Christian Havestadt

Christian Havestadt

Havestadt (right) with his partner Max Contag

Christian Havestadt (born July 24, 1852 in Emmerich ; † December 29, 1908 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ) was a German civil engineer .

Life

Christian Havestadt was born in Emmerich as the son of a senior teacher . He attended high school and then the training course prescribed for building officials. In 1878 he took part in the Schinkel competition , in which a shipping canal in the south of Berlin between the Spree and Havel was to be planned. Havestadt received first prize for his work. In the same year he passed the 2nd state examination in construction.

In the summer of 1878 Havestadt went on a study trip to Paris , Belgium , Holland and Denmark . He then entered the civil service as a builder. Another trip with the help of a scholarship took him to England and Scotland to study port and railway systems. In the civil service, Havestadt was deployed to the Ministerial Building Commission, the Court Marshal's Office and the Ministry of Labor until 1882. He also worked as an assistant at the Technical University of Charlottenburg .

On October 8, 1882, together with his college friend and federal brother Max Contag, he founded the engineering company Havestadt & Contag , which specialized in the processing and construction management of civil engineering structures. The Teltow Canal , which was built under the construction management of Havestadt & Contag, is considered the most important work of the very successful company . Christian Havestadt was also appointed chairman of the Teltow Canal Construction Commission by the Teltow district .

In the last years of his life, Havestadt also devoted himself to the plans for the construction of an underground railway in the municipality of Wilmersdorf. Here he was also a member of the municipal council and on the supervisory board of several real estate companies for a long time.

Havestadt family grave in Wilmersdorf cemetery

Havestadt died after a long and severe suffering. His grave is in the Wilmersdorf cemetery .

Honors

• 1894: Appointment to the Royal Building Council.
• 1905: Appointment to the Royal Academy of Civil Engineering.
• 1906: On the occasion of the opening of the Teltow Canal, appointment as a secret building officer .
• 2003: Naming of the Havestadtplatz in Berlin-Adlershof in his memory.

literature

• Teubert: Christian Havestadt †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 29, No. 4 (January 13, 1909), pp. 23–24.
• Ralph Schröder:  Havestadt, Bernard Joseph Anton Christian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 139 ( digitized version ).