Paul Siedentopf

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Paul Siedentopf (born September 3, 1870 in Hanover , † February 29, 1944 ibid) was a German author , publisher and director of the city surveying office (Stadtbauamt) in Hanover.

Life

After taking the Landmesser test in Prussia in 1895, Paul Siedentopf worked for the Royal Special Commission in Hanover for two years. On June 1, 1897, he joined the city of Hanover as a surveyor. After he had been given the management of the remeasurement in 1901, he was given a permanent position in 1902 and a year later he was appointed the municipal chief regional knife.

To the volume of Arnold Nöldeke's 1932 Die Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt [...] Hanover , Siedentopf contributed, among other things, " Photographs and plans ", the authorship of which Nöldeke attributed in part personally to Siedentopf in his book.

On September 30, 1935, he retired as surveying director after a total of 38 years in the service of the city administration.

In addition to numerous articles in various magazines and newspapers about the city history of Hanover, Siedentopf also wrote an article on the early history of Hanover city surveying in the journal for surveying (year 1900, issue 16).

Works (incomplete)

  • The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 (main publication), with the assistance of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the image material), Jubilee-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927
  • Before 1932: "Photographs and plans" in Arnold Nöldeke's Die Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt Hannover
  • The cityscape of Hanover from 1800 to 1930 , Hanover 1933
  • The structural development of the city of Hanover from 1800 to 1930 in 10 Pl.
  • Contributions to the historical development of the city of Hanover from prehistoric times to the present with special consideration of the settlement conditions , Berthold Pokrantz Verlag
  • What old stones tell , self-published , Hanover 1930

literature

  • Louis Rosenthal: The development of the surveying system of the city of Hanover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 14, Issue 3/4, Hanover 1960, pp. 157–272 (pp. 208ff .: The municipal surveying system under Siedentopf and Gerster )
  • Ulrich Scheuermann : Field name collection and field name research in Lower Saxony (= Göttingen research on regional history , vol. 20), Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89534-890-7 , p. 408

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ standard data entry (GND 1034564242 ) of the German National Library . Query date: December 21, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b L. Rosenthal: The development of surveying in Hanover . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter, 1960, pp. 208ff., 230
  3. ^ A b Arnold Nöldeke: The art monuments of the city of Hanover Part 1, Monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover , Verlag Wenner, Osnabrück 1979 (reprint of the edition of "Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover", Vol. 1, H. 2, Teil 1, Hanover, self-published by the Provinzialverwaltung, Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932, numerous illustrations), ISBN 3-87898-151-1 , foreword by the provincial directorate , p. IV
  4. ↑ a b For example: “Fig. 258. Hanover; Andrea's new main guard before the change. Siedentopf. ", In: The art monuments of the [...] city of Hanover , part 1, p. 394
  5. ^ The Hanoverian city survey of the retired Major Deichmann (1859-1870) , reprinted as an excerpt in the Hannoversche Geschichtsbl Blätter 1960, pp. 264–269
personal data
SURNAME Siedentopf, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siedentopf, P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and publisher and director of the city survey office in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 29, 1944
Place of death Hanover