Hermann Mathies

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Hermann Mathies

Hermann Mathies (born August 10, 1852 in Fischhausen , East Prussia , † September 21, 1927 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German hydraulic engineer and construction clerk in the Prussian service as well as parliamentarian and manager in the private coal and steel industry.

Life

Mathies studied architecture at the Albertus University in Königsberg and became a member of the Corps Baltia in 1872 . After completing his studies, he began his legal clerkship as a government building manager in the state building administration in 1876 and worked in the technical office of Department III of the Prussian Ministry of Public Works from 1882 to 1885 as well as 1887 and 1888 . In 1882 he was appointed government builder ( Assessor ). From 1885 to 1887 he was also a lecturer in hydraulic engineering at the Technical University of Hanover and in 1888 he was appointed as a member of the ministerial building commission for sewerage on the Unterspree .

In 1890 Mathies was appointed hydraulic engineering inspector and employed as structural engineering attaché at the German embassy in Paris . In March 1891, however, the ambassador demanded his removal because of “presumptuous behavior”, which is why Mathies was recalled on July 1, 1891. Then in 1891 he became head of the Dortmund construction department for the construction of the Dortmund-Ems Canal . In 1898 Mathies was promoted to government and building councilor and appointed head of technical administration for the port of Dortmund . On December 1, 1900 he was transferred to the government in Koblenz and in 1901 to the Berlin police headquarters. But Mathies soon returned to Dortmund and from 1902 to 1910 was General Director of Union, AG for mining, iron and steel industry , and from 1903 a member of the supervisory board of Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG . Characterized as a secret building officer since 1911 , he returned to the Prussian Ministry for Public Works . As a captain in the Landwehr , he was deployed as station commander in Wittenberge at the beginning of the First World War . After the command was dissolved in October 1914, he traveled to the Western Front ; he visited the German military command in Laon . He retired in Berlin.

Mathies sat in the Prussian House of Representatives from 1913 to 1918 as a member of the Düsseldorf 15 constituency (Mülheim district, Dinslaken district, Hamborn district) . He belonged to the faction of the National Liberal Party .

Honors

Fonts

  • (as editor): The port of Dortmund. Memorandum to celebrate the inauguration of the port on August 11, 1899. FW Ruhfus, Dortmund 1899. ( digitized version )

See also

literature

  • Willibald Reichertz: East Germans as lecturers at the Technical University of Hanover (1831–1956) . In: East German family studies . tape 55 , 2007, p. 109-120 .
  • Bernhard Mann : Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918 (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 264.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 137/127.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The history of the Corps Baltia II zu Königsberg i. Pr. , Vol. 2, Munich 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Mathies, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mathies, Hermann Adalbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hydraulic engineer, Prussian construction officer, parliamentarian, industry manager
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Fischhausen , Samland
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1927
Place of death Berlin-Charlottenburg