Ernst Häseler

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Ernst Häseler (born May 25, 1844 in Sankt Andreasberg , † April 3, 1911 in Braunschweig ) was a German civil engineer and professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig .

Life

Ernst Häseler was born in Sankt Andreasberg in the Upper Harz in 1844 as the son of a pastor. He attended the Andreanum grammar school in Hildesheim and then studied civil engineering at the Hanover Polytechnic from 1860 . Conrad Wilhelm Hase was one of his teachers . In 1865 he passed the state examination in construction.

The Elbe bridge near Niederwartha with the paddle steamer Pirna , 1906

He subsequently worked for various railway companies, from 1865 to 1867 as an engineer assistant at the Hanover State Railway and from 1867 to 1868 as an engineer at the Venlo-Hamburg Railway Company . In 1870 he passed the Prussian master builder examination. He then worked from 1870 to 1873 in the Berlin central office of the Berlin-Hamburg Railway Company . He was in charge of the design work for the Wittenberge – Buchholz railway line . Häseler designed the iron superstructure of the Dömitz Elbe bridge (destroyed in April 1945). From 1873 to 1875 Häseler was an engineer at the Berlin-Dresden Railway Company , for which he designed the Elbe bridge near Niederwartha , which was blown up in May 1945 .

In 1875, Häseler accepted a call as a full professor for bridge and railroad construction at the Braunschweig Polytechnic ( technical college since 1878 ). Between 1875 and 1906 he was head of the civil engineering department at the TH Braunschweig for many years, with interruptions of several years. In Braunschweig he designed the iron pedestrian bridge between Löwenwall and Ottmerstraße, which is now Kurt-Schumacher-Straße , which was demolished in 1959 . The Leonhardstrasse bridge, also built in 1884/85, is one of his designs . Several study trips took Häseler to England, France and the USA. He was the Braunschweig representative at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago .

He was a member of Architects and Engineers Club Hannover and Club engineer Braunschweig architects and whose honorary chairman he became the 1907th In 1897 Häseler was appointed Privy Councilor .

Häseler lived in Braunschweig at Adolfstrasse 64. He died in April 1911 at the age of 66 in Braunschweig.

Fonts (selection)

  • Part I: The Iron Bridges. A manual for use in designing iron bridges , Friedrich Vieweg and Son, Braunschweig 1888. ( digitized version )
  • The mine in Rammelsberg near Goslar , Harzburg 1888.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Braunschweig address book for the year 1896 . Entry: Häseler, Ernst, Professor at the Herzogl. techn. University, Adolfstr. 64 .