Ludwig Scabell

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Ludwig Carl Scabell
Memorial plaque on the market in Havelberg

Ludwig Carl Scabell (born September 25, 1811 in Berlin ; † June 9, 1885 there ) was the founder and first head of the Berlin fire department from 1851 to 1875 .

Life

Ludwig Scabell was born at Friedrichstrasse  204. His father was the headwater construction inspector Wilhelm Ludwig Scabell, son of the Magdeburg architect Johann David Scabell. His mother was Caroline Alberine Ulrike, née Eitelwein, daughter of Johann Albert Eitelwein, professor and director of the Royal University. After completing his school and apprenticeship, Ludwig Scabell married Franziska Wilhelmine Neander, daughter of a Protestant bishop.

Stations in his professional life were initially as a construction inspector in Liegnitz and as operations director of the Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft before he moved to the Prussian Ministry of the Interior.

Berlin fire brigade

On February 1, 1851, by order of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , Scabell was commissioned to set up a professional fire brigade and appointed Royal Fire Director. Before that, he worked as a construction inspector for the fire department. The office, which at that time was called the Fire Brigade Directorate and was part of the police department, was run by Scabell with passion.

The first eighteen fire stations were established within a short period of time and were manned by full-time firefighters around the clock. Among other things, it was noteworthy that Scabell signed a contract on June 20, 1851, with which a nationwide telegraph network was created for the fire department. On December 27, 1854, fire inspections were set up in Berlin, to which the existing fire stations were subordinated. Scabell thus created what was then a modern authority structure for the fire department. He also initiated the development of cast iron fire alarms , which were first installed in various public places in 1886.

The Berlin fire brigade was not only in use in Berlin , however, in 1870 150 men with fire extinguishers and fire engines also moved to Havelberg , where the great city fire was extinguished under the direction of Scabell. On July 27, 1872, he also took part in the founding ceremony of the Nassau Fire Brigade Association in Wiesbaden, at which Carl Metz and even Kaiser Wilhelm I were present.

On reaching the age of 64, the first head of the Berlin fire brigade, which is therefore the oldest and largest German professional fire brigade, retired on October 1, 1875. Scabell's successor was fire director Gustav Witte .

The former royal fire director died on June 9, 1885 and was buried in Berlin. However, his tomb did not survive the effects of World War II.

Honors

In 1976, in the Berlin district of Wannsee , on the southern boundary of the Wannsee fire station, a street leading to the eastern bank of the Großer Wannsee was named after Ludwig Scabell.

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Scabell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fire director Carl Ludwig Scabell (1851–1875). In: berliner-feuerwehr.de. Retrieved March 30, 2016 .
  2. ^ A b Information from a memorial plaque on the fire station in Havelberg on the Salzmarkt. Seen and photographed by user: 44Penguins in August 2016.
  3. ^ Franz-Josef Sehr : The foundation of the Nassau fire brigade association . In: Yearbook for the Limburg-Weilburg district 2012 . The district committee of the district of Limburg-Weilburg, Limburg-Weilburg 2011, ISBN 3-927006-48-3 , p. 65-67 .
  4. ↑ "06/18/1976 Renaming of Robertstrasse to Scabellstrasse", historical overview, Berlin fire brigade: professional fire station Wannsee ( memento from March 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Scabell, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scabell, Ludwig Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founder of the Berlin Fire Brigade
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1885
Place of death Berlin