Rudolph Berg

This article deals with the architect Rudolph Berg. For other people see Rudolf Berg and Rudolph Bergh .

Rudolph Berg (born April 12, 1823 in Göttingen , † November 29, 1883 in Hanover ; full name: Theodor Friederich Rudolph Berg ) was a German civil engineer for hydraulic engineering and railway construction as well as a municipal building officer in Emden , Bremen and Hanover.

biography

family

Berg was the son of Senator Adolph Ferdinand Berg (born January 1, 1795 in Dingelbe ; † January 3, 1869 in Göttingen) and Katharine (Rena) Auguste Eberhardt (born March 27, 1804 in Grone ; † August 20, 1872 in Göttingen ). In April 1851 he married Agneta Tholen (born October 1, 1833 in Emden), a daughter of the businessman and senator Albert Tholen (born February 8, 1802 in Emden; † October 13, 1879 ibid) and granddaughter of the businessman Claas Tholen (born September 9 , 1802) April 1767 in Emden; † March 26, 1846 in Emden). Aiko Schmidt: Berg, Theodor Friederich Rudolph. (see web links)

education and profession

Kragenhofbrücke of the Hanover Southern Railway near Kassel
Wood engraving from the Illstrirten Zeitung from 1856

Water tower on the Werder in Bremen, 1871–1873

Elevated water reservoir on Lindener Berg , 1876–1878

After attending grammar school , Rudolf Berg completed a technical course at the University of Göttingen and from 1843 to 1846 at the Hanover Polytechnic .

In the initial phase of the railway construction , Berg was discontinued by the Electorate of Hesse in 1846 . In 1847 he did preparatory work for the Hanover-Kassel connection, the route of the Hanover Southern Railway .
In 1848/1849 he passed the first and second state exams for construction in Hanover .

In 1850 Berg was appointed city architect in Emden, where he married in 1951. In 1851 he became a "real local member of the Natural Research Society of 1814 in Emden " and in October 1851 he was an honorary lecturer of the association, for which he was only active as a corresponding honorary member from October 1857 , because from 1857 he was again for the Royal Hanover State Railways worked.

In 1860 Berg was appointed director of hydraulic engineering in Bremen, where important hydraulic and bridge structures were built under his leadership , including a water lift (1871) and buildings for the Langwedeler-Uelzener Bahn . Berg was appointed senior building officer there in 1872.

In 1873, Berg became the technical director of the Hanover-Altenbeken Railway Company .

A major water shortage in the summer of 1874 helped Berg to make another professional change: After the Hanoverian city architect Ludwig Droste had died, the position of city planning officer was created for Hanover and Berg was the first to be elected to this position in 1875. Although he was a member of the city's magistrate , he did not have full voting rights in the votes of the college . Berg's main task was primarily to renew the city's water supply. For this purpose he created the Ricklingen waterworks and, from 1876 to 1878, the elevated water tank on the Lindener Berg . The architect Otto Wilsdorff contributed to the design of both buildings . Together, the two created the first modern Hanover water pipeline.

Work (incomplete)

buildings

• 1871: "Wasserhebewerk" in Bremen
• 1871–1873: Water tower on the Werder in Bremen (architecture by Johann Georg Poppe , listed )
• 1876–1877: Friederikenstift in Hanover (architecture by Heinrich Wegener )
• 1876–1878: elevated water reservoir on the Lindener Berg (architecture by Otto Wilsdorff , under monument protection)

Fonts

• Reduction tables of the new north German federal measure in the Bremen, Prussian, Hanover, Oldenburg and English length, area and body measure and this measure in the north German federal measure according to the law of August 17, 1868. Bremen 1869.

literature

• Klaus Siegner: Architect biographies . In: Harold Hammer-Schenk , Günther Kokkelink (eds.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxon architecture in the nineteenth century. (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ) Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , p. 567.
• Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Lindener Berg. In: Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.): City of Hanover, Part 2. (= Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , Architectural Monuments in Lower Saxony , Volume 10.2.) Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 118 f., as well as Linden-Süd , in annex : List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological preservation of monuments), status July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation
• Herbert Mundhenke : 100 years of municipal building management. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Volume 29 (1975), pp. 1-88.
• Helmut Knocke : Berg, Theodor F. Rudolph. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 51 and more often. ( limited preview for Google Books )
• Helmut Knocke: Berg, Theodor F. Rudolph. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 59.

Web links

Commons : Rudolph Berg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Aiko Schmidt: Berg, Theodor Friederich Rudolph. ( online ) on the website of the Natural Research Society of Emden from 1814
• Andreas Andrew-Bornemann (private): Lindener Berggasthaus | Linden high water tank | Stadium on Lindener Berg , historical postcards , etc. a. with the water tank on the Lindener Berg

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Helmut Knocke: Berg, Theodor F. Rudolph. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 59.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Aiko Schmidt: Berg, Theodor Friederich Rudolph. (see web links)
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Klaus Siegner: Architect biographies ... (see literature).
4. ↑ Note: According to Aiko Schmidt (see web links), Berg held the rank of master builder in Bremen in 1857, then in 1859 - again in Emden - worked as a "railway construction inspector".
5. ↑ Note: According to Aiko Schmidt, Berg only became “Construction Director” in Bremen in 1860
6. ↑ Note: Aiko Schmidt accidentally called it "Altenburger Eisenbahn".
7. ↑ Note: According to Aiko Schmidt, Berg was appointed "Oberbaurat" in 1875 and was the first head of the newly formed municipal building authority in Hanover.
8. ↑ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen : Am Lindener Berge 27. In: Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon . P. 82.
9. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
10. ^ Karl-Heinz Grotjahn: Friederikenstift. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 193.
11. ↑ Title preview