Fritz Beermann

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Fritz Beermann (born November 10, 1856 in Schweringen ; died July 30, 1928 in Cologne ) was a German civil engineer and railway construction officer .

Origin and professional career

Fritz Beermann came from a Jewish family that had lived in Schweringen since 1828. He attended the secondary school in Hanover , from which he graduated with the certificate of maturity . His father had already died when he enrolled at the Polytechnic School in Hanover in 1875, after the previous Bau Eleven year, to study civil engineering with a focus on railway construction. He ended his university visit with the academic year 1878/79. His guardian lived in Neustadt am Rübenberge at the time . In May 1880 Beermann passed the construction manager examination (1st state examination ) for the civil engineering subject before the technical examination commission . After several years of practical work, he passed the 2nd state examination in May 1885, whereupon he was appointed government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration). During the following years, Beermann was employed, among other things, in the area of ​​the Royal Railway Directorate Elberfeld at the Hagen Works Office to assist the railway construction inspector Gustav Heinrich Glasewald (1844–1903) with the construction of the buildings along the new line from Bruges (Westphalia) to Dieringhausen (1888 –1893). Glasewald's last design work before his transfer to Danzig in September 1893 concerned high-rise buildings in the area of ​​the Kassel Railway Directorate , to which Beermann himself was apparently subsequently transferred. His only child was born there in 1896. In June 1897, Fritz Beermann was working in Kupferdreh when he received his appointment as railway construction and operations inspector . In April 1899 he was transferred to Dortmund to manage the reconstruction of the station there . Four years later he took over the Lennep Railway Operations Inspection as a member of the board . The railway management in Cologne called at that time numerous qualified personnel for the peripheral expansion of the Cologne railway installations. The expansion of the railway ring with the replacement of the old cathedral bridge by the Hohenzollern bridge and the Neuau of the south bridge required many specialists. This also resulted in Beermann's transfer to Cologne as a member of the railway management. Two months after this change, he was appointed government and building councilor .

With regard to the distribution of tasks, especially in the design and execution of the two Cologne bridge projects, there are varying representations. While Beermann is also credited with the ongoing management due to his own publication Die Rheinbrücken bei Cöln , the author of an obituary for Friedrich Dircksen wrote : “In November 1905 he was called to Cologne to take over the design work and the construction of the large new bridges. Unfortunately, he was not allowed to complete the great work. ”Furthermore, an obituary for Gustav Schimpff , who later became professor of railway engineering at the Technical University of Aachen :“ He was in charge from 1907 to 1909 entrusted to the construction of the Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne. "

After his service rank within the Cologne Railway Directorate, Beermann was the superior of Dircksen and Schimpff, from which his professional supervision results. In this function, Beermann also had a close exchange of ideas with the Cologne-born architect Franz Heinrich Schwechten , who had been commissioned with the designs for the stone components (bridge piers and towers). In addition to numerous others involved in the construction, Fritz Beermann was honored by the highest authority with the inauguration of the Hohenzollern Bridge in May 1911, and was awarded the Red Eagle Order IV class. As a further distinction, the king gave him the character of a secret building officer in May 1915 .

On reaching the age limit , Beermann was retired on April 1, 1923 as a senior government and building officer at the Reich Railway Directorate in Cologne.

family

Fritz Beermann spent the last five years of his life together with his wife Elise Rosalie Beermann, née Hirsch (born January 22, 1870 in Kassel; died February 25, 1943 in Theresienstadt ) in Cologne. His widow was with the transport from 15./16. Deported to Theresienstadt in June 1942 and died there. The only daughter, the pianist Carola Henriette Ottilie Beermann (born October 5, 1896 in Kassel; died May 10, 1942 in Kulmhof) had already been deported to Litzmannstadt on October 21, 1941 , where she died in the Kulmhof extermination camp .

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Buildings and designs

  • Dortmund Central Station

  • Hohenzollern Bridge Cologne

  • Western driveway of the Hohenzollern Bridge (1930)

  • Collapse of the south bridge on July 9, 1908

Fonts

  • The new Rhine bridges near Cologne. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 28, 1908, No. 57 (from July 18, 1908), pp. 386–388 / No. 59 (from July 25, 1908), 398–401 / No. 60 (from 29. July 1908), 406–408.
  • The accident at the Cologne south bridge. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 28, 1908, No. 63 (of August 8, 1908), pp. 430–432.
  • Demolition of the old road bridge over the Rhine near Cologne using floating scaffolding. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 29, 1909, No. 57 (July 17, 1909), pp. 381–383.
  • The Rhine bridges near Cologne. Cologne 1911.
  • From the construction of the two new Rhine bridges in Cologne. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 46, 1912, pp. 385–388, pp. 397–401 and p. 409–414.
  • Architecture and engineering aesthetics and the railway bridges over the Rhine near Cologne. In: Der Eisenbau , 11th year 1920, p. 156 f.

Literature and Sources

  • Support group for the rescue of the Wiehltalbahn eV (Hrsg.): Railways in the Oberbergischen and the history of the railway depot Dieringhausen. Martina Galunder Verlag, Nümbrecht 2005, ISBN 3-89909-050-0 .
  • A. Eggert: The Reichsbahn facilities in Cologne over the last 25 years. In: Cologne. Structural development 1888-1927. Berlin 1927. (Reprint: Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-88375-965-4 ), pp. 253-255.
  • Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne and its Jewish architects. JP Bachem, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7616-2294-0 , pp. 35-41.
  • Lothar Hammer: Cologne. The Hohenzollern Bridge and the German bridge architecture of the imperial era. JP Bachem, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7616-1300-8 .
  • Rudolf Inkeller: The Remscheid-Lennep depot. In: Bahnbetriebswerke der BD Wuppertal. Volume 2, Andrea Inkeller Verlag, Wuppertal 2009, ISBN 978-3-9809930-1-2 .
  • Herbert Mundhenke: The matriculation of the higher trade school, the polytechnic school and the technical university in Hanover. Volume 1 (1831–1881), Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1988.
  • Max Woltmann: The bridge structures. In: Cologne. Structural development 1888–1927. Berlin 1927. (Reprint: Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-88375-965-4 ), pp. 235–242.

References and comments

  1. ↑ Mundhenke, Volume 2, p. 232 No. 6438.
  2. ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 14, 1880, No. 42 (from May 26, 1880), p. 224.
  3. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 5, 1885, No. 19 (from May 9, 1885), p. 185.
  4. ^ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 17, 1897, No. 23 (from June 5, 1897), p. 254.
  5. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 19, 1899, No. 25 (from April 1, 1899), p. 145.
  6. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 23rd year 1903, No. 29 (from April 11, 1903), p. 177.
  7. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 25, 1905, No. 27 (from April 1, 1905), p. 173.
  8. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 25, 1905, No. 29 (from April 8, 1905), p. 183.
  9. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 25, 1905, No. 47 (from June 10, 1905), p. 293.
  10. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 27, 1907, No. 26 (of March 27, 1907), pp. 183–184.
  11. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 39, 1919, No. 105 (of December 27, 1919), pp. 631–632.
  12. ↑ Hagspiel, p. 39.
  13. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 31, 1911, No. 43 (from May 27, 1911), p. 265.
  14. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 35th year 1915, No. 26 (from May 8, 1915), p. 241.
  15. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 43, 1923, No. 27/28 (from April 4, 1923), p. 168.
  16. ^ The Jewish Victims of National Socialism from Cologne | by place of death . NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne. Retrieved July 2, 2018
  17. ↑ Hagspiel, p. 35.
  18. ↑ Statistical evidence regarding the buildings of the Prussian State Railway Administration completed in 1892. In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , 45th year 1895, pp. 48–49.
  19. ↑ Förderkreis 2005, p. 63.
personal data
SURNAME Beermann, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beermann, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and railway construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweringen
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1928
Place of death Cologne