Karl Löwe (administrative lawyer)

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Carl Wilhelm Leopold Löwe (born December 21, 1845 in Breslau ; † August 8, 1907 in Kiel ) was a German administrative lawyer . As the first President of the Imperial Canal Office, he founded the canal helmsman's profession on the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, which later became the Kiel Canal.

Life

Löwe studied law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1865 he became a member of the Corps Suevia Tübingen and the Corps Neoborussia Berlin . After the exams and the auscultation training , he entered the internal administration of the Kingdom of Prussia . From 1877 to 1885 he held the office of district administrator for the district of Heinsberg in the Rhine province . When the Reichstag (German Empire) passed the law to build a canal between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea in 1886 , Löwe became head of the Imperial Canal Commission. With the opening of the canal in 1895, Löwe was appointed President of the Imperial Canal Office as a Privy Councilor.

In the first year of operation of the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, almost every 20th ship was damaged . Löwe recognized the need to train canal helmsmen according to the Dutch ( North Sea Canal ) and Belgian ( Canal Gent – ​​Terneuzen ) pattern and to use them on the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal. On July 15, 1899, he submitted the request to the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. The State Secretary approved it on October 9, 1899. This created the canal helmsman's profession, which is still unique in Germany today. On February 7, 1900 the canal administration asked 37 shipping companies to enable the canal helmsmen to be trained on their ships during the canal passage.

Died at the age of 62, Löwe was buried in the Holtenau cemetery. His successor was Georg Kautz .

See also

literature

  • Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 613 f .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 197/378; 12/168
  2. ↑ Dithmarschen Wiki
personal data
SURNAME Leo, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löwe, Carl Wilhelm Leopold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION President of the Imperial Canal Office
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1907
Place of death Kiel