Ernst Dircksen

Dircksen Memorial Berlin 1902 (destroyed)

Dircksenstrasse in what was then East Berlin, 1961

Ernst Dircksen (born May 31, 1831 in Danzig , † May 11, 1899 in Erfurt ; full name: Ernst August Dircksen ) was a German civil engineer .

Life

Ernst Dircksen studied engineering at the Bauakademie in Berlin . In 1867 he became works inspector in Upper Silesia . His specialty was the construction of railway lines and railway bridges.

On July 15, 1878, the Royal Directorate of the Berlin City Railroad entrusted him with the construction management of the newly planned Berlin Stadtbahn . On April 1, 1883, Dircksen was transferred to the Royal Railway Directorate in Cologne on the left bank of the Rhine as a department head, while at the same time being appointed chief building officer, in order to manage the railway facilities to be implemented in their service area and, in particular, to promote the expansion of Cologne's railway infrastructure. In the same position, he was transferred to the Erfurt Railway Directorate in November 1890 .

At the station Berlin Friedrichstrasse Dirksen was built by his students and colleagues in 1902 a monument with a bronze bust. Its creator was the sculptor Ludwig Brunow . The monument no longer exists today.

In Berlin-Mitte , the street between Hackescher Markt and Jannowitzbrücke running parallel to the tram he planned is named after him.

His youngest son was the civil engineer Friedrich Dircksen (1874–1907).

plant

1853–1855: Employee in the construction of the new Dirschau bridge over the Vistula

1855–1856: Employee in the construction of the cathedral bridge over the Rhine in Cologne

Construction of the first train station in Frankfurt (Oder)

1867–1870: Construction of the Berlin connecting line (first section of the Berlin ring line )

1870–1874: various new buildings in the district of the Elberfeld Railway Directorate

1870/1871: Construction of the railway from Rémilly to Pont-à-Mousson (on the Moselle in occupied Lorraine )

1874–1882: Project planning and construction of the Berlin light rail

1883–1890: Expansion of the Cologne railway system

from 1890: various new buildings in the district of the Erfurt Railway Directorate

literature

Peter Bock: Ernst Dircksen - builder of the Berlin light rail. In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter , 34th volume, issue 2 (March / April 2007), pp. 47–48.
Erwin Massute: Dircksen, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 739 ( digitized version ).
Richard Sier: Germany's spiritual heroes. Monuments of honor for our outstanding leaders in the spiritual field in words and pictures . VA Universum, Berlin 1904.

Individual evidence

^ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 19th year 1899, No. 38 (from May 17, 1899), p. 230 (obituary).
^ The Dircksen memorial at Friedrichstrasse train station in Berlin . In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , Volume 53 (1903), Sp. 1–4, Plate 1. Digital copy in the holdings of the Central and State Library in Berlin .
↑ Dircksenstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )

personal data
SURNAME	Dircksen, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 31, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH	Danzig
DATE OF DEATH	May 11, 1899
Place of death	Erfurt

[1] Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 19th year 1899, No. 38 (from May 17, 1899), p. 230 (obituary).

[2] The Dircksen memorial at Friedrichstrasse train station in Berlin . In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , Volume 53 (1903), Sp. 1–4, Plate 1. Digital copy in the holdings of the Central and State Library in Berlin .

[3] Dircksenstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )