Rudolf Henneberg (engineer)

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Rudolf Henneberg (born March 26, 1845 in Gotha ; † August 2, 1909 in Berlin ) was an engineer, entrepreneur and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Henneberg attended the secondary school in Gotha until he graduated from high school in 1863. He completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith at Briegleb, Hansen & Co. in Gotha from 1863 to 1864 and attended the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe from 1864 to 1866 as well as the trade academy in Berlin from 1866 to 1867. Between 1867 and 1869 he was initially employed as an engineer at A. Borsig and L. Schwartzkopff . From 1869 to 1870 he was temporarily employed by the city of Berlin to prepare an expert report on central heating in city buildings. From 1870 to July 1872 he was chief engineer at Elmer & Stumpf, the later joint stock company "Neptun". On July 1, 1872, he founded the Rietschel & Henneberg company with Professor Hermann Rietschel in Berlin. This was one of the forerunners of today's Imtech company and dealt in particular with heating and ventilation systems in buildings.

Between 1881 and 1884 he was the first secretary of the General German Exhibition in the Field of Hygiene and Rescue Services, Berlin 1883. His later company Henneberg, Herzberg & Co. was commissioned by the German Edison Society for Applied Electricity in 1883 to implement the incandescent lighting essentially involved.

Villa Henneberg in Berlin-Nikolassee

From 1887 to 1890 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha 2 ( Gotha ) and the National Liberal Party .

From 1892 to 1894 Henneberg was chairman of the Berlin district association of the Association of German Engineers (VDI). In 1893 and 1894 he was also a board member of the entire association. At the time of the construction of the first VDI house at Charlottenstrasse 43 in Berlin, he was chairman of the responsible building committee.

In 1896/97 he acquired the Waldhof above Littenweiler , where he and his wife Johanna, geb. von Böckh, wanted to retire. However, as early as 1900 he returned to Berlin for professional reasons.

In 1901 founded villa colony Nikolassee near Berlin, Henneberg had a stately villa built on Rehwiese from 1902–1903 by the terrain company “Heimstätten AG” (HAG) , whose historicizing elements (high plinth, tower, ornamental framework, Gothic-style windows, balustrade) were built stand out from the three neighboring buildings with which the villa forms a group of houses and which are more open to modern influences. Henneberg's neighbors in Nikolassee included the frigate captain Johannes Vanselow and the chemist, chess master and writer Oskar Cordel . The group of houses at An der Rehwiese 12/15 has largely been preserved in its original condition and is a listed building as an ensemble.

The listed grave of the Henneberg family in the Evangelical Churchyard Nikolassee

Death and grave

Rudolf Henneberg died in Berlin in 1909 at the age of 64. He was buried in the Evangelical Churchyard Nikolassee , in a hereditary funeral in which his younger brother Otto Henneberg (1848–1907), also an engineer, was buried.

The large, representative grave complex is dominated by a central pillar aedicula . In front of it stands a female bust made of white marble on a high plinth. The facility, built in 1908, was designed by the architect Conrad Faerber and executed by Kessel & Röhl ; the picture decoration comes from I. E. Müller. The Henneberg hereditary burial is protected as a monument .

literature

  • Klaus W. Usemann: Development of heating and ventilation technology into science: Hermann Rietschel - life and work . Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-26138-X , p. 150 ff .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 284.
  2. ^ Theodor Peters : History of the Association of German Engineers . Based on papers left by Th. Peters - Published on behalf of the board and completed by 1910. Self-published by the Association of German Engineers, Berlin 1912, p. 130 .
  3. ^ Marie-Luise Heuser , Wolfgang König : Tabular compilations on the history of the VDI . In: Karl-Heinz Ludwig (Ed.): Technology, Engineers and Society - History of the Association of German Engineers 1856–1981 . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-18-400510-0 , p. 576 .
  4. ^ Karl-Heinz Manegold: The VDI in the phase of high industrialization from 1880 to 1900 . In: Karl-Heinz Ludwig (Ed.): Technology, Engineers and Society - History of the Association of German Engineers 1856–1981 . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-18-400510-0 , p. 134-135 .
  5. ↑ Group of houses at An der Rehwiese 12 & 13 & 14 & 15 . In the online database of the Berlin State Monuments Office. Accessed March 11, 2019.
  6. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 625.
  7. ↑ Ev. Nikolassee churchyard, part of the Henneberg family gravesite . In the online database of the Berlin State Monuments Office. Accessed March 11, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Henneberg, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, entrepreneur and politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1909
Place of death Berlin