construction inspector for the 3rd district of Schleswig and assigned him Bredstedt as his place of residence. When he was officially appointed by Carl von Scheel-Plessen in September 1866, however, he lived in Husum .

In 1869 Eckermann went back to his previous place of work as a provisional district building officer for Norderdithmarschen. In 1871 he was appointed building inspector and presumably at the same time confirmed as district building officer. When the earthworks to dike the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog began in 1872 , problems arose, so Eckermann was given construction management. He was able to complete the work a year later. During this time he lived in Heide. In 1876 he moved from the Prussian civil service to the Schleswig-Holstein provincial administration. As a road construction inspector, he looked after the districts of Norderdithmarschen, Eiderstedt, Husum, Tondern and the former area of ​​Stapelholm. He kept his residence in Heide. In 1894 he went to the head office of the provincial administration in Kiel as a state building officer. Here he was in charge of all road construction and small railways.

Eckermann fell seriously ill in the last years of his life, but worked until the end of his life.

Significance in the field

Since a large part of the provincial administration's documents were destroyed during the Second World War, Eckermann's performance cannot be correctly assessed from a technical point of view. According to an obituary, he was an able, hardworking, and knowledgeable civil servant who was popular because of his humor.

Eckermann became known beyond the specialist field with his essays on the history of dikes along the entire west coast of Schleswig-Holstein. These appeared in the journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History . These were the first expert treatises on this that Eckermann produced on the basis of handwritten sources.

Eckermann met Theodor Storm during his time in Husum . After Storm moved to Hademarschen , a closer relationship developed between the two families. Storm used Eckermann's knowledge when he worked on the novella Der Schimmelreiter from 1885 to 1888 . He tried to describe the dyke construction and dyke break as realistically as possible.

family

Around 1867 Eckermann married Emma Christiane Caroline Adele Dumreicher (* July 14, 1845 in Pinneberg ; † December 23, 1902 in the Schleswig Provincial Insane Asylum). Her father Johann Friedrich Thomas Dumreicher (1790–1848) worked as an actuary for the Pinneberg rule and was married to Johanna Adeline, née Schaedtler (1807–1889).

The Eckermann couple had a son and three daughters. The daughter Emma Louise Adele ( Ada ) (born February 13, 1878, † after 1951) married Johann Sass (1867-1951). Her husband worked as a librarian and from 1926 headed the Political Archives of the Foreign Office .

literature

  • Dieter Lohmeier: Eckermann, Christian . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pages 100-102.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Eckermann, Christian . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 100.
  2. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Eckermann, Christian . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pages 100-101.
  3. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Eckermann, Christian . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 101.
  4. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Eckermann, Christian . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 101.
  5. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Eckermann, Christian . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 101.
  6. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Eckermann, Christian . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991 ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 101.
  7. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Eckermann, Christian . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 101.
  8. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Eckermann, Christian . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 100.
  9. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Eckermann, Christian . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 100.
personal data
SURNAME Eckermann, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eckermann, Christian Hinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Elmshorn
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1904
Place of death Kiel