Karl Theodor Müller

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Karl Theodor Müller (born November 21, 1840 in Pretzsch an der Elbe, † March 31, 1909 in Koblenz ) was a German hydraulic engineer and most recently Rheinstrom construction director.

Life

Long bridge in Potsdam, inaugurated in 1888

From 1863 to 1864 Müller Baueleve was in Pretzsch and then attended the Bauakademie in Berlin . In 1866 he was appointed site manager , when he worked on melioration projects in the province of Brandenburg , in the administrative district of Trier , for the Rheinische and the Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg railway companies . He studied again at the building academy and passed the second state examination. In 1875 he was appointed government master builder. Until 1876 he was an unskilled worker in the Ministry of Public Works when he took over the management of the Rheinsberger and later that of the Zehdenick-Liebenwalder canal construction . In the autumn of 1880 he became a hydraulic engineering unskilled worker for the government in Potsdam . In 1882 he was appointed hydraulic engineering inspector, and on April 1, 1885, he was appointed to head the hydraulic engineering inspection in Potsdam . His first big task here was the new construction of the Long Bridge in Potsdam, for whose good execution he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle . In 1889 he was appointed as a technical member of the commission for the implementation of the dyke and shipping systems in the Vistula - Nogat - Deichverband and in 1891 was appointed government and building councilor. Under his direction, the dune dam in the mouth of the Vistula was pierced in 1895 and the large regulatory body was opened to reduce damage caused by ice drift. For a short time he worked again in the Ministry of Public Works in 1896, before he became Rheinstrom construction director in Koblenz in the summer of 1896. Here he continued the regulatory work that had already been started in 1879 and completed it in 1901. On October 1, 1909, he retired from active service. He died of heart failure shortly afterwards, leaving behind a wife, two sons and a daughter.

Awards

  • around 1889: Red Eagle Order IV class
  • around 1895: Order of the Red Eagle III. Class with the loop
  • 1901: Order of the Crown, 2nd class
  • 1909: Order of the Red Eagle II class with oak leaves
  • foreign medals

literature

  • Rasch: Karl Theodor Müller † , in: Ministry of Public Works (ed.): Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Berlin, April 9, 1910/30. Volume, No. 29, pp. 1 and 4f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official notices , in: Ministry of Public Works (Ed.): Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Berlin, October 30, 1909/29. Volume, No. 87, p. 1
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Karl Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Rheinstrom building director
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Pretzsch on the Elbe
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1909
Place of death Koblenz