Emil May

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Emil May (* December 24, 1850 in Gniefkau near Neumarkt in Silesia ; † September 9, 1933 in Breslau ) was a hydraulic engineering inspector and a government and building councilor.

Life

Emil May was the son of a manor owner. During his studies at the Bauakademie, he became a member of the Palaio-Silesia Berlin Landsmannschaft . After completing his studies, he began his career in the Prussian civil service in Thorn . Then he was promoted to the building and government councilor in Wroclaw and later transferred to Bromberg , where he took over the management of the expansion of the Oder - Vistula waterway . In 1915 he was appointed Senior and Secret Building Councilor. After the First World War he worked as a handover commissioner. In 1919 he went to the Oder electricity construction administration in Breslau and retired in 1921.

literature

Werner May, Tamed Electricity - Mosaic of a Life , 1967

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 361.
  2. Werner May, Tamed Electricity - Mosaic of a Life , 1967, foreword