Karl Fricke (surveying engineer)

Karl Fricke (born May 21, 1908 in Essen ; † 1993 ) was a German surveyor , vocational school teacher , author and editor .

Life

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At the time of the Weimar Republic , Karl Fricke qualified as a surveying engineer at the Frankfurt State Building School in 1931 . After working in the Prussian port construction offices in Kolberg and Stolpmünde , he found employment with the Hanover city survey office in 1934 .

In the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and became a prisoner of war , from which he was able to return to the Hanover city surveying office in August 1945 during the first months under the British military government . But above all the center of the city, which soon became the capital of the newly founded federal state of Lower Saxony , was largely destroyed and buried under ruins by the air raids on Hanover , so that Fricke was faced with extraordinary tasks here. Similar to the municipal surveying centers set up in many cities in northern and western Germany between 1860 and 1875 and their surveying and map documents developed over decades, the land surveying office in Hanover was destroyed during the war, and almost all of the map material was destroyed or rendered unusable so that an almost completely new start had to be made.

In the same year 1945 Karl Fricke initiated the "complete renewal of the city maps of all scales in Hanover [... which] received attention beyond the boundaries of the city of Hanover." Fricke subsequently published his multi-volume work The urban map system in Hanover. Development and status from 1860 to 1971 , in which, in addition to a description of the various map materials, he also went into detail on the Hanover city maps and their originators from the time before the establishment of the Royal Hanoverian and later democratically run city surveying office Hanover.

Until his retirement on May 30, 1973, Fricke then headed the cartographic department of the city surveying office in the function of "Technical Administrative Council", an official title that was created especially for the surveyor.

In addition to his official duties, the surveyor also worked as a specialist teacher at the commercially oriented vocational school and wrote the textbook Der Vermessungstechniker , which was published in several editions by Schroedel Verlag . Measure, calculate, draw .

Karl Fricke was a member of the Hanover local association of the German Society for Cartography and, even after his retirement, took part in “further developments and technical innovations” in the Hanover city surveying office. He died in 1993 shortly after reaching the age of 85.

Fonts (selection)

• Paul Neddermeyer, Karl Fricke: The urban maps (= The structure of the city of Hanover , memorandum 4), 12 pages with 12 maps, ed. from the building administration of the capital Hanover, 1950
• Karl Fricke (author), Rudolf Hillebrecht (preface): The urban map system in Hanover. Development and status from 1860 to 1971 , ed. from the city survey office of the state capital Hanover, Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung und Verlag, 1973,
  • Vol. 1: Text (at the same time Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Vol. 27), ISBN 978-3-7752-5115-0 and ISBN 3-7752-5115-4
  • Vol. 2: Supplements (also Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Vol. 27), ISBN 978-3-7752-5116-7 and ISBN 3-7752-5116-2
• Karl Fricke, Joachim Richter, Kurt Schneider (ed.): The surveying technician. Measuring, calculating, drawing , 6th, revised edition, Hanover, Dortmund, Darmstadt, Berlin: Schroedel Schulbuchverlag, 1977, ISBN 978-3-507-91620-3 and ISBN 3-507-91620-7

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} o. V .: Karl Fricke 85 years , in: Kartographische Nachrichten . KN. Organ of the German Society for Cartography eV, the Swiss Society for Cartography and the Austrian Cartographic Commission in the Austrian Geographical Society. Journal of cartography and geographic information , Vol. 43-44, Bielefeld: Velhagen & Klasing, 1993, p. 161; Preview over google books
2. ↑ ^{a b} Obituaries Gisbert Diederich, Karl Fricke, Alois Gerth, Hans-Adolf Hedemann, Erich Hofrichter, Ulrich Horst, Michael Koch, Paul Meiser, Werner Naucke, Eckart Reiche, Renate Schneider, Siegfried Schneider, Walter Schottler, Ernst Otto Teuscher (= Geological Yearbook / Communications: Obituaries , Book 8), ed. from the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials and the State Geological Offices in the Federal Republic of Germany, Hanover: Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials, 1993
3. ^ Karl Fricke: Vermessungen , in ders .: The urban map system in Hanover. Development and status from 1860 ... , Vol. 1: Text , ed. from the city survey office of the state capital Hanover, Hanover: LHH, 1972, p. 21f.
4. ^ Hermann Gebauer: Foreword , in Karl Fricke (author), Rudolf Hillebrecht ( foreword ): The urban map system in Hanover. Development and status from 1860 ... , Vol. 1: Text , ed. from the city survey office of the state capital Hanover, Hanover: LHH, 1972, p. 5f.
5. ↑ Compare, for example, the information provided by the Cooperative Library Association Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV) on the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog