Rudolf Otto Caesar

Rudolf Otto Caesar

Rudolf Otto Caesar (born November 20, 1840 in Schleibnitz , † November 24, 1925 in Altona ) was a secret senior civil engineer , railway construction specialist and member of the royal railway management .

Life

Rudolf Otto Caesar was born as the fifth of seven children of Schleibnitz Protestant pastor Julius Gustav Caesar and his wife Berta Emilie Luise Grotjan (from Westeregeln ).

After attending the cathedral high school in Magdeburg , he studied structural engineering at the Technical University of Berlin from 1862 to 1865 , then worked as a government construction manager and, after passing the second state examination, from 1870 as a royal government master builder. After participating in the wars of 1866 and 1870/71 , he worked as an operations inspector at the Magdeburg-Halberstädter Eisenbahn in Halberstadt until 1882 .

From 1882 to 1886 he was a member of the works offices in Halberstadt and Flensburg ; then he was transferred as director to Altona (Hamburg). Here he was in charge of the construction of the new train stations in Altona , Kiel , Neumünster and Hamburg and, from 1890, the construction of the so-called Kaiserbahn .

In 1899, Caesar was awarded the status of a secret building officer by the highest authority , and in 1901 he was appointed senior building officer. In 1908 he retired, but was still involved in designs and construction work, including the Alstertalbahn .

Awards

Rudolf Otto Caesar was awarded the Red Eagle Order II. Class and the Crown Order II. Class.

On his 75th birthday, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin for his services to specialist science.

family

Rudolf Otto Caesar married the doctor's daughter Hedwig Nethe on February 8, 1873 in Magdeburg , with whom he had the son Franz and who died on November 25, 1876 after the birth of a pair of twins who also did not survive.

On June 12, 1879, in Halberstadt, he married the daughter of Adele Antonie Auguste Engelcke (November 13, 1853 - December 6, 1926) with whom he had four children: Margarethe , Adele , Elisabeth and Rudolf . His daughter Margarethe married Rudolf Caesar's then employee, the railway civil engineer and later university professor Gustav Schimpff .

His siblings were:

• Julius Gustav Caesar
• Franz Heinrich Arndt Caesar
• Erhard († as a child)
• Marie Luise Caesar married to Albert Wilhelm Cramer von Clausbruch and mother of Rudolf Cramer von Clausbruch
• Gustav Adolf Caesar
• Bertha († as a child)

literature

• August Ludwig Degener: Who is it? Volume 5. Degener, 1911, p. 211.
• Dr.-Ing. eh Rudolf Caesar † . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 45, No. 49 (December 9, 1925), p. 602.