Electricity management

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The electricity management was an institution in Prussia that was dedicated to making large rivers navigable and later also to flood protection .

Already in the instruction for the upper presidents of December 31, 1825 (§2, no. 4) these u. a. the direct administration of the power structures in the Prussian provinces was transferred. Power management authorities were set up to carry out this task. So was z. B. In 1866 the Elb-Stromauverwaltung established in Magdeburg , whose first director until 1880 was Theodor Kozlowski . There was also the Rheinstrom- (with seat in Koblenz ), Weichselstrom- (in Danzig ) and Oderstrombauverwaltung (in Breslau ) u. a.

In 1883, the tasks of the electricity construction administration were amended by the "Law on electricity construction administration" of August 20, 1883.

After the flood disasters of the 1880s and 1890s, special offices were set up in Prussia to investigate the hydrological conditions on the rivers relevant to flooding:

  • 1891 Office for main leveling and water level observations
  • 1892 Office of the committee for the investigation of water level conditions in the river areas particularly exposed to the risk of flooding (in short: Prussian water committee ). The head of the office was Hermann Keller .

The most important result of the work of these offices were the monographs on the great rivers of Prussia , which are still valuable today :

which were issued by the responsible electricity construction authorities (at Reimer in Berlin) "on the basis of the highest decree of February 28, 1892".

literature

  • The determination of normal profiles for the Elbe from the Saxon-Prussian border to Geesthacht with regard to the requirements to be met for shipping . On the basis of the observation results obtained up to August 1884, processed by the Royal Elbe River Construction Administration in Magdeburg. Magdeburg, Baensch 1885
  • Annual hydrological reports from the Elbe for 1891–1901 . From the Royal Elbe River Construction Administration in Magdeburg. Magdeburg, Baensch jun. Vlg. 1893-1903.
  • Notices from the Oderstrombauverwaltung about the structures, the water levels and the navigation conditions in the Oder area . Breslau, Lampner & Schmidt from 1897.
  • The water level movements of the Vistula and Nogat . Compiled according to the official records by the Vistula River Administration in Gdansk. 1896/1910 (1911).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Oder River, its river basin and its most important tributaries.
  2. ↑ The Elbe river, its river basin and its most important tributaries.
  3. ↑ Memel, Vistula Pregel- and electricity, their river basins and its main tributaries.
  4. ↑ Weser and Ems, their river basins and their most important tributaries.