Conductor (construction)

Kondukteur or Conducteur is a historical professional titles in construction and surveying .

From the 17th to the 19th century a conductor was an employee or assistant in surveying and drawing work. This could also be someone with experience in architecture, who had learned “ architecture as a science ” intensively and who was then entrusted with the supervision of the construction workers and the construction to be carried out. The term was used in both military and civil affairs.

See also

• Building manager
• Government building supervisor
• Site manager

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Johann Ferdinand Roth : Conductor , in ders .: Non-profit lexicon for readers of all classes, especially for those who have not studied; or a short and clear explanation of the idioms, expressions and made-up words most commonly used in oral conversations and written essays, in alphabetical order , new, improved and increased edition, Nuremberg: Ernst Christoph Grattenauer, 1791; P. 589; Digitized via Google Books
2. ↑ Author collective: Lexicon Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen . Edited by the research group Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen e. V. Transpress. Transport publisher. Berlin. 1989. ISBN 3-344-00264-3 .
3. ^ Johann Georg Krünitz : Economic Encyclopedia or general system of state, town, house and agriculture . Vol. 8, 1776.