Friedrich Romberg (engineer, 1846)

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Portrait of Friedrich Romberg around 1908

Friedrich Romberg (born March 5, 1846 in Duisburg , † July 29, 1919 in Bad Bertrich ) was a German engineer and, among other things, head of the building trade school in Cologne .

Life

Friedrich Romberg studied mechanical engineering at the industrial academy in Berlin from 1865 to 1868 after a theoretical and practical training . After graduating, he tried to work as an engineer, but failed due to a long-term illness. From 1870 to 1875 he was able to work as a teacher at the municipal building school in Idstein . Then he was at the Kgl until 1880 . Provincial trade school in Cologne responsible for the subjects mathematics , descriptive geometry , machine science , statics and strength theory . In 1880 he was appointed director of this institution. And then until 1908 he was head of all technical colleges in Cologne, including the State Building Trade School in Cologne (one of the predecessor institutions of today's Cologne University of Applied Sciences ).

Because of his merits, he was appointed school councilor in 1904 and secret government councilor in 1907 . In 1906 he passed on his obligation to his successor, Prof. Konstantin Wille, but continued to manage the mechanical engineering school and the business development agency until 1914. After the First World War , he took over the management of the war wounded welfare department until his death.

In 1960 a street (Rombergstrasse) was named after him in Cologne-Lindenthal .

Fonts

  • The training of craft apprentices in old and new times . A warning to the newly established guilds, Cologne 1883
  • Report on the establishment , development and organization of the establishment , as well as the craftsmen's advanced training school associated with it, Cologne 1886
  • The craftsman training school . A word about the meaning, task and organization of the same. Commission report of the assembly of delegates of the Central-Gewerbe-Verein zu Düsseldorf 1885
  • Commercial college of the city of Cologne . Report on the establishment, development and organization of the establishment, as well as the craftsmen's training school associated with it. At the same time published as a commemorative publication on the occasion of the inauguration of the new school building by the director of the institution Friedrich Romberg, Cologne, 1886
  • Program of the arts and crafts school in Cöln am Rhein , Cologne 1900
  • Evidence of the need to set up additional buildings for the technical schools , Cologne 1900
  • A quarter of a century of government and city care for industrial training . Festschrift published on the occasion of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the technical college in Cologne on the Rhine and the inauguration of the new mechanical engineering school there on October 24, 1904, Cologne, 1904
  • Commemorative publication for the opening ceremony of the industrial development agency for the Rhine province of Cöln am Rhein , Cologne 1907
  • The business development agency for the Rhine Province of Cologne . At the same time report on the operating time from January 1910 to April 1913, Cologne 1913

Memberships

  • Chairman of the Association of German Trade School Men (1899–1906)
  • Member of the state trade office and the German committee for techn. Education (1905-1919)
  • Member of the Association of German Engineers (VDI)

literature

  • Robert Steimel: Kölner Köpfe , Cologne 1958, p. 344
  • 75 years of Cologne factory schools . Eine Chronik, 1879–1954, Cologne 1954, p. 21 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Michael Werling : Architecture teacher at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Part I / The alumni . Published on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the department or faculty for architecture at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Cologne 2006, p. 157 ff.
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Manegold: The VDI in the phase of high industrialization from 1880 to 1900 . In: Karl-Heinz Ludwig (Ed.): Technology, Engineers and Society - History of the Association of German Engineers 1856–1981 . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-18-400510-0 , p. 157 .
personal data
SURNAME Romberg, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION engineer
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1919
Place of death Bad Bertrich