Hermann Vering

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Hermann Vering (1878)

Johann Hermann Vering (born November 4, 1846 in Ahlen , † January 6, 1922 in Hamburg ) was a German building contractor and pioneer of traffic route construction in the 19th century.

Life

Hermann Vering graduated from high school in Münster. He then moved to the Technical University of Hanover to study engineering . Here he became a member of the Corps Slesvico-Holsatia in 1869 . After participating in the Franco-German War as a volunteer , he joined the construction company C. Vering, founded by his brother Carl Hubert Vering in 1855, and has been responsible for technical management ever since. Both brothers developed one of the largest construction companies in the German Empire in a short period of time and are considered to be pioneers of German transportation infrastructure in the 19th century with construction projects at home and abroad. Vering is particularly known as a specialist in port construction from this era.

Together with his brother Carl, he achieved urban historical significance for the Elbe island of Wilhelmsburg and thus for Hamburg through the industrial development of the Reiherstieg district there . He was a member of the supervisory boards of a number of stock corporations and was a donor of the Hamburg Scientific Foundation . In 1904 he acquired the Wulfsdorf estate and expanded it into a model estate . From 1894 to 1912 he was a member of the municipal council of Wilhelmsburg and the district council in Harburg.

Buildings

  • Development of the Reiherstieg district in Wilhelmsburg for industry and development into a workers' home
  • Bremen-Hamburg railway line
  • Southern Hamburg harbor basin
  • Tsingtau Harbor
  • Sections of the Kiel Canal with the Brunsbüttel lock
  • Northern section of the Elbe-Lübeck Canal
  • Civil engineering works at Frankfurt Main Station
  • Project planning for the Elbe tunnel

Patents and developments

  • Device for separating coarse objects from the dredged material. U.S. Patent No. 44,535
  • Bucket chain for excavation machines. Patent No. 45 026
  • Development of ship lifts in connection with the planning of the Danube-Moldau-Elbe Canal
  • Development of a new type of reinforced concrete sheet pile, used in the quay structures in Kiautschou

Awards

  • 1893: Appointment as honorary boy of the Corps Slesvico Holsatia
  • 1900: The city of Wilhelmsburg named a street after him during his lifetime.
  • 1900: Gold medal at the Paris World Exhibition for collaboration on the Kiel Canal.
  • 1911: Awarded the honorary title of doctoral engineer by the Technical University of Hanover for the promotion of large construction projects at home and abroad as well as the development of facilities for moving large amounts of earth.

literature

  • Enno Vering: Railways, harbors and canals: the areas of work of Carl and Hermann Vering, the pioneers of traffic route construction in the 19th century , 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Corps Slesvico-Holsatia, Corpsliste , winter semester 1981/82, p. 26, no.132
  2. ↑ History of Gut Wulfsdorf ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gutwulfsdorf.de
  3. ↑ On the opening of the main train station in Frankfurt a. M. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 8, No. 34 (August 25, 1888), p. 378
  4. ^ New patents in: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 8, No. 43 (October 27, 1888), p. 464
  5. ^ New patents In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 8, No. 48 (December 1, 1888), p. 512
  6. ^ A. Riedler: Newer ship lifts with special consideration of the designs for the Danube-Moldau-Elbe-Canal. Berlin 1897.
  7. ↑ New reinforced concrete sheet pile and its use in the quayside structures in Kiautschou In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 20, No. 101 (December 22, 1900), pp. 617–619
  8. ^ The distribution of the prizes at the Paris World Exhibition In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 20, No. 68 (August 29, 1900), p. 413
  9. ↑ Miscellaneous In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, 32nd year, No. 1 u. 2 (January 3, 1912), p. 8
personal data
SURNAME Vering, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vering, Johann Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German building contractor and pioneer of traffic route construction
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Awls
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1922
Place of death Hamburg