Eduard Nobiling

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Eduard Adolph Nobiling (born June 7, 1801 in Lödderitz , † December 27, 1882 in Fachingen ) was an important German power engineer .

Life

Nobiling was born the son of a chief forester in the Principality of Anhalt-Dessau . After attending high school in Magdeburg , he trained as a surveyor in this city. He completed his practical apprenticeship with the state surveyor's examination and with the swearing-in on June 15, 1819, whereupon he worked until October 1823 on a diet basis and with reference to travel expenses from the royal government in Magdeburg for power consumption, dykes and construction work in water and road construction was employed. Between 1836 and 1877 he worked with great success to expand and regulate the Rhine and its tributaries. As part of his work on straightening the Rhine , he shortened the Middle Rhine by 40 km and expanded The Wild Danger , one of the most difficult rapids to pass . From 1851 to 1877 he headed the Rheinstrom building administration as Rheinstrom building director.

The wild danger 1868. In red rocks that were blown up during the expansion between 1850 and 1868.

In all of his work, Nobiling saw the river as a natural phenomenon, the regulation of which would only lead to success by directing the forces of nature. Therefore, all measures had to be on schedule and see the electricity in context, but they still had to be gradually adapted to the respective local conditions. It could not be made navigable without flood regulation, without bank protection and without an order of the dyke system. Where necessary, islands have been eliminated by e.g. B. were connected to the bank. Other islands were included in the planning of the fairway so that they could remain.

Eduard Nobiling's nephew Karl Eduard Nobiling (1848–1878) made a second attempted assassination on June 2, 1878 , in which Kaiser Wilhelm I was injured by two rounds of shot. The assassin shot himself in the head when he was arrested and died after a few months in the remand prison without being able to be questioned again. Eduard Nobiling was very ashamed of his nephew's act and, like the other members of the family, gratefully accepted the imperial permission to rename himself Edeling. From 1878 until his death he called himself Eduard Adolph Edeling.

Edeling died on December 27, 1882 around 6 o'clock in the evening in Fachingen near Diez . He was buried in the Niederlahnstein cemetery. At the suggestion of the Queen of Prussia and later Empress Augusta (1811–1890), a plaque commemorates this important hydraulic engineer .

literature

  • Lars U. Scholl: Nobiling (since 1878 Edeling), Eduard Adolph. In: New German Biography. 19 (1999), p. 303 f ( online ).
  • Lars U. Scholl: Eduard Adolf Nobiling / Edeling (1801-1882): a biographical sketch on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death. In: German Shipping Archive. 5 (1982), pp. 31-40 ( PDF ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Adolph Edeling, in: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung 3, 1883, p. 7 f .; Deutsche Bauzeitung 17, 1883, p. 28. - In the Rhine Museum in Koblenz there is a file box with various archival materials on Nobiling.
  2. ↑ See the appraisal from D. vd Bussche-Haddenhausen: Eduard Adolph Nobiling, the first Rheinstrombaudirektor. In: Contributions to Rheinkunde 9, 1958, pp. 18–34.
  3. ↑ See note 18; Lahnsteiner Anzeiger, No. 65, of June 4, 1878.
  4. ↑ See the obituary in the Coblenzer Zeitung no. 356, dated December 29, 1882, that of Max Edeling and his wife Martha and of the royal district administrator in Mülheim ad Ruhr, Paul Haniel, and his wife Ida, born. Edeling, is signed.
personal data
SURNAME Nobiling, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nobiling, Eduard Adolph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German master builder
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Anhalt-Dessau
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1882
Place of death Fachingen