Ernst Mackensen (civil engineer)
Ernst Mackensen , full name Friedrich Anton Ernst Mackensen , (born September 6, 1840 in Gandersheim , † July 31, 1909 in Constantinople - Pera ) was a German civil engineer , Prussian construction clerk and private railway manager .
Life
Ernst Mackensen studied at the Braunschweig Polytechnic from 1858 to 1861 . He then worked until 1865 as an engineering assistant at the Duke Brunswick Railway Administration , then at the Hanover Southern Railway . From 1868 he was involved in the construction of the Hamburg-Venloer Bahn , from 1870 for its owner, the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , in Cologne. When it was nationalized in 1881, he was accepted into the Prussian civil service and in 1882 received the title of construction and operations inspector . After initially overseeing construction projects in the area of responsibility of the Royal Railway Directorate in Cologne for many years , he was transferred to the Royal Railway Directorate in Bromberg in 1892 .
After Mackensen had already worked several times as an appraiser for private railway companies with the consent of his superiors, he was given long-term leave from 1893 to devote himself to the railway construction in the Ottoman Empire , which was supported by the German Empire and financed by German banks . First he became the technical director of the company for the construction of the railway Eskischehir - Konia mbH , where he worked repeatedly with the building contractor Philipp Holzmann . The construction work, successfully completed in 1896, earned him two Ottoman medals. This was followed by preliminary planning work for the Baghdad Railway and other railway projects. Since there was no end in sight for his activity in the Ottoman Empire, he resigned from the Prussian civil service in the summer of 1901 at his own request.
Varia
His work earned Mackensen Prussian titles ( Privy Building Council ) and medals ( Crown Order III. Class), but also other Ottoman awards.
1907 also awarded him the Technical University of Dresden , the honorary doctorate as Dr.-Ing.
Literature / web links
- Regine Blume: Ernst Mackensen. In: Reinhard Bein (Ed.): Braunschweiger personalities of the 20th century. Volume 3, döringDRUCK, Braunschweig 2015, ISBN 978-3-925268-53-3 , pp. 168-173.
- Gustav Kemmann: Secret building officer Ernst Mackensen †. Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 29, 1909, No. 68, p. 449, August 25, 1909, accessed on September 13, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
- ↑ Manfred Pohl : Philipp Holzmann. History of a construction company 1849–1999. C. H. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-45339-2 , pp. 83–86, p. 100. ( online at Google books )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mackensen, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mackensen, Friedrich Anton Ernst (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil engineer and business manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gandersheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 1909 |
| Place of death | Constantinople - Pera |