Ludwig Heinrich von Holleben

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Ludwig Heinrich von Holleben - Luiz Henrique, Barão de Holleben

Ludwig Heinrich Graf von Holleben , known as Luiz Henrique, Barão de Holleben , (born December 5, 1832 in Rudolstadt , † April 2, 1894 in Rio Grande , Brazil ) was a German-Brazilian engineer and commissioner for the development of the railway and Road network in southern Brazil.

Life

Holleben was born on December 5, 1832, the fifth of six children of Karl Ludwig Anton von Holleben, called von Normann, (1786–1849) and Ida von Schönberg (1803–1867) from the second line of the Saxon - Thuringian noble family of the Holleben . Until 1851 he attended the military school in Leipzig and was from 1852 to 1854 Second Lieutenant in Infantry Regiment No. 29 in the Prussian Army , stationed in Trier. In 1855 he took part in the British-German Foreign Legion in the Crimean War. In England he trained to be a railway engineer. His first marriage to an English woman who died in childbed remained childless.

In 1860 he went to Central America and in 1861 he moved to Brazil. In southern Brazil he took on tasks as an engineer for public works in the province of Paraná of the Brazilian Empire , which was only created in 1853 and which had become a settlement area for German emigrants. Holleben initially worked as a land surveyor (parceling out settlement areas for the Paranaensic land ownership law, the Lei de Terras). In 1866 he was granted Brazilian citizenship.

He measured the route of the first road between Curitiba and the Colônia Dona Francisca (now Joinville ), and he was also involved in the Estrada da Graciosa . The Estrada de Ferro Campos a Carangola (EFCC) was one of the railway lines he measured . In 1875, in the presence of the Empress and Emperor Dom Pedro II, he laid the foundation stone for their Campos dos Goytacazes train station . The aim of this project was to connect the forerunners of today's states of Minas Gerais , Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro in terms of traffic. In the 1880s he worked on the railway connection from Montenegro to Garibaldi (then Colônia Conde d'Eu) and Bento Gonçalves . From 1880 to 1882 he settled at a marshal, from which the town of Barão, which is now named after him, arose , but this is not undisputed. Today's Bairro Alto da Glória in Curitiba emerged from a previous residence , where he owned the villa "Casa da Chácara", today's seat of the Colégio Estadual do Paraná. From 1882 to 1894 Holleben worked in Porto Alegre , where he was involved as an engineer in the expansion of the port, in the construction of the Ferro Carril de Pelotas tram line and as the chief designer of several sections of the Estrada de Ferro Rio Grande-Bagé . In Cerrito, today's municipal city of Pedro Osório , he owned a business with a partner, which was attacked and looted during the federal revolution in Rio Grande do Sul in 1893 , as a result of which he could no longer meet his business obligations and was driven into ruin. A life in debt was unsustainable for him; he died in 1894 from a pistol bullet.

Holleben was married twice and left behind from his second marriage to Maria da Luz dos Santos, who died of yellow fever in 1863 , the sons Luís Antônio de Holleben (1866–1951) and Luís Alberto de Holleben (1868–1965), from their third marriage Maria de Azevedo cook another five children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Jahrbuch des Deutschen Adels , Volume 2, 1898, Verlag von WT Bruer, p. 88 (digitized version) .
  2. ^ Wilhelm von Holleben: History of the von Holleben family. FA Perthes, Gotha 1895, panel IV 1 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Gustav Hermann Strobel: Relatos de um pioneiro da imigração Alemã. Instituto Histórico, Geográfico e Etnográfico Paranaense, Estante Paranista, 1987, pp. 95-98. ( Also in Google Book Search).
  4. ^ Coleção das leis do Imperio do Brasil. Typographia Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 1866, volume 26, part 1, p. 30 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ↑ Cacilda Machado, Sergio Odilon Nadalin: Memória individual e discurso social. Relatos de um imigrante Curitiba (Brasil), passagem do século XIX para o XX. In: Confluenze. Rivista di studi iberoamericani. Bologna, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2013, ISSN  2036-0967 , pp. 1–16, here p. 7 ( digitized version ) (Portuguese).
  6. ^ Walter Luiz Carneiro de Mattos Pereira: Circuito de integraco regional: a Estrada de Ferro Campos-Carangola no século XIX. In: O oitoccentos sob novas perspectivas. Alameda, São Paulo 2014, ISBN 978-85-62157-19-6 , p. 87 ( digitized version ( memento of May 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive )) (PDF; 2.08 MB; Portuguese).
  7. ↑ História, Dados Gerais, Barão ( Memento of May 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), website of the city prefecture (accessed on May 22, 2015, Portuguese).
  8. ↑ Marcelo Saldanha Sutil: O espelho ea miragem. Ecletismo, moradia e modernidade na Curitiba do início do século. Curitiba 1996, p. 83. (Dissertation, Universidade Federal do Paraná, 1996). ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Holleben, Ludwig Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holleben, Ludwig Heinrich Graf von (full name); Holleben, Luiz Henrique Barão de; Holleben, Luis Henrique Barão
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Brazilian engineer
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Rudolstadt
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1894
Place of death Rio Grande , Brazil