Wilhelm Hellwag

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Wilhelm Hellwag's tomb
Tomb of Wilhelm Hellwag - detail
Hellwagstrasse in Brigittenau

Wilhelm Hellwag (born September 18, 1827 in Eutin , † January 5, 1882 in Vienna ; full name Conrad Wilhelm Hellwag also Konrad Wilhelm Hellwag and Wilhelm Konrad Hellwag ) was a railway engineer.

biography

Wilhelm Hellwag was born as the son of Ernst Ludwig Hellwag (1790–1862) and his wife Maria Amalia Anna. Wibel (1798–1833) and the grandson of Christoph Friedrich Hellwag (1754–1835) were born in Eutin, where he first attended high school, today's Johann Heinrich Voß School . The age of 19 he helped survey work for the construction of the Kiel-Lübeck railway and joined the end of March 1848 war against Denmark the Freischar -Korps of General Ludwig von der Tann-Rathsamhausen at, but fell on 9 April of the same year after the battle of Bau in Danish captivity.

In September he returned to Eutin, where he passed the Abitur exams on September 24, 1848, and then began studying physics at Kiel University . On March 16, 1849, he joined the engineer corps of the Schleswig-Holstein Army and took part in the fighting of 1850. After the army was disbanded on April 1, 1851, Hellwag left Schleswig-Holstein to resume his studies in Munich .

In 1853 Wilhelm Hellwag moved to Basel , where he joined the Swiss Central Railway as an engineer . In the same year, on August 23, 1853, he married his cousin Meta Hellwag, who was also born in Eutin.

In 1868 Wilhelm Hellwag moved from Innsbruck to Vienna-Hietzing, where he stayed until 1875. Then the move to Zurich followed . In 1879 he returned to Vienna.

In the summer of 1881, his eye, which had been blinded by an accident during his childhood, had to be removed. After a recreational stay in Karlovy Vary , he went on a trip to Russia to prepare the construction of a railway line there. On this trip, however, he fell ill and after his return to Vienna he died there in the night of January 4th to 5th, 1882 of kidney disease. He was buried in the Matzleinsdorf Evangelical Cemetery (grave 4-425) in Vienna. His grave monument was designed by the architect Josef Unger.

In 1893, Hellwagstrasse in the 20th district of Vienna was named after Wilhelm Hellwag .

Private

Wilhelm Hellwag had seven children with his wife Meta, who returned to Eutin after the death of her husband and died on November 20, 1890:

  • Maria Anna, married to the businessman Reepen in Hamburg
  • Gustav Hellwag, Post Director in Brake
  • Wilhelm Hellwag, pastor in Kiel
  • Rudolf Hellwag , academic painter and professor in Karlsruhe
  • Karl Hellwag, bank clerk in New York
  • Hans Hellwag , academic painter in Munich
  • Fritz Hellwag, editor in Berlin

Wilhelm Hellwag was a grandson of Christoph Friedrich Hellwag and on the maternal side of Ludwig Conrad Leopold Wibel .

buildings

From 1853 Wilhelm Hellwag worked under Karl Etzel on routing and project planning for new buildings for the Swiss Central Railway. As construction director of the Kaiser Franz Joseph-Orientbahn , Karl Etzel later called him to Vienna as a section engineer in order to entrust him with the planning and construction supervision of the section Stuhlweissenburg - Kanizsa . Subsequently, he was involved in work on the Vienna-Trieste railway line. Also under Etzel, he worked on the drawing up of plans for the Brenner Railway .

Northwest Railway

In October 1868, Wilhelm Hellwag submitted the general project for the lines of the so-called guaranteed network of the Northwest Railway to the Ministry of Commerce . In 1868/1869 the detailed plans were presented to the ministry and, after their approval, construction work began. The first section of the route from Kolín to Jenikau was put into operation on December 6, 1869. From July 1, 1872, all lines of the guaranteed network were in operation. The entire line network of the Austrian Northwest Railway (guaranteed network + supplementary network) could be used from summer 1874.

Outstanding buildings were the Nordwestbahnhof (1870–1872) and the Nordwestbahnbrücke (1871–1872) in Vienna as well as the Znojmo railway bridge over the Thaya in Znojmo (1869–1871) and railway u. Road bridge in Aussig (1972–1974).

Gotthard Railway

In April 1875, Wilhelm Hellwag began his service as chief engineer for the construction of the Gotthard Railway . The northern and southern connecting lines as well as the actual mountain railway with the Gotthard tunnel , the construction of which had started in 1872, had to be built. Operations on all Gotthard Railway lines began on May 23, 1882.

In connection with the construction of the Gotthard route, he wrote the book "Process Ofenheim, hearing of the expert in the railway construction subject Wilhelm Hellwag". In 1882 the publication he wrote and composed of seven brochures appeared in Basel, “The Gotthard Railway. My conflict with the administration ”. In it he defended himself against the allegations raised against him in connection with the construction of the railway line.

literature

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Conrad Wilhelm Hellwag , Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung, January 14, 1882, p. 15, accessed on December 8, 2012
  2. ^ Austrian Biographical Lexicon , accessed December 8, 2012
  3. ↑ Zeno.org - My Library , accessed December 8, 2012
  4. ^ Hans Friedl: Wibel (Wiebel), Ludwig Conrad Leopold. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 788 ( online ).
  5. ↑ usti-aussig.net , accessed on December 8, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Hellwag, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German railway engineer and architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Eutin , Grand Duchy of Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1882
Place of death Vienna , Austria-Hungary