Emil Dietrich (civil engineer)

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Emil Dietrich (born December 13, 1844 in Stettin ; † September 26, 1912 in Misdroy ) was a German civil engineer , construction clerk and professor at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg .

Life and accomplishments

Dietrich was born in Stettin in 1844 and attended high school there. He studied at the Berlin Building Academy , where he passed the first state examination in 1867. Dietrich then initially worked as a site manager for the construction of the Berlin-Lehrter Railway . In 1873 he passed the master builder examination and became a member of the ministerial building commission in Berlin, where he was mainly responsible for hydraulic engineering. Since 1875 he taught in a secondary occupation at the Berlin Academy of Architecture.

In 1882 Dietrich was appointed full professor at the Technical University of Berlin , founded in 1879 , and taught there until 1904. He wrote several standard works on road construction, including on building materials for stone roads (1885).

Emil Dietrich went on numerous trips abroad, but also spent a lot of time in his holiday home in Miedzyzdroje in his Pomeranian homeland. He died there in 1912 at the age of 67. Dietrich was buried in Berlin, in Cemetery II of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . The grave is preserved.

Fonts (selection)

  • The extension of the Landwehr Canal . Berlin 1875.
  • Travel sketches, collected on a study trip to North America via England on the occasion of the Philadelphia Exhibition in the summer of 1876 on behalf of Sr. Excellency of the Secretary of Commerce . Berlin 1879. ( Online )
  • The asphalt roads. Berlin 1882. ( Online )
  • The building materials of the stone roads. Berlin 1885. ( Online )
  • Superstructure and equipment of the narrow-gauge railways in the service of industry and construction, agriculture and forestry. Berlin 1889.
  • About elevated and suspension railways . Berlin 1895.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung . No. 40, October 7, 1882, p. 366. ( Online ).
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 231.
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer, construction officer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1912
Place of death Miedzyzdroje