Heinrich Berger (engineer)

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Johann Heinrich Berger (born February 3, 1860 in Cassel , † 1927 in Berlin-Schöneberg ) was a German civil engineer .

Education and professional career

Heinrich Berger attended the secondary school in Kassel and studied from 1878 to 1882 at the technical universities in Karlsruhe and Berlin . In Karlsruhe he became a member of the Teutonia fraternity . He then worked in the sewer system : From 1883 to 1888, Berger worked for the city ​​administrations of Hamburg , Altona and Kassel . In the time after that he worked for the cities of Cologne and Mannheim . From 1901 Berger worked for the city of Berlin-Schöneberg until he retired on July 1, 1924. Berger was a senior building officer .

Honors

Berger has created extensive general and special sewer systems and implemented them. He received a number of prizes for his buildings, including the first prize in 1893 for the sewage treatment plant in Leipzig , in 1895 the second prize for the sewer system from Temesvár and from Pola in 1898. He also received the third prize for the sewer system from Truppan in 1898.

swell

  • H. Hahn and F. Langbein: Fifty Years of Urban Drainage in Berlin 1878–1928, 1928.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Kirschner: Directory of Members of the Karlsruhe Burschenschaft Teutonia , 1966.