Friedrich Müller (building officer)

Friedrich Gottfried Hubert Maria Müller (born October 20, 1855 in Emmerich ; † September 2, 1914 in Steglitz ) was a royal building officer and professor.

Life

Friedrich Müller was the son of the builder Heinrich Müller and his wife Maria Anna, née Thelen-Petazzi, who both died in Deutz. Following his father's wishes, he completed a degree in civil engineering. From October 1892 he worked as a hydraulic engineer in Wesel. On October 3 of the same year he married Auguste von Gember, with whom he had six children and who died in 1952.

In 1893 Müller moved to the Prussian Ministry of Public Works. From March 1898 to 1902 he worked at the Husum waterworks department on Pellworm . He then worked for the Schleswig government for eight years. From the summer of 1910 he completed his studies on the Halligen in Berlin. For this scientific work he was appointed royal building officer and professor. He died before his book "Die Halligen" appeared in print.

Müller was an excellent winger who made it possible for all of his children to have music lessons on one instrument. He therefore had an extensive family orchestra.

Scientific work

Müller was very linguistically gifted and used this in his scientific work. From 1890 he dealt with studies on the water system of the Dutch province of Zeeland . The results appeared in print in 1898. Queen Wilhelmine honored him with the Order of Orange Nassau.

As part of the studies on the Netherlands, Müller became aware of the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein . On behalf of the Ministry of Public Works, Müller dealt there with the water system in North Friesland and problems such as protecting the coasts, building dykes, extracting land, lowering the coast, raising secular water levels and studying storm surges. He drew on the results of numerous sciences. These included geology , geodesy , archeology, biology , pedology , cartography , oceanography, meteorology , self-government and state administration.

Müller created the basic structure of a collection of sources on the water system on the North Sea coast of Schleswig-Holstein. In the 1970s the collection comprised 16 volumes. In addition, he brought together documents that were in many archives and offices. He assessed these sources and made public access to them possible for the first time.

literature

• Marcus Petersen: Müller, Friedrich . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 3. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1974, p. 197

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Müller in the catalog of the German National Library