James Hobrecht

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James Hobrecht (around 1890)

James Friedrich Ludolf Hobrecht (born December 31, 1825 in Memel ; † September 8, 1902 in Berlin ) was a Prussian city ​​planner and responsible for Berlin's first perspective development plan , the Hobrecht Plan of 1862. As a city planning officer, he organized the introduction of urban drainage from 1885 and thereby made a contribution to the health of the Berlin population.

Life

Hobrecht was born the son of the landowner Ludolph Hobrecht and his wife Isabella (née Johnson) in Memel, East Prussia . His brothers were the politician Arthur Hobrecht and the poet Max Hobrecht . In 1834 his father was appointed to the Royal Economic Council and the family moved to Königsberg . 1841 broke Hobrecht his schooling and began with a surveyor -Teaching. In 1844 he had his external primary school leaving certificate and in 1845 his geodesy exam. Until 1847 he was busy with separation work in East Prussia and the Coeln-Mindener Railway . During the March Revolution in 1848 he was a member of the student vigilante guard in the Berlin City Palace .

Hobrecht studied at the Berlin Bauakademie , where he was active in the Motive Academic Association , and changed subject several times. He passed his building management exam in 1849 and in the same year joined the Berlin Architects' Association , which included Friedrich August Stüler and Gottfried Semper . He later headed it as chairman. In 1850 he moved with the Third Pomeranian Infantry Regiment No. 14 to Kurhessen , and he was also approved to continue his studies at the Bauakademie. He began his work as a site manager in 1851, including building the packing yard in Königsberg. In 1852 he was briefly administrator of the Dirschkeim estate in Samland . The marriage with Henriette Wolff on February 4, 1853 resulted in three sons and four daughters.

After an agricultural and Civil Education , which includes 1857 employment in the construction of the railway line Küstrin-Frankfurt (Oder) the Prussian Eastern Railway had heard, put Hobrecht 1858 from the water, infrastructure and railway builders exam and was in the same year as government architect at that time Employed the Royal Police (building police) responsible for construction issues. From 1859 he became head of the commission for the development of the development plan for the surroundings of Berlin . An inspection trip in 1860 to Hamburg , Paris and London and other English cities served to get to know the latest state of development for the project of a modern sewer and drainage system. The development plan of the surroundings of Berlin , the so-called Hobrecht Plan , which he developed to a large extent , provided a concept of ring roads and arterial roads for the cities of Berlin and Charlottenburg as well as the surrounding communities as an alignment plan . In 1862 the plan came into force, which still forms the basis of Berlin's building and traffic structure today.

Berlin memorial plaque in honor of Hobrecht

When he was fired on December 15, 1861, he moved to Stettin . Among other things, he had a drinking water network built here and planned a sewer system that was implemented from 1870 onwards.

Memorial plaque in Zepernick - Hobrechtsfelde

With the support of his brother Arthur Hobrecht , who became mayor of Berlin in 1872, and the doctor Rudolf Virchow , he was entrusted with the implementation of his plans for a sewer system for Berlin with twelve radial systems in 1869 . In each of these twelve areas there were separate underground canals and sewage collectors, each leading to a pumping station . From there, the household sewage and rainwater were pumped outside via pressure pipes to the newly created Berlin sewage fields . These radial systems, completed between 1873 and 1893, made Berlin the city with the most modern drainage and the cleanest city in the world. In addition to Stettin and Berlin, he helped Potsdam and around 30 other German municipalities as well as Moscow , Tokyo and Cairo with wastewater disposal.

Between 1872 and 1874 Hobrecht also held a teaching position at the Building Academy. In 1884 he was elected as the successor to Carl Theodor Rospatt for twelve years as the City of Berlin City Planning Officer for road and bridge construction. With the construction of embankment walls along the Spree between Oberbaum and Unterbaum, he made shipping possible through downtown Berlin.

In 1897 Hobrecht retired due to health reasons. He died in Berlin in 1902 at the age of 76 and was buried in Cemetery II of the Sophiengemeinde in Berlin-Mitte . The grave has not been preserved.

Honors

In 1897 Hobrecht was awarded the title of City Elder of Berlin .

Street sign of Hobrechtstrasse in Berlin-Neukölln with a dedication

1908 near Zepernick near Berlin was lying Stadtgut after him Hobrechtsfelde named. He was also the namesake of the Hobrecht Bridge (over the Landwehr Canal in Berlin-Kreuzberg ) and Hobrechtstrasse in Berlin-Neukölln . Since 2005, a street on the site of the former municipal cattle and slaughterhouse in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Pankow has also been named James-Hobrecht-Straße .

In 2013 a street in Großbeeren in the new Heidefeld building area was named after him.

In Darmstadt Paulusviertel a street was also named after him, in recognition of his accomplishments in building the Darmstadt drinking water supply.

In his honor , a Berlin memorial plaque was placed at the entrance to the Lapidarium , the former pumping station No. 3 of the Berlin sewer system .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Election of December 30, 1884. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 5, No. 1 (January 3, 1885), p. 8.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 47.
  3. ↑ Darmstädter Echo of June 8, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Hobrecht, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hobrecht, James Friedrich Ludolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German city planner
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Memel
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1902
Place of death Berlin