Hermann Oberbeck

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Hermann Julius Albert Emil Oberbeck (born October 5, 1833 in Magdeburg ; † May 21, 1894 in Weimar ) was a German architect , master railroad builder and university professor .

Life

Hermann Oberbeck graduated from high school in 1852 at the “Our Dear Women” monastery in Magdeburg. Then he was Baueleve in Saarbrücken and Schneidemühl, including with his older brother, who was a building inspector at the Ostbahn . From 1853 to 1855 he studied at the Berlin Building Academy with a final building manager examination . He then worked for the Deutz-Gießener Eisenbahn , studied again at the building academy from 1857 to 1859 and passed the master builder examination in December 1861 . He initially had a job at the Ostbahn, then at the Magdeburg-Halberstädter Railway Company . There he was a departmental builder in Halberstadt . In 1866, shortly after he was married, he did military service. From May 1868 he was a railway builder at the management of the Upper Silesian Railway in Breslau . In 1870 he again did brief military service and in May 1871 became a railway construction inspector. On March 12, 1872, he came to the technical office in the Ministry of Commerce and on March 1, 1874, he became a building officer and technical member of the Royal Railway Commissioner in Berlin. In May of the same year he was appointed government and building councilor. On May 15, 1875 he was appointed a technical member of the Royal Railway Directorate in Hanover, but a short time later, on December 29, 1875, he became a secret building officer and lecturer in the Ministry of Public Works , responsible for structural and operational matters of the Lines of the Royal Railway Directorate Berlin . Soon after, he became a member of the Royal Technical Supervision Department , then the resulting Royal Technical Supreme Examination Office and first chairman of the Royal Technical Examination Office. On July 5, 1880, he was promoted to the secret senior building officer. On October 19, 1892, he became the Imperial Privy Councilor , conductor in the Reich Office for the Administration of the Reich Railways. He fell ill in early 1893 and retired on April 1, 1894.

Teaching

  • From 1872 to 1875 he taught the subject of railway construction at the Bauakademie .
  • From 1882 he was also a lecturer at the University of Berlin .

buildings

In addition to his extensive administrative and teaching activities, he was involved in the design and construction of the following railway structures:

Honors

  • Awarded the Order of the Red Eagle , IV., III. and II. class
  • Award of the star for the Order of the Red Eagle, Class II (1894)

literature

  • Jungnickel: Hermann Oberbeck † . In: Ministry of Public Works (Ed.): Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . XIV. Year, no. 21 . Ernst & Sohn, Berlin May 26, 1894, p. 216, 217 . Digitized
  • Uwe Kieling: Berlin private architect and master railroad builder in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1988, p. 51, 52 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Secret Oberregierungsrath Oberbeck † . In: Association of German Railway Administrations (ed.): Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations . tape 34 . Berlin May 26, 1894, p. 377 .
  2. ↑ Hermann Oberbeck. In: Catalogus Professorum. TU Berlin, accessed on May 16, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Oberbeck, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oberbeck, Hermann Julius Albert Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and master railroad builder
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1894
Place of death Weimar