Friedrich Grund (hydraulic engineer)

Franz Friedrich Alexander Grund (born May 5, 1814 in Heinrichau , Frankenstein district , province of Silesia , † May 16, 1892 in Berlin ) was a German hydraulic engineer .

Life

education

Friedrich Grund, son of a judicial councilor and court chancellor, learned the art of turnery alongside high school lessons in Breslau . He attended the arts and crafts school in Breslau, where he passed the surveyor's examination in 1836 . After practical work, he passed the final examination at the General Building School in 1841.

Working life

The hydraulic engineer Gotthilf Hagen gave Grund the first job in hydraulic engineering on the Moselle . After building a roadway in the Siegtal , under Friedrich August Stüler , he was entrusted with the management of work on the residential palace in Koblenz , where he also designed and executed larger private buildings. Due to his achievements and having passed the state examination as a land and hydraulic engineering inspector in 1844 , Grund was commissioned with the expansion of the Altenberg Abbey in the Bergisches Land until 1847 , after which he took over the construction management for the port construction of the city of Cologne . In 1850 he was appointed hydraulic engineer in Cochem and in 1854 he was subordinate to the high president as hydraulic engineering inspector and acting engineer for the improvement work in the Rhine province . He carried out the amelioration of the Niers and drafted corresponding plans for the Erft . In 1856, Grund became State Improvement Building Inspector for the Rhine Province in Düsseldorf, while he was also working on the Wupper regulatory plan for the cities of Barmen and Elberfeld .

In 1860 he was promoted to government and building advisor to the government in Stettin , where he mainly carried out the widening of the Oder below Stettin and was entrusted with canal plans for Pomerania . After only two years he was promoted to the secret building council and lecturing council in the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Public Works. Here Grund was subject to all water and road construction in the Rhine Province, Westphalia and Sigmaringen , and later also Hesse-Nassau . Another important work was the revision of a design for the river canalization of the Upper Saar ; At the same time, he was in charge of the commissioner's office for the Saargemünd - Güdingen route to be carried out jointly with France .

From 1866 to 1873 Grund was also director of the Berlin Building Academy , a forerunner of what would later become the Technical University . In addition, in 1869 he became commissioner for the border regulation between Prussia and Oldenburg along the lower Weser and in 1870 wrote a memorandum on the waterways and canals in Alsace-Lorraine . He played a leading role in the design of the Rhine-Maas Canal and in the construction of the Ruhrort port, the Oberlahnstein port and the Emmerich security port . After 1873 he was also given the report on the Berlin Building Academy, and at times even on the details of the building authority candidates. Reason was a member of numerous official commissions, for example the one for the regulation of the Emscher lowland and the one for the investigation of the Rhine current conditions, as well as a member of the technical examination office and since 1880 member of the Academy of Building in Berlin. In 1887, Grund retired for health reasons.

Friedrich Grund died in Berlin in May 1892, just eleven days after his 78th birthday. He was buried in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Schöneberg near Berlin. The grave has not been preserved.

Through his varied activities and extensive experience, Grund laid the foundation for the later scientific "agricultural hydraulic engineering", from which, for the most part, today's water management , in addition to the parts of settlement and hydropower , developed.

Web links

• Walter Sbrzesny: Friedrich Grund in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 7 (1966), p. 219 [online version]; URL: German biography

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 752.