Max Carstanjen
Max Carstanjen (* 9. October 1856 in Duisburg , † 2. April 1934 in Adolf height at Biebrich on the Rhine ) was a German mechanical engineering - engineering , design engineer and industrial manager . One of his best-known achievements was the planning and execution of the Wuppertal suspension railway .
Life
Max Carstanjen came from an old merchant family in the Lower Rhine region. He attended the Realgymnasium in Duisburg. After graduating from high school, he began studying engineering at the Zurich Polytechnic (today's Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ). After seven semesters, he moved to the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg , where after three semesters he completed his studies with the first state examination (contemporary construction manager examination). His military service as a one-year volunteer was followed by a traineeship of several years in railway construction in East Prussia , which ended in 1887 with the second state examination (contemporary master builder examination ).
During his subsequent activity as a government builder ( assessor in public construction), he got to know the engineer Anton Rieppel , the head of the Maschinenbau-Actien-Gesellschaft Nürnberg and its bridge-building workshop in Gustavsburg . Rieppel recognized Carstanjen's talent and was able to win him over as an employee. In 1895 Carstanjen moved from civil service at the Elberfeld Railway Directorate to Maschinenbau-Actien-Gesellschaft Nürnberg, from which the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG (MAN) emerged in 1898 .
Rieppel entrusted Carstanjen with the management of the bridge construction with the simultaneous appointment as director. One of his first great accomplishments was the general definition of the 13-kilometer-long Barmen-Elberfeld-Vohwinkel suspension railway and the difficult planning of its track construction, stations and turning loops .
Carstanjen is also considered the "father" of the roller weirs , for which he owned several patents . During his life he devoted himself not only to steel construction, but also, to a very special degree, to defense construction and hydraulic engineering experiments.
In 1907 Carstanjen was appointed to the MAN Group's executive board .
After his retirement, in the last years of his life, Carstanjen did extensive research in the field of ship lifts , for which he developed remarkable systems and received prizes at the age of seventy.
Honors
The Technical University of Karlsruhe made him an honorary senator and the Technical University of Dresden awarded him an honorary doctorate . In August 1918 he received the honorary title of Privy Building Councilor on the occasion of the inauguration of the three Rhine bridges at Rüdesheim , Engers and Remagen , in whose design and construction the MAN Gustavsburg plant was involved. The Kingdom of Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Hesse awarded him medals. He was an external member of the Prussian Academy of Building , co-founder of the German Steel Construction Association and for many years its first chairman.
literature
- Steel construction , 25th year 1956, issue 10 (October 1956), pages 229–232. (also as a special print)
- Richard Carstanjen: Carstanjen, Arnold Julius Maximilian (Max). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 159 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Carstanjen, Arnold Julius Maximilian (Max). Hessian biography. (As of March 24, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de
See also
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carstanjen, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carstanjen, Arnold Julius Maximilian (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mechanical engineer and business manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 2, 1934 |
| Place of death | Biebrich on the Rhine |