Hermann Bucking
Johann Hermann Bücking (born March 9, 1848 in Cölbe near Marburg ; † December 21, 1926 in Bremen ) was a German civil engineering engineer and chief construction director in Bremen.
biography
Bücking was the son of the bridge engineer Adam Ludwig Bücking and his wife Gertrude, née Ruckert. After attending the secondary school in Kassel, he completed the Polytechnic School in Kassel by 1866 . At first he worked as a railway technician; from 1871 he was in charge of expansion work on the Elbe. From 1872 he studied in Berlin and in 1874 he graduated as a civil engineer. He worked as a railway engineer in Königsberg in East Prussia and in Bromberg in West Prussia .
In 1876 he became a building inspector at the civil engineering administration in Bremen under the leadership of Ludwig Franzius . He headed the road construction department. From 1883 he was dike construction inspector, was responsible for the buildings in the Bremen countryside and in the weather association . He acquired a patent for screw anchors for anchoring bank protection structures. In 1886 he became Franzius's assistant in the Weser correction . From 1895 he was the head of the building inspection for the Lower Weser Correction and then also for the Outer Weser.
In 1903 he followed Franzius into the office of chief building director, as the highest building official in Bremen. During this time, the ports in Bremen and Bremerhaven were further expanded. The old Weser weir was built from 1906 to 1911 . The Speicher XI in the Überseestadt of Bremen was built from 1908 to 1912 under his direction according to plans by Eduard Suling and Nause. In 1915 Bücking retired; Suling followed him in office.
From 1891 to 1907 Bücking was chairman of the architects and engineers association in Bremen .
He had been married to Emilie Christine Charlotte, nee Pöschel, since October 6, 1875. The couple had two sons, the later doctor Kurt Ludwig Hermann Bücking (* 1878) and Ernst Julius Berthold Bücking (* 1880); his daughter Else Gertrude Charlotte Bücking (* 1876) was a school friend of the later painter Paula Modersohn-Becker . The family lived on Schönhaussenstrasse in Bremen at the time. In 1900 the daughter Else married the architect Hugo Wagner . In 1907 the Bücking house in Bremen - Schwachhausen , Brahmsstraße 5 , was built according to plans by Wagner .
Honors
The Bückingstrasse in the port area near the commercial ports of Bremen was named after him in 1927.
literature
- Hermann Bücking †. In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers , Volume 71, No. 11 (March 12, 1927), p. 350.
- Ludwig Plate : Bücking, Hermann. In: Historical Society Bremen, State Archive Bremen (Ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 78 (column 2) to p. 80 (column 1).
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bucking, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bucking, Johann Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil engineering engineer and senior construction director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cölbe |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1926 |
| Place of death | Bremen |