Eduard Suling

Eduard Suling (born June 28, 1856 in Bremen , † July 3, 1922 in Bremen) was a German hydraulic engineer and high-ranking state construction officer in Bremen.

biography

Suling was the son of a shipbroker . He graduated from the old grammar school in Bremen and studied construction at the Technical University of Aachen and at the Berlin Building Academy .

In 1881 he worked as a government building supervisor ( trainee lawyer in the public building administration) in Bremen during the renovation of the drainage facility in Blockland . After that he was employed by the Weser Correction from 1883 to 1885 under the direction of chief construction director Ludwig Franzius with the piercing of the Long Bay of the Weser . From 1885 to 1887 he worked on the design of ore loading systems for Santiago de Cuba and for the AG for iron industry and bridge construction vorm. Johann Caspar Harkort in Hochfeld am Rhein . Back in Bremen he carried out further hydraulic engineering work. In 1888 he passed the 2nd state examination for government builder ( Assessor ).

Suling was finally accepted into the Bremen civil service as a building inspector in 1889 , and Franzius appointed him his assistant. From 1893 to 1895 he was in charge of construction management for the Great Weser Correction, then he took over overhead management for the construction of the Great Weser Bridge . In 1899 he designed the canalization of the Central Weser. In 1900 he was appointed building officer. His main task was now to expand the ports in Bremen . The Speicher XI in the Überseestadt of Bremen was built from 1908 to 1912 according to plans by Suling and Nause under the direction of chief construction director Hermann Bücking . On June 1, 1913, Suling was appointed building director and head of port, water and railroad structures (later the Bremen Port Authority).

In 1915 Bücking retired and Suling succeeded him in the office of senior construction director, as the highest construction official in Bremen. In 1922 Anton Hacker succeeded him in the office of port construction director.

Honors

• In 1914 the Technical University of Hanover awarded Suling an honorary doctorate as Dr.-Ing. Eh
• A few months before his death, he was made an extraordinary member of the Prussian Academy of Building .
• The Eduard-Suling-Straße in the Bremen district harbors was named in 1927 after him.

literature

• "P.": Eduard Suling †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 42nd year 1922, No. 57 (from July 15, 1922), p. 334 f.
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .