Max Becker (engineer)

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Max Becker , from 1869 von Becker , (born April 3, 1817 in Karlsruhe ; † February 4, 1884 ibid) was a German engineer who worked in Baden in the field of engineering and railway and hydraulic engineering.

Life

After attending the Lyceum and Realschule in Karlsruhe, Becker studied mathematics and engineering at the Polytechnic there . In 1839 he passed the state engineering examination with "very good". He worked for a short time as an assistant at the Polytechnic and as a construction manager for the Elz and Dreisam canal works at Riegel until he was appointed to the engineering school of the Polytechnic in 1841 to relieve his teacher Franz Keller , where he was finally appointed professor in 1845.

On May 22, 1847, he married Sophie Wielandt from Karlsruhe. Two of the four sons from this marriage died as children.

Becker was more of a practitioner than a teacher, so he gave up his professorship in 1855 and joined the Grand Ducal Baden water and road administration responsible for railway construction as a district engineer, where he was appointed to the board of the Rastatt Inspection in 1858 and was appointed construction councilor in 1860 and senior construction councilor in 1871 . In 1876 he was appointed as an extraordinary member of the General Management of the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways, founded in 1872, to manage the larger railway and hydraulic structures in Baden, and to supervise the construction of privately built but state-run railway lines such as the Durlach-Eppinger Railway .

In addition to his actual professional activity, Becker took on numerous tasks and offices, especially in Karlsruhe: since the 1840s, head of the Karlsruhe Trade Association, which made him an honorary member in 1858; from 1860 member and later board member of the examination commission for engineers; 1860 member of the federal commission for the introduction of a uniform system of measurements and weights; 1870–1877 member of the city council and then the local health council; from 1879 member of the Protestant parish assembly.

Becker published, among others, various books “Executed Constructions of Engineers” to supplement the overall title “Handbook of Engineering Science”. Becker received numerous honors: 1861 Civil Order of Merit of Adolph von Nassau , 1862 Royal Prussian Order of the Crown, 3rd Class, 1865 Knight's Cross of the Zähringen Order of the Lion (plus the Oak Leaves in 1876 ), 1867 Royal Bavarian Order of St. Michael and 1869 Knight's Cross, 1st Class of the Order of the Württemberg Crown , with which the personal title of nobility ( ennoblement ) was connected.

Works

  • 1847: The cast iron bridges of the Baden railway, especially the Kinzigbrücke near Offenburg and Elbrücke near Sexau , Holtzmann, Karlsruhe online
  • 1854/58: Handbuch der Ingenieur-Wissenschaft , 4 volumes and supplement volume online , Mäcken, Stuttgart:
  • General building knowledge of the engineer. A guide to lectures and self-teaching for hydraulic and road engineers, architects and mechanical engineers online , with Atlas online
  • Hydraulic engineering in its entirety and with special attention to the latest construction online , with Atlas online
  • Bridge construction in its entirety and with special consideration for the latest construction online , with Atlas online
  • Road and railway construction in its entirety and with special consideration for the latest construction online , with Atlas online
  • 1863: Construction work carried out by the engineer , 4 volumes, supplement online and atlas online , Mäcken, Stuttgart. In addition supplementary volumes:
  • 1865: The new railway ship bridge over the Rhine near Maxau, Carlsruhe-Winden line , online with Atlas
  • 1870: Cable shipping and the railway bridge over the Neckar near Jaxtfeld online , with Atlas online
  • 1877: Iron Bridge over the Tauber near Wertheim, Centralgüterbahnhof and Hafencanal in Mannheim, Iron Arch Bridge over the Murg near Forbach, swing bridge over the connecting canal between the Rhine and Neckar in Mannheim online
  • 1883: The correction of the meadow. The water supply for the town of Reiselfingen. Iron bridge over the Mühl- and Floßkanal in Offenburg with road correction

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the Badische Landeszeitung 1884, No. 51, printed in Badische Biographien, Part 4 , Karlsruhe 1891, p. 13 online , from which the other biographical information is also taken
  2. ^ Lars Ulrich Scholl: Engineers in the early industrialization. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1978, p. 244 online
  3. ↑ Cornelia Meyer-Stoll: The measure and weight reforms in Germany in the 19th century with special consideration of the role of Carl August Steinheil and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Munich 2010, p. 145 online
  4. ↑ Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe Becker, Max (bust)  in the German Digital Library
  5. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1873, p. 58
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden railway engineer
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1884
Place of death Karlsruhe