Johann Culemeyer

Johann Heinrich Theodor Friedrich "Hans" Culemeyer (born September 16, 1883 in Hanover ; † January 20, 1951 in Nordholz , Cuxhaven district ) was a German engineer who, through the development of the road scooter , known colloquially as "Culemeyer", for the Deutsche Reichsbahn -Gesellschaft (DRG) became known.

Life

Johann Culemeyer was born on September 16, 1883 in Hanover as the son of the businessman Otto Culemeyer. After receiving his secondary school leaving certificate, he did his military service from 1902 to 1903. In 1908 he finished his studies at the Technical University of Hanover with a degree in civil engineering. He then went on to train as a government construction manager at the Royal Railway Directorate in Hanover (1909–1912), after completing his training he became a line builder in the Celle-Braunschweig and Peine construction department. In 1921 he was promoted to government building officer and from 1922 to 1923 completed a one-year special mechanical engineering course at the Technical University of Berlin . He switched to the mechanical engineering service of the Reichsbahn at the Reichsbahn-Zentralamt in Berlin, where he then worked in the department for the construction of freight wagons for special purposes. In 1927 he was appointed head of the department for special goods wagons.

Culemeyer street scooter from 1935

From 1930 onwards, Culemeyer was involved in the further development of the English rail-road cars and the French interchangeable vehicles as head construction officer at the Central Office for Mechanical Engineering in Berlin. Under the name "Wheeled siding developed by him was" Road Roller on November 29, 1931 applied for a patent; the patent was granted on November 9, 1933. In 1933, the street scooter, its functions and the loading processes were presented to the public at the Anhalter Güterbahnhof Berlin. This trailer enabled freight cars and heavy loads to be transported by road.

Johann Culemeyer developed different types of road scooters for different requirements. He received his doctorate in 1934 with the thesis "The road vehicle for railroad cars, a traffic task and its solutions". In 1935 he became Reichsbahndirektor in the department of construction, purchasing and operation of road vehicles for railroad cars and took over the management of the motor vehicle department. In 1945 Johann Culemeyer moved to Göttingen and after the end of the war continued to work with the Uerdingen wagon factory on the export of road scooters to Scandinavia.

Johann Culemeyer died on January 20, 1951 in Nordholz at the age of 67, he was buried in Göttingen.

On November 4, 1976 a private road of the administration of the former Reichsbahn Vermögens ( VdeR ) in Berlin-Marienfelde ( Tempelhof district ) was named after Johann Culemeyer. The road is approved for public traffic and forms a dead end with several industrial residents. Schwechtenstrasse is also in the neighborhood ; this was named after the architect of the Anhalter Bahnhof .

Fonts

• The railroad into the house . Otto Elsner Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1939

literature

• J. Wahl, A. Luig: Kaelble . Podszum Verlag, 1999
• AB Gottwaldt: Deutsche Reichsbahn 1935 . Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1975
• Matthias Hengst: Train into the house . Railroad Journal June 2001
• Udo Kandler: Culemeyer vehicles, road scooters and tractors in regular and heavy duty use on the Deutsche Reichsbahn . EK-Verlag GmbH, Freiburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-88255242-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Culemeyer in the catalog of the German National Library