Ludwig Benjamin Henz
Louis Benjamin Henz (* 23. May 1798 in Magdeburg , † 15. January 1860 in Berlin ) was a German engineer of the railways , the Prussian construction officer, Mr and technical specialist author .
Life
Ludwig Henz first devoted himself to construction in Magdeburg and after passing his state examination in making the Lippe navigable , he was employed first in Hamm , then in correcting the mouth of the Ruhr in Ruhrort , and in 1825 was appointed master hydraulic engineer on the upper Ruhr. A study trip to Great Britain in 1830 prompted him to devote himself to railway construction in Germany. He then received orders to work on the Lippstadt - Rehme and Cologne - Antwerp railway projects . After completing the latter plan, he completed his studies on railway construction in Belgium and published several sensational memoranda , as a result of which he was commissioned to work on the project of a railway from Elberfeld to Witten , which in 1837 merged into the larger project of the Rhine-Weser Railway .
After temporary employment as a hydraulic engineer in Ruhrort and Danzig and as a technical assistant in the Prussian Ministry of Finance in Berlin, he was involved in the construction of the Lower Silesian-Märkische Railway from 1843 , which was opened to traffic in 1846. In 1848 he received the order to build the canal from Berlin to Spandau and in the same year he managed to buy the Cologne-Minden-Thuringian connecting railway by the Prussian state, worked on the plans for its completion and got the construction going again. Appointed chairman of the resulting royal management of the Westphalian Railway , he promoted its difficult construction and completed it in 1853.
He died on January 21, 1860, with the organization of the rich material, especially collected on a study trip to the United States , for a major structural engineering work and with the preparation for lectures at the Berlin Building Academy .
Fonts
- The Ruhr Current and its shipping conditions. Essen 1840.
- Practical guide to earthworks. Berlin 1856. (3rd edition 1873)
- Auxiliary boards for calculating the content of earthworks in the construction of railways, roads and canals. Berlin 1854.
- Normal bridges and culverts. 2nd edition, Berlin 1869.
- Bendel (Ed.): Articles concerning the railway system in North America. Berlin 1862.
literature
- Johann Wilhelm Schwedler : From the life of the secret government councilor Henz. In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , 10th year 1860, column 463–472.
- Henz . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 8, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 388.
- Olaf Schmidt-Rutsch: In the stream of the technical revolution. Ludwig Henz. From hydraulic engineering technician on the Ruhr to railway director in Prussia 1798–1860. Klartext, Essen 2003. (= Westphalian Industrial Museum , Sources and Studies , Volume 10.)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henz, Ludwig Benjamin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Henz, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German railway engineer and Prussian construction officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1860 |
| Place of death | Berlin |