Theodor Heidegger
Theodor Heidegger (born January 7, 1834 - † May 8, 1914 in Cologne ) was a German architect .
Life
Theodor Heidegger was a son of the Talmud teacher Isaias Heidegger from Fürth . He studied mathematics and passed the state examination in Munich . Then he worked as an engineer. In 1890 he became a building officer. Among other things, he was involved in the construction of the railway line from Prussia to St. Petersburg and in the construction of the Suez Canal .
From 1871 he was a member of the State Building Administration of Alsace-Lorraine . Retired as a secret senior building officer and district building inspector, he was still mayor of Metz in 1908 . That year he moved from Prison Street 25 in Metz to Hülchrather Street 1 in Cologne, where he spent the later years of his life.
Theodor Heidegger was awarded the Order of the Crown III. Class excellent. He was a member of the architects and engineers association .
Heidegger was with Friederike Heidegger, geb. Steinert, married. This survived him by four years. The couple's grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Cologne-Deutz .
It is not known whether the businessman Emil Heidegger, who moved to Cologne at about the same time as Theodor and Friederike Heidegger, was a son of the couple.
Heidegger's son-in-law Alfred Baumgarten was the Reich Railway Director and the inventor of the official course book for the Reich . He was also director of the Transport and Construction Museum in Berlin , where he designed the exhibition for the 100th anniversary of the invention of the railroad. Baumgarten, who was on leave or forcibly retired for “racial reasons”, emigrated to England in 1939.
Works
- Theodor Heidegger: Article Lothringen, in: The farmhouse in the German Empire and in its border areas, ed. from the Association of German Architects and Engineers' Associations, Dresden 1905/06, Reprint Augsburg 2000, pp. 362–363.
literature
- Wolfram Hagspiel: Cologne and its Jewish architects. Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7616-2294-0 , p. 315.
Web links
- Historical register of architects at www.kmkbuecholdt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jim G. Tobias, By Train Through Time , October 21, 2010, from www.hagalil.com , accessed on May 17, 2016.
- ↑ Hagspiel 2010, p. 314.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heidegger, Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Architect and mayor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1834 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1914 |
| Place of death | Cologne |