Ernst Wilhelm Johannes Gäbler

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Ernst Wilhelm Johannes Gäbler (born December 28, 1812 in Schönfließ near Königsberg (Neumark); † September 24, 1876 in Berlin ) was a lawyer , civil servant and entrepreneur .

Education

Ernst Scheer studied 1832-1835 at the Berlin University Law . He obtained his doctorate in law (Dr. jur.) At the University of Greifswald in 1841 .

job

• 1848: Member of the board of the “Berlin non-profit construction company”;
• 1849/50: Participation in the committee of the “Berlin Association for the Centralization of German Emigration and Colonization”.
• 1851: Change to the Ministry of Justice .
• 1852: Worked in the rank of government councilor in the Berlin police headquarters ;
• 1853: Head of department for administrative matters in the Prussian Admiralty .
• 1860: Leave of absence, then release into temporary retirement.

Building contractor

From 1872 Ernst Gäbler worked as a real estate entrepreneur in Weißensee b. Berlin .

In 1872, the land speculator Gustav Adolf Schön bought the entire Weissensee manor for 700,000 thalers from Friedrich Wilhelm Lüdersdorff , the nephew of Johann Heinrich Leberecht Pistorius . Ernst Gäbler acquired a 152- acre portion from him, 106 acres of which he used as building land for his building company. 20 houses were built southeast of the former Königschaussee, today's Berliner Allee .

The streets were given names of battle sites from the Franco-Prussian War of 1871/1872. This gave the district he built the name French Quarter . Since 1951, most of the streets have been named after composers. The area is now known as the Composers Quarter.

Development of the horse tram

Berlin type Metropol horse-drawn tram from 1885

In 1875, Ernst Gäbler founded a consortium to build a horse-drawn tram from Alexanderplatz to Weißensee. In July 1875 the consortium was granted the necessary license .

On August 5, 1876, Ernst Gäbler was a co-founder of the New Berlin Horse Railway Company . The route was built from Alexanderplatz via Königstor through Greifswalder Straße to Weißensee.

On January 1, 1877, the maiden voyage took place on this first Berlin horse-drawn tram route. The tram route from Königstor to Weißensee, which is still in use today, is therefore the oldest route of its kind in Berlin.

death

Ernst Gäbler had already fallen victim to a typhus epidemic in Berlin in the early autumn of 1876 . So he did not see the completion of the route. He was buried in the cemetery of the Jerusalem church community in front of the Hallesches Tor .