Jakob Baltensperger

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Jakob Baltensperger (born April 21, 1883 , † October 26, 1949 in Bern ) was a Swiss geodesist and federal surveying director.

life and work

Jakob Baltensperger completed his theoretical training at the geometer school at the cantonal technical center in Winterthur from 1899 to 1903 .

As a trained geometer and cultural technician, Baltensperger moved to Aarau in 1903 , where he worked until 1908 as the first technical assistant to the Aarau canton geometer and cultural technician P. Baser, as a verifier of surveys and as a cultural technician, primarily in the planning and construction management of drainage. In 1905 he also acquired the patent as a concordat geometer. Baltensperger was the first canton geometer in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in 1908 and from 1912 worked as the first adjunct in the Federal Land Registry. There he worked for the first ten years for the processing of the general plan for the implementation of the land register survey and the associated financial plan. As secretary of the federal commission for geometer examinations, Baltensperger had rendered outstanding services to the commission and its president Fritz Baeschlin and contributed significantly to the high reputation of the geometer examination. When the head of the federal land registry, Theo Guhl, and the surveying inspector Emil Röthlisberger resigned in 1922, Baltensperger was elected surveying inspector by the Federal Council on January 30, 1922 .

In addition, the federal land registry was dissolved as an independent administrative department and the business circles of the land registry and surveying were incorporated into the federal judicial department. In accordance with the actual functions of Baltensperger, the Federal Council changed the official title of surveying inspector to surveying director in 1929.

As a delegate of the Federal Council, Baltensperger took part in the International Geometer Congresses in Paris 1926, Zurich 1930, London 1934 and Rome 1938. He was also at the international congresses for photogrammetry in Zurich in 1930 and in Paris in 1934. Baltensperger resigned from his offices in December 1948 for reasons of age and health. Hans Härry was his successor .

The University of Bern awarded Baltensperger an honorary doctorate . An enthusiastic soldier, he had served ten years as a general staff officer and fifteen years as a genius colonel. Baltensperger found his final resting place in the Schosshaldenfriedhof in Bern.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Resignation of the Federal Land Surveyor Dr. hc J. Baltensperger. In: Swiss Journal for Surveying, Cultural Technology and Photogrammetry, 1949
personal data
SURNAME Baltensperger, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss geodesist and federal director of land surveying
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1883
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1949
Place of death Bern