Richard Cramer (civil engineer)

Richard Cramer, around 1905

Richard Cramer (born June 13, 1847 in Koethen , † September 9, 1906 in Berlin ; full name: Richard Edmund Otto Cramer ) was a German civil engineer .

Life

After graduating from high school, Cramer did a six-month internship at the Dingler'schen machine factory in Zweibrücken . From October 1865 to October 1868 he studied at what was then the Berlin Trade Academy, a predecessor of today's Technical University of Berlin . He worked as a designer for the Hoppe and Hummel companies, for the new buildings of the Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburger- (since 1871) and those of the Berlin-Anhaltische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (1874 to 1877). Then he practiced his profession as a self-employed civil engineer.

Cramer was made an associate member of the Royal Academy of Civil Engineering in 1894 and later a full member. In 1899 he received the non-academic title of building officer , when the Royal Theater reopened after the major renovation with his collaboration, he was awarded the Red Eagle Order, 4th class . He later received the title of professor .

Work

• Atrium roof and domed hall of the Hall of Fame (the former armory) in Berlin
• Conversions in the Old and New Museum , structural parts of the Museum of Natural History , the Museum of Ethnology , the Reichsbank , the Stock Exchange, the Reichspostmuseum , the State Parliament building , the Pergamon Museum , the sculpture hall at the State Exhibition Building in Moabit, the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt , etc.
• impressive number of churches and synagogues (synagogue on Lützowstrasse in Berlin, 1898) inside and outside Berlin

literature

• Rönnebeck: Richard Cramer †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 26, 1906, No. 75 (from September 15, 1906), pp. 481f.
• Walter Sbrzesny:  Cramer, Richard Edmund Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 392 ( digitized version ).
• Ines Prokop: Steel construction, supporting structures and their protagonists in Berlin 1850-1925 , Mensch und Buch Verlag 2012

Web links

• Ines Prokop: From iron construction to steel construction: Richard Cramer - Otto Leitholf - Gerhard Mensch , lectures at the German Museum of Technology March 2018, momentum magazine (with photo)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Originated from her dissertation in Berlin: Iron Structures in Berlin. 1850-1925. Influence of material on structures, 2011. Update of the study of steel construction in Berlin and Potsdam until 1850 by Werner Lorenz .