Ernst August Leopold Grüttefien

Ernst August Leopold Grüttefien (born December 18, 1837 in Neuhaldensleben , † January 17, 1890 in Berlin ) was a German architect and railroad builder.

Life

Grüttefien, son of a businessman, attended the higher commercial and commercial school in Magdeburg, studied from October 1856 to December 1858 at the Berlin building academy with a degree as a construction manager and then worked practically at the Westphalian and Bergisch-Märkische railways . From 1861 he continued his studies at the building academy and graduated on August 2, 1864 with the master builder examination. As early as April 1864, he was called in as an employee by the secret senior building officer Carl Lentze , who had received the order from the Prussian government to plan the Kiel Canal . From 1865 to 1868 he was a lecturer in mathematics at the Bauakademie. From March 1866 he devoted himself exclusively to railway construction. First with the Lower Silesian-Märkische Eisenbahn until mid-1868 , then with the Bergisch-Märkische Bahn until his transfer to the railroad management in Hanover in May 1872 , after he had passed the railway builder examination in January 1872. During the war of 1870/71 he was called up as a master builder for "Field Railway Department No. 4". In Hanover he became a railway construction and operations inspector in July 1873, head of the technical office of the railway administration and in July 1876 an operational member of the administration. In January 1877 he was promoted to Government and Building Councilor and six months later to the Secret Construction Councilor and Lecturing Council in the Railway Department of the Ministry of Public Works . On September 20, 1880, he became a member of the Academy of Civil Engineering and in July 1882, a secret senior building officer. Shortly after the introduction of the technical examination office in 1886, he was also appointed to this authority. Grüttefien was married from 1864 to 1881 (his wife died) and had six children, including the landscape painter Elisabeth Grüttefien-Kiekebusch .

Honors

Red Eagle Order II Class with Oak Leaves (1888)

buildings

• 1867–1869: Platform hall of the Schlesisches Bahnhof in Berlin, together with Wilhelm Schwedler
• 1876–1879: New construction of the train station in Hanover , together with Hubert Stier

and participation in the construction of train stations in Hamburg , Bremen , Osnabrück , Kreiensen , Northeim , Göttingen , Uelzen , Frankfurt / M , Hildesheim , Halle and others

literature

• Uwe Kieling: Berlin private architect and master railroad builder in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1988, p. 25 .

• Secret Oberbaurath Grüttefien † . In: Ministry of Public Works (Hrsg.): Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung . Volume X. Ernst & Korn, 1890, p. 29, 30 . Digitized