Otto Durlach (engineer)

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Otto Durlach (born March 22, 1821 in Grindau ; † December 12, 1893 in Hanover ) was a German civil engineer and Hanoverian and Prussian construction officer .

Life

Otto Durlach was born as the son of a farm owner in the small town of Grindau near Schwarmstedt before industrialization began .

Durlach attended the trade school there in the residential city of Hanover and then worked initially in road construction in Solling and in the construction of the chain bridge in Mannheim , before he was used in the early days of the Royal Hanover State Railways in the construction of the first railway line in the kingdom, the line from Hanover according to Lehrte .

With the support of the royal government, Durlach visited the railway facilities in Rhenish Prussia , Bavaria , Baden and Alsace in 1843 . At another time Durlach visited Alsace, where the brothers and private entrepreneurs Nicolaus and André Koechlin had built the railway line from Mulhouse to Thann in 1839 and from Strasbourg to Basel in 1841 .

After the completion of the older railway lines in the Kingdom of Hanover, an incipient lack of capital for the second phase of the expansion of the route network and in connection with the beginning of the revolution from 1848 onwards, many railway engineers were either fired or assigned to other state buildings. However, the Hanoverian hydraulic engineering department , for example, showed little solidarity with the colleagues who had become unemployed and even refused to employ railway engineers despite their own lack of engineers. Otto Durlach was one of the few exceptional cases who were employed in road construction at the time, in the construction of the Chaussee from Emden to Leer and on to Papenburg . It was not until May 7, 1850 that Durlach were called back to the railroad service.

In 1855 Otto Durlach was appointed assistant to the Royal Hanover Railway Directorate. Around two years later, in 1857, when he was promoted to the building council, he jumped the position of " inspector - director " in this institution.

According to the address book of the city of Hanover from 1868, the Secret Councilor Durlach, at that time a member of the railway management, lived on the ground floor and on the first floor of the - then - house at Ludwigstrasse 1 . With his wife Anna Wilhelmine Sophie Juliane geb. Koehler had Durlach the common-born son and Hannover 1877 in Bremen merchant active August Durlach († 24 May 1894 in Lesum ).

Durlachstrasse

Posthum was 1926 (1970 repealed) Durlachstraße in the Norstadt created by Hannover; according to the address book of the city of Hanover from 1928, the street was named after the "Oberbaurat, Geh. Reg.-Rat Durlach, who put up the draft for the current main station . "

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, the year of birth is called "1819"; compare Lars Ulrich Scholl: Engineers in early industrialization. State and private technicians in the Kingdom of Hanover and on the Ruhr (1815 - 1873) ... p. 203; Preview over google books

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Helmut Zimmermann : Disappeared street names in Hanover , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 48 (1994), pp. 355–378; here: p. 360
  2. ^ A b c d e Lars Ulrich Scholl: Engineers in the early industrialization. State and private technicians in the Kingdom of Hanover and on the Ruhr (1815 - 1873) ... passim; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ Entries from the address book of the Royal Residence City of Hanover 1868 on the website of the Association for Computer Genealogy
  4. ^ Ortsfamilienbuch Bremen and Vegesack , transcription in the portal of the Verein für Computergenealogie eV
personal data
SURNAME Durlach, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German railway and road construction engineer, Hanoverian and Prussian construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Grindau
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1893
Place of death Hanover