Hermann Rumschöttel (railway engineer)

Hermann Rumschöttel (born November 21, 1844 in Trier , † September 22, 1918 in Berlin ) was a German railway engineer and foreign contractor in Meiji - Japan .

Life

Rumschöttel was born in Trier as the son of the local district administrator and, after graduating from the Royal Trade Academy in Berlin, worked as a mechanical engineer for the Berlin light rail and the Prussian state railways . He was also later head of the mechanical engineering office of the railway management in Elberfeld. Rumschöttel worked as a royal railway workshop manager and royal building officer in Berlin and came to Japan as an engineer in 1887, where he worked for the "Kyûshû Railway". He was involved in various railway projects in Japan until 1894.

Rumschöttel was also involved in the planning of the elevated railway in Tokyo, so he proposed the construction of an elevated connection line between the Ueno station of the private " Nippon Railway " and the Shimbashi station . Later this section between Tokyo and Ueno belonged to the Tōkaidō main line . Rumschöttel returned to Germany in 1894 to work again for the Prussian State Railways. Later he became president and chairman of the Berliner Maschinenbau Aktien-Gesellschaft (BMAG) , formerly L. Schwartzkopff, president of the Central European Motor Vehicle Association and in 1903 appointed to the secret construction council.

Hermann Rumschöttel died on September 22, 1918 at the age of 73 in Berlin. He was buried in Cemetery III of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . The grave has not been preserved.

literature

• Ichiro Tsutsumi: Hermann Rumschöttel (1844–1932). In: A Short History on Training Railway Engineers in Meiji Japan. (= Japan Railway & Transport Review. ) No. 54, December 2009, ISSN  1342-7512 , p. 37 ( text online , PDF )
• Sebastian Frobenius: Matsunawa Shinta and the conflict over the introduction of the metric system in Japan. In: Japanese Studies. Volume 3/1991, ISSN  0938-6491 , pp. 73ff. ( PDF online )

Web links

• Matthias Dingjan: Tokyo Station. In: A railway station as a public space - The case of Tokyo. on openaccess.leidenuniv.nl (pp. 18–20.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Hermann Rumschöttel †. In: Glaser's annals for trade and construction. No. 996, 1918, p. 120.
2. ↑ 日本 交通 協会 鉄 道 先人 録 編 集 部: 鉄 道 先人 録 . 第 1 版 edition. 日本 停車場 株式会社 出版 事業 部, October 14, 1972, p. 406-407 (Ref .: 鉄 道 先人 録).
3. ↑ 上 村 直 己 (Naoki Kamimura): 九州 鉄 道 会 社 顧問 技師 ル ム シ ョ ッ テ ル . In: 九州 の 日 独 文化交流 人物 誌 . 熊 本 大学 , February 20, 2005, p. 44 ( online ).
4. ^ Obituary by Hermann Rumschöttel. In: Automobil-Rundschau. Vol. 17, issue 19/20, 1918, ZDB -ID 162596-2 , pp. 145f.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Report of death to Hermann Rumschöttel. In: Verkehrstechnik week and railway technology magazine. Volume 12, 1906, p. 198 ( digitized version ).
6. ↑ ^{a b} Ichiro Tsutsumi: Hermann Rumschöttel (1844–1932). In: A Short History on Training Railway Engineers in Meiji Japan. (= Japan Railway & Transport Review. ) No. 54, December 2009, ISSN  1342-7512 , p. 37 ( Text online ( memento of the original from February 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet Checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , PDF ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link accordingly Instructions and then remove this notice. )  
7. ↑ Toru Takenaka: Siemens in Japan: from the opening of the country to the First World War. F. Steiner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-515-06462-1 , p. 148 ( online in the Google book search).
8. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 245.