Johann Wilhelm Wedding

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Johann Wilhelm Wedding (born August 2, 1798 in Stahlhammer , Upper Silesia , † February 6, 1872 in Berlin ) was a German architect , engineer and university professor .

Life

Johann Wilhelm Wedding was the son of the steelworks inspector in Stahlhammer, who later became the royal upper mountain ridge and director of ironworks in Silesia. After attending school in Gliwice and the Elisabeth-Gymnasium in Breslau , he did voluntary military service during the wars of freedom. He then graduated from school and initially studied mathematics and law in Breslau, but then went to Berlin to attend the building academy and took the surveyor's examination in 1818 while still studying . Then he went back to Silesia to be under the guidance of his father on the Baukondukteurs prepare -Examen. In 1823 he passed his exams before the Oberbaudeputation in Berlin. In 1824 he became a trainee lawyer with the government in Breslau.

In the same year he was appointed by the Prussian Minister Heinrich von Bülow to the Ministerial Building Commission at the Ministry of Public Works in Berlin, where he switched to construction and mechanical engineering. There he got to know Beuth and in January 1825 he joined the Association for the Promotion of Industry . Between 1824 and 1827 he was given leave of absence for a two-year business trip to Holland, England and France. In London he met Beuth and Schinkel , in Paris with Louis Sachse and the painter August Remy. From April 1, 1828 to October 1, 1846 he taught as successor to Severin at the trade institute (from 1866 trade academy) in Berlin, the subjects of mechanical engineering and machine design . Until April 1, 1857, he was both librarian and curator of the collections. From 1828 until the end of his life he was a member of the Technical Deputation. In 1829 he was appointed factory commissioner. From 1831 to 1837 he was also a lecturer at the Bauakademie zu Berlin in the teaching areas of machine details and drawing , construction of machines and their cost calculation . After retiring from teaching, he was given technical assistance at the royal postal administration in 1846. In 1850 he was appointed a member of the newly founded Technical Building Deputation. From 1853 to 1854 he set up the state printing company , which he headed as director until his death. Class and in 1866 was promoted to the Secret Upper Government Council.

family

Wedding was married to the daughter of the city councilor elder and portrait painter Schmeidler from Breslau. The couple had six children, two of whom died very young.

Honors

  • 1837: Award of the Red Eagle Order IV class
  • 1850: Awarded the Order of the Red Eagle III. class
  • 1855: Awarded the medal for services to the trade
  • 1857: Golden medal of the association for the promotion of industry
  • 1870: Awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with oak leaves

literature

  • Michael Kamp: From government pressure to ID system provider. 250 years of identity and security . August Dreesbach Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-944334-14-1 .
  • Negotiations of the association for the promotion of industry in Prussia . Born 51. Nicolai'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin 1872, p. 75 ff . ( Full text in Google Book Search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anna Ahrens: The pioneer: How Louis Sachse invented the art market in Berlin . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50594-3 , pp. 84 . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Wedding, Johann Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Stahlhammer , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1872
Place of death Berlin