Rudolf Schmick

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Rudolf Schmick (born December 30, 1858 in Bad Ems , † February 6, 1934 in Munich ) was a German civil engineer and hydropower pioneer .

Life

Rudolf Schmick was born on December 30, 1858, the son of civil engineer Peter Schmick and his wife Agnes Jung.

Rudolf Schmick did his Abitur at the Realgymnasium in Frankfurt am Main . From 1877 Schmick studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and the Technical University of Charlottenburg . In Karlsruhe he became a member of the Corps Cheruskia . In 1884 Schmick became government building supervisor ( trainee lawyer ) and in 1888 government building master ( assessor ) in the Prussian civil service. As construction manager he was involved in the construction of the new Frankfurt main station and was employed by the Berlin magistrate for the construction of the new sewer system.

As a government master builder, he designed river engineering for the Main river for the Frankfurt am Main hydraulic engineering office . In 1889 Schmick resigned from civil service. In his father's engineering office he mainly dealt with the water supply and drainage of cities and planned the corresponding systems for 44 municipalities. The municipalities of Hanau, Gießen and Aschaffenburg were among his clients. For the Aare he planned run-of-river power plants between Wynau and Wangen an der Aare , which were put into operation in 1896 and 1898. In 1902, Rudolf Schmick was commissioned by the Hessian Ministry of Finance in Darmstadt to plan a group water supply in Upper Hesse and to redesign Bad Nauheim . As a freelance engineer, he and Jean Jacquel applied to the Bavarian government in 1904 for a license to build and operate the Walchensee power station . In 1908 he was sent by the Reich Colonial Office to study hydrography, irrigation options and ports in German South West Africa and German East Africa . There he wrote several studies, including one on a dam in the Naute area and on irrigation projects on Lake Victoria .

In 1909 he set up his engineering office in Munich. From 1910 to 1912 he was entrusted by the Munich magistrate with the planning and construction management of the Leitzachwerke . Schmick was significantly involved in several dams and the Jettenbach - Töging river level , as well as the expansion of the Middle Isar.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary celebration, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Aachen in 1920.

In 1924 his son-in-law Helmuth Edwin Fentzloff (1896–1980) joined the engineering office.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Go. Senior building officer Dr.-Ing. Eh Schmick 70 years. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 62, 1928, No. 102, p. 880.
  2. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 241.
  3. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 40, 1920, No. 87, p. 551.
personal data
SURNAME Schmick, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and hydropower pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Ems
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1934
Place of death Munich