Richard Hempel

Richard Hempel (born May 4, 1857 in Waxfelde in the Oststernberg district , † December 19, 1930 in Kassel ; full name: Karl August Richard Hempel ) was a German geodesist .

Life

Born the son of a mill owner in Waxfelde visited Richard Hempel Latin private school in Sonnenburg and the High School in Frankfurt an der Oder , which he left in 1878 Easter to the land registry office Meseritz as a surveyor - Eleve enter. He passed the surveyor examination in May 1881. From 1881 to 1884 he worked as a surveyor at the Royal Railway Directorate in Bromberg. In the summer semester of 1885 he went to study cultural engineering at the Agricultural University in Berlin . In the same semester he joined the geodetic-cultural-technical association chain , the later RSC-Corps Saxonia-Berlin. In March 1886 he passed the state academic examination for cultural engineering. In 1895 he became a member of the Berlin Freemason Lodge for Resistance .

Immediately after completing his studies, in April 1886 he entered the civil service with the Royal General Commission, which later became the state cultural authority , in Hanover with positions in the geodetic technical office and in the field service with the special commission in Hildesheim . In April 1891 he was employed on a regular basis and in May 1895 was promoted to Oberlandmesser and appointed head of department in Hanover. In 1903 he was transferred to the surveying department of the Hanover General Commission and three years later appointed to the Economics Council. In 1912 he was transferred to the Kassel General Commission as a government and surveyor. In 1916 he was appointed to the state economics council. In this position he was retired after reaching retirement age in 1922.

Richard Hempel was the author of numerous scientific papers in the field of geodesy, which were published in the journal for surveying , as well as some papers for the protection of the native nature, to which his special interest and commitment was directed. In 1926 he revived the Association for Homeland Security in Kurhessen, and was elected its second chairman. The Directorate of the State Agency for the Preservation of Natural Monuments in Prussia honored him in their obituary as one of their most valuable employees and, after his death, arranged for his unpublished work to be published.

Awards

• Richard Hempel was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle 4th class for his services to surveying on January 16, 1910 .

Fonts

• Ponds and dams in coupling (separations, consolidations) . In: Zeitschrift für Vermessungswesen , Volume 18, 1889, pp. 281–285
• The linkages related to flood risks . In: Zeitschrift für Vermessungswesen , 20th year, 1891, pp. 33–37
• Flood clearing and combating them through collecting reservoirs (a reform of our water management) . In: Zeitschrift für Vermessungswesen , Volume 27, 1898, pp. 44–54
• Home beauty and soil culture , 1914
• Mapping and calculation of the estimate in the consolidation process directly on the reprinted estimate cracks . In: Zeitschrift für Vermessungswesen , 45th year, 1916, pp. 22–30.
• Is the Germanization of the technical language up-to-date and a style improvement necessary? In: Zeitschrift für Vermessungswesen , 45th year 1916, pp. 89–99.
• Conservation and Agriculture , 1928
• The reconstruction of the local water management (memorandum to the Reich Economics Minister)
• Treatises in the commemorative publication for the 25th anniversary of the German Federal Homeland Security , 1929

literature

• Carl Weigandt: History of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin to Aachen 1867-1967 , Aachen 1968
• Richard Hempel † . Obituary in: Sachsenblatt , Volume 15, Issue 2, No. 15, March 31, 1931

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official communications . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 1, No. 7 (May 14, 1881), p. 57