Otto Blum

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Otto Blum (born September 1, 1876 in Neunkirchen (Saar) ; † October 26, 1944 in Hanover ; full name: Otto Leonhard Blum ) was a German civil engineer and university professor . As a professor of railway engineering at the Technical University of Hanover , he was also the rector of the university from 1929 to 1931 .

Life

Otto Blum: Urban planning. Berlin 1921.

Otto Blum was the son of the builder and railway specialist Johann Karl Alfred Blum (1847–1920) and his wife Karolina (Lina) Liebmann. Otto Blum was the grandson of the politician and poet Robert Blum . From 1895 to 1899 he studied at the Technical University of Charlottenburg . During his studies he became a member of the Academic Association Motiv . He then began his legal clerkship as a government construction manager at the Berlin Railway Directorate , where he later worked as a government construction master ( assessor ) and, from 1907, as a railway construction and operations inspector . During this time, Blum undertook extensive study trips within Europe and the Near East as well as a trip around the world. He also received his doctorate in 1903 at the Technical University of Charlottenburg, where he became a lecturer.

In the winter semester of 1907 Otto Blum was offered a professorship at the Technical University of Hanover in order to take over the chair for railway construction and operation from Karl Dolezalek . In the course of his work, Blum expanded the chair considerably to include the areas of transport policy (1908), railways and, in 1913, urban and regional planning . With this he founded the urban development training in Hanover, which was supplemented in 1919 at the architecture faculty by Ernst Vetterlein . His publication Städtebau , which appeared in the first edition in 1921 and in a completely revised version in 1937, is important. From 1929 to 1931 Blum was rector of the Technical University of Hanover. In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges .

From 1924 to 1929 he was a member of the board of directors of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft . In 1936 he was appointed an extraordinary member of the Prussian Academy of Civil Engineering.

Otto Blum and his wife Luise Fischer died after a bomb attack .

A portrait (oil painting by Berthold Hellingrath ) and a bronze bust of Blum are in the possession of today's Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover .

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Planning / drafts

  • 1900: Design for a mountain railway , awarded the Schinkel Prize in the railway construction category
  • 1908–1910: Competition draft for a basic plan for the structural development of Greater Berlin , awarded the 4th prize (in collaboration with the engineers Havestadt & Contag and the architect Bruno Schmitz )
  • 1912: Competition design for an overall development plan for the city of Düsseldorf , together with Bruno Schmitz, 1st prize

Fonts (selection)

  • with Erich Giese (arr.): How do we open up our colonies? , with num. Ill. And 5 plates, on behalf of the German Colonial Society, Reimer, Berlin 1907.
  • Georg Barkhausen †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 43rd year 1923, No. 31/32 (from April 18, 1923), p. 189.
  • with Gustav Jacobi and Kurt Risch: Traffic and Operation of the Railways (= reference library for civil engineers , 2: Railways and urban development, 8th) Springer, Berlin 1925.
  • Passenger and freight stations (= reference library for civil engineers , 2: Railways and urban development, 5.1.) Springer, Berlin 1930.
  • The reconstruction of the Mühlendamm lock in Berlin and the efficiency of the railway. In: Städtebau , Volume 26, 1931, p. 96.
  • Traffic geography , Springer, Berlin 1936.
  • The development of traffic , Springer, Berlin 1941.
  • The south-east from a transport perspective , Springer, Berlin 1941.
  • with Hermann Potthoff and Kurt Risch: Tram and omnibus in the city center (= traffic science treatises , volume 13.), Fischer, Jena 1942.
  • Railway construction. Winter, Heidelberg 1946.

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 7, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theomolberg.de
  2. ↑ The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 28.
  3. ^ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - Online bibliography: Otto Blum , accessed on March 6, 2010
  4. ↑ 150 years of the Schinkel Competition - Prize-winning ideas and projects. Winner of the competition 1852–2006 ( memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 6, 2010
  5. ↑ Images of the design in: Berliner Architekturwelt , 13th year 1910/1911, No. 4 (from July 1910) (PDF file; 13.10 MB), pp. 141–149.
  6. ^ Friedrich Tamms : From people, cities and bridges , Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf 1974, ISBN 3-430-19004-5 , p. 63
  7. ^ Paul Mahlberg : The urban development result of a competition to obtain a development plan for Greater Düsseldorf . In: Kunstgewerbeblatt . Volume 24 (1913), pp. 64–67, illustration on p. 65 ( digitized version )
  8. ^ Hugo Weidenhaupt; Little history of the city of Düsseldorf, Triltsch Verlag Düsseldorf, 9th edition, 1983, p. 144
  9. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 34, 1914, No. 97 (from December 5, 1914) , p. 665. (Note on the award of the medal)
personal data
SURNAME Blum, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blum, Otto Leonhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and university professor, rector of the Technical University of Hanover (1929–1931)
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen (Saar)
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1944
Place of death Hanover