Heinrich Schwieger (civil engineer)

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Heinrich Schwieger around 1910
In 1902 a group of officers posed in the construction site of the Knie train station , among them Heinrich Schwieger, dressed in a frock coat and top hat

Heinrich Schwieger (born May 12, 1846 in Quedlinburg , † September 16, 1911 in Wiesbaden ; full name Carl Theodor Heinrich Schwieger ) was a German civil engineer who held managerial positions in the Siemens group for almost 27 years .

Life

Schwieger was the son of the postman Heinrich Schwieger and Bertha Schwieger, nee Weißhaupt. The family lived in Quedlinburg at 263 Breite Straße . He studied from 1866 to 1869 at the Royal Building Academy in Berlin . In 1870 he passed the first state examination as a government building supervisor and on June 22, 1875 the second as a government building master.

Schwieger found his first job at the time of the great rail nationalization in the Prussian State Railway Administration . Here he was employed as a departmental builder and head of the construction office of the Berlin Stadtbahn under Privy Councilor Ernst Dircksen . After the completion of the Stadtbahn, he was in charge of the reconstruction of Cologne Central Station .

When Werner von Siemens approached Dircksen in 1884 about the drafts of the planned elevated railways in Berlin and Vienna , he recommended Heinrich Schwieger. Schwieger was given a leave of absence to work at Siemens and started working for Siemens & Halske at the beginning of 1885 . He was given the management of the department for electric railways and the initial leave of absence developed into a permanent employment relationship. Schwieger played a decisive role in all of Siemens & Halske's rail projects over the following decades. The most important projects here were the following:

From 1896 to 1910 Schwieger was a member of the executive board of Siemens & Halske AG. Schwieger sat on the supervisory board of the Hochbahngesellschaft from its foundation in 1898 until he left working life in 1910.

In 1909 Schwieger set up a foundation with a capital of 250,000 marks, from the interest of which employees with low salaries were given grants “for the purpose of recreation or for a study trip while on vacation”.

In 1911, at the age of 66, Schwieger died of a heart attack . He was not married but left an adopted daughter.

Awards

On the day of the opening ceremony of the Berlin elevated and underground railway, February 15, 1902, Schwieger was awarded the Crown Order III. Class awarded. The Technical University of Charlottenburg awarded Schwieger an honorary doctorate in engineering on March 9, 1906 "in recognition of his outstanding services to the development of urban inland and suburban traffic". In 1907, Schwieger was awarded the silver medal for services to the building industry by the Minister of Public Works . In 1908, on the occasion of the opening of the subway to Westend , he was appointed a secret building officer in April . The Academy of Construction finally awarded him the gold medal of merit in 1909.

Commemoration

Memorial plaque in the Nollendorfplatz underground station

In-law is commemorated on two memorial plaques in the area of ​​the Berlin subway. One is on the southern mezzanine floor of the Klosterstrasse underground station . A total of 16 supporters of underground railway construction are thought of here. The other memorial plaque is in the reception building of the Nollendorfplatz underground station . Werner von Siemens, Wilhelm von Siemens and Schwieger are remembered here.

In 1931 a new street in Berlin-Siemensstadt was named after Heinrich Schwieger Schwiegersteig.

literature

  • Gustav Kemmann : Heinrich Schwieger † . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 31, No. 80 (October 4, 1911), pp. 493–494.
  • Max Dietrich: Obituary Dr.-Ing. In-law † . In: Deutsche Straßen- und Kleinbahn-Zeitung , Volume 24, No. 40 (October 7, 1911), pp. 735–736.
  • Heinrich Schwieger † . In: Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift (ETZ), Volume 32, Issue 42, October 19, 1911, p. 1066.

Individual evidence

  1. Population register of the city of Quedlinburg from 1849
  2. a b c ETZ 1911
  3. CEO Siemens & Halske (PDF; 20 kB) Siemens AG
  4. ^ Annual reports of the Hochbahngesellschaft
  5. a b Kemmann 1911
  6. The grand opening of the elevated railway . In: Berlin Intelligence Journal of February 15, 1902.
  7. Awards. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 26, No. 25 (March 24, 1906), p. 164.
  8. Official notices . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 27, No. 11, February 2, 1907, p. 73.
  9. Official notices . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 28, No. 27, April 4, 1908, p. 193.
  10. ^ Public meeting of the Academy of Civil Engineering. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 29, No. 25, March 27, 1909, pp. 169–171.
  11. Schwiegersteig. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )