Gustav Schimpff

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Gustav Schimpff (born September 24, 1871 in Berlin , † November 20, 1919 in Aachen ) was a German railway civil engineer and professor at the Technical University of Aachen .

Career

Gustav Schimpff grew up as the son of a businessman not far from the Warsaw Bridge, which was completed in 1875, on the railway line from Berlin to Frankfurt (Oder) . The fascination of the extensive railway area shaped his further development as a child, and he began to model its facilities. After attending the Leibniz Gymnasium in Berlin and a year as a construction trainee building the Coburg-Rodach branch line , he began studying railroad engineering at the Technical University of Charlottenburg in 1891 . There he passed the first state examination in 1896 and the second with distinction in 1899 and was subsequently appointed royal government master builder in the railway industry. His development of a north-south railway for Berlin was awarded the Schinkel Prize of the Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin in 1899 . He spent the period between the exams training as a government construction manager at the Royal Railway Directorate in Berlin and building the elevated electric railway there; part-time he was assistant to Adolf Goering at his chair for station systems and railway construction at the Technical University of Charlottenburg.

After his appointment as government builder, Gustav Schimpff found great opportunities for development when he took over the state railway service in the Prussian Ministry of Public Works in the Altona district . During his service there, he made designs for larger train stations and worked on the electrification of the Hamburg city railway from Blankenese to Ohlsdorf , which went into operation on January 29, 1908. At the beginning of 1906 he was promoted to railway construction and operations inspector in Altona. During this time, Schimpff married a daughter of his superior at the time, senior building officer and secret building officer Rudolf Otto Caesar .

After the early death of government master builder Fritz Dircksen in March 1907, Schimpff was then called to Cologne to take over the construction management of the Hohenzollern Bridge . In April 1909, he was transferred to the 7th Railroad Operations Office in Berlin, Potsdamer Bahnhof . However, he had to give up this position after six months due to an eye problem and moved to the Central Railway Office . In 1911, Schimpff was appointed to the Technical University of Aachen to take up the chair for railway engineering there, succeeding Ludwig Bräuler . Gustav Schimpff died as a full professor in Aachen in 1919 after a brief illness.

Schimpff also went on study trips. The trip associated with the Schinkel Prize took him to studies in North America , the results of which he published in 1903. While working in Altona, he went on study trips to Switzerland and Northern Italy "to expand his knowledge of the field of electrical train transport".

Act

In addition to his practical work, Gustav Schimpff also made an early public appearance. From his time in Aachen, the collaboration on the Encyclopedia of the Railway System edited by Victor von Röll should be mentioned in particular . In addition, he was also asked to act as an appraiser and referee, with a particular interest in the (electrified) expansion of urban and suburban railways, as well as issues relating to urban development.

Together with his friend Wilhelm Kübler , Schimpff also won prizes in two competitions (relating to a tram in Freiburg im Breisgau and the improvement of operations on the Wannseebahn ).

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Fonts

  • The tram in the United States of America. Julius Springer, Berlin 1903.

buildings

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ N. Grohnert: Gustav Schimpff † . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 39th year 1919, No. 105 (from December 27, 1919), p. 632.
personal data
SURNAME Schimpff, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German railway civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1919
Place of death Aachen