Eduard Wiebe

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Eduard Wiebe (born October 12, 1804 in Stalle near Marienburg (West Prussia) ; † February 23, 1892 in Berlin ; full name: Friedrich Eduard Salomon Wiebe ) was a German civil engineer and Prussian construction officer who worked in the fields of railway construction and urban civil engineering (Sewer) emerged.

Life

In 1826 he began his studies at the Berlin Building Academy . At the same time he studied mathematics and physics at the Berlin Friedrich Wilhelms University . In 1836 he became a builder . In the service of the Düsseldorf-Elberfelder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft he was the construction engineer for the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld railway , the first railway line in West Germany. Completely unusual for the time were the steep gradients of the route of up to 3.3 percent, which were managed with a cable pull system. After discovering that no one could operate the locomotives, he took his own training in driving the machines in Belgium. After his return, he trained local staff and drove himself when the route opened.

In the following years he worked as a government and building officer in Cologne and worked for the railway commissioner in Erfurt . In 1849 he became a technical member of the management of the Prussian Eastern Railway in Bromberg and became its chairman in 1853. From 1856 he managed the construction of the railway line from Stargard to Köslin and Kolberg on behalf of the Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , for this project he was given leave of absence from civil service. In 1859 he moved to the building department of the Prussian Ministry of Commerce in Berlin as a lecturer . There he was responsible for the development of a drainage system for Berlin. In 1860 he traveled to Great Britain and France with James Hobrecht and Ludwig Alexander Veitmeyer to study urban sewer systems . In 1861 he submitted a plan for draining Berlin in underground canals based on the London model. The sewage was to be channeled through a pipeline network into two canals and into the Spree west of Berlin , the plan was rejected for hygienic reasons. Hobrecht later expanded the concept to a decentralized radial system in which the city was divided into individual areas, from the lowest point of which the sewage was pumped onto the Berlin sewage fields .

Wiebe designed the drainage system for the city of Gdansk in 1863 , which was built according to his plans in 1872. For this he was awarded honorary citizenship of the city of Danzig in 1884 . He also developed drainage systems for Breslau , Trieste and Königsberg . From 1866 he planned the Berlin-Lehrter Railway .

In 1875 he retired.

Eduard Wiebe died in Berlin in 1892 at the age of 87. He was buried in the old churchyard of the Twelve Apostles congregation in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

A street in Berlin-Moabit is named after him and other members of the family.

Works

  • Inclined levels with locomotives: a tried and tested means of avoiding stationary steam engines and for cheaper production of railways in mountainous areas . Schropp, Berlin 1842 digitized

Web links

literature

  • o. V .: Secret Oberbaurath ret. Eduard Wiebe †. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 12th year 1892, No. 9 (from February 27, 1892), p. 99f.
  • Eduard Wiebe: Project: Infrastructure. Autobiographical notes by the Prussian engineer Eduard Wiebe (1804–92) . Ed .: Sven K. Knebel. Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88309-385-7 .
  • Michael Werling : Architecture teacher at Cologne University of Applied Sciences Part I / The alumni . Published on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the department or faculty for architecture at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Cologne 2006, p. 207 ff.
  • Wiebe . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 16, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 592.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ From the Düsseldorf-Elberfelder to the DB AG
  2. ↑ record to Veit Meyer www.luise-berlin.de
  3. ↑ Shahrooz Mohajeri: 100 Years of Berlin Water Supply and Wastewater Disposal 1840-1940. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-515-08541-6 , preview in the Google book search
  4. ↑ Ehrenbürgerschaft , in the Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 46, November 15, 1884, p. 481, accessed on January 2, 2013.
  5. ↑ Eightieth birthday , in the Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 42, October 18, 1884, p. 432, accessed on January 1, 2013.
  6. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 758.
  7. ↑ Moabiter Street Lexicon
personal data
SURNAME Wiebe, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiebe, Friedrich Eduard Salomon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and railway engineer, Prussian construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Stables
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1892
Place of death Berlin