Rudolph Haack
Rudolph Haack (born October 17, 1833 in Wolgast , † December 12, 1909 in Eberswalde ; full name Carl Otto Rudolph Haack ) was a German shipbuilding engineer . From 1856 he worked as a chief engineer and later as director of the Stettiner Vulcan shipyard (until 1857: Fruchtchtenicht & Brock ), on which, among other things, the first ironclad ship built at a private German shipyard in 1873 with SMS Prussia .
Life
Rudolph Haack was born in Wolgast in 1833 as the son of a master carpenter and the daughter of a shipbuilder. After finishing school, he trained as a ship carpenter at the Erich & Lübke shipyard there . He later attended the trade school in Stettin and the shipbuilding school in Grabow near Stettin, the only technical college for shipbuilding in Germany at the time. After a stay abroad in England , he found a job with a shipbuilder in Damgarten .
In 1856 he went back to Stettin and became a senior engineer at the company Fruchtchtenicht & Brock , from which the Vulcan shipyard emerged a year later . Under his leadership as director of the shipyard, around 150 ships were built, including the SMS Preußen, the first armored ship built at a private German shipyard in 1873 , and further warships for the Imperial Navy , but also for the naval forces of the German Empire . In 1887 Haack moved to Berlin and worked as a recognized expert on naval and commercial shipping, as a teacher at the Oberseeamt and as a member of the Prussian Academy of Civil Engineering. He also planned the Henrichenburg ship lift on the Dortmund-Ems Canal , which was completed in 1899 . He was also a city councilor in Berlin-Charlottenburg for several years . In 1902 Haack moved to Eberswalde , where he died in 1909.
Appreciation and memory
Haack was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle for the launch of SMS Preußen . On the occasion of the completion of the Henrichenburg ship lift , he was awarded the honorary title of building officer . He was also the holder of the Imperial Chinese Order of the Double Dragon .
At the shaft lock in today's Waltrop Lock Park , which was built to relieve the Henrichenburg ship lift in the Dortmund-Ems Canal near Waltrop, which was built with his assistance as an expert , there is a stone portrait sculpture in his honor.
literature
- Jochen Brennecke : Haack, Carl Otto Rudolph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 366 ( digitized version ).
- Klemens Grube: Haack, Rudolph (1833–1909) . In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern . Volume 2 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series V, Volume 48.2). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22541-4 , pp. 118–121.
- Eckhard Schinkel, Lars U. Scholl (eds.): Rudolph Haack (1833–1909). Industrial pioneer under three emperors. Verlag HM Hausschild, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89757-471-7 .
- Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 214-216.
- Eckard Schinkel: Rudolph Haack (1833-1909) and "the problem of the 'constructing' emperor . In: Technikgeschichte, Vol. 77 (2010), H. 2, pp. 95–112.
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolph Haack in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haack, Rudolph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haack, Carl Otto Rudolph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German shipbuilding engineer and director of the Szczecin Vulcan shipyard |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolgast |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 1909 |
| Place of death | Eberswalde |