Julius Rollmann (civil engineer)

Julius Rollmann (born July 28, 1866 in Stralsund , † 1955 in Kiel ) was a German civil engineer, port construction director of the naval ports of Wilhelmshaven and Kiel and ministerial advisor in the Reich Ministry of Transport .

Life

Rollmann was born as the son of Prof. Dr. phil. Wilhelm Rollmann, senior teacher for mathematics and natural sciences at the Stralsund high school , was born. He attended this grammar school from 1875 to 1885. From Easter 1885 he studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig and in November 1889 passed the first state main examination. From December 1, 1889 to January 1893, Rollmann worked as a royal government construction manager at the “Imperial Canal Commission for the Construction of the Kiel Canal ” and was specially assigned to the Rendsburg canal construction . After completing his master builder work, he also passed the main oral state examination in May 1894. In the same month, he was appointed as the royal government master builder for the route master of the “Royal Canal Commission for the Construction of the Dortmund-Emshafen Canal” ( Dortmund-Ems Canal ). In 1897 he heard about a job offer from the Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven , which was looking for a government builder . Rollmann applied successfully and moved to Wilhelmshaven in autumn 1897 . In early 1898 he was appointed naval port builder . He was entrusted with the formation and management of a new design office, which should work out the designs for the planned new harbor structures of the shipyard. The construction of the shipyard expansion followed later under his leadership.

In 1902 the term of office of the first port construction director, Gromsch , came to an end in the Kiautschou leased area , which was subordinate to the Imperial Navy Office . Alfred Tirpitz appointed Rollmann as his successor and appointed him construction director in Tsingtau , which he reached on November 6, 1902 after more than a month's voyage. In the next few days he witnessed the laying of the foundation stone for the first mole of the Great Harbor, the plans of which were mainly made by Gromsch. Rollmann worked in Tsingtau for a total of five years as head of the entire official construction industry. The three main departments were subordinate to him: 1) port construction, 2) civil engineering , 3) building construction , which the head of the building construction department Karl Strasser disliked. In 1905 the building construction department therefore became independent. During Rollmann's tenure, pier 1 (1904) and pier 2 (1905) were completed.

On December 1, 1907, Rollmann left Tsingtau and returned with his family to Wilhelmshaven, where he began his new position as naval port construction director in early 1908 . In this position, Rollmann had to struggle with major structural problems, as serious deficiencies occurred in the two dry docks built for the new capital ships (" Dreadnoughts ") and at the third port entrance. In the fall of 1912, Rollmann contracted a skin disease that made a long stay at the spa necessary. On April 1, 1913, the Reichsmarineamt transferred Rollmann as naval port construction director to the Kaiserliche Werft Kiel , where he quickly recovered. With the outbreak of the First World War , the requirements of the fleet increased significantly and all structural facilities in the shipyard had to be expanded until the last year of the war. In autumn 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II visited the Kiel shipyard and personally awarded Rollmann the Order of the Crown, 2nd class, on a white and black ribbon. Only a few days later workers 'and soldiers' councils were formed in Kiel . In 1921 Rollmann was put on waiting allowance by the Navy . He therefore moved to the Reich Ministry of Transport in Berlin and was appointed Ministerialrat. Until his retirement in 1931, he worked in the "Waterways" department. 1955 Julius Rollmann died in Kiel.

family

Rollmann was the brother of the admiral and temporary governor of the German protected area Kiautschou Max Rollmann . He was married to Else Eggeling (born May 31, 1871 in Braunschweig ), daughter of the pastor Otto Eggeling, the couple had six children.

Web link and sources

• Wilhelm Matzat: Short biography Julius Rollmann. In: www.tsingtau.org - History of the Germans in East Asia - 1898 to 1946. Accessed November 15, 2015 .