Theodor Rümelin

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Theodor Rümelin (born May 20, 1877 in Besigheim ; † November 9, 1920 in Munich ) was a German engineer (especially for hydraulic engineering ) and the father of the German hydraulic engineer Burkhart Rümelin .

Life

Theodor Hermann Benjamin Rümelin was born as the son of Professor Theodor Christoph Rümelin and his wife Marie Wilhelmine, nee Zeller of the old Wuerttemberg civil servants and scholars of the Rümelin family . After graduating from the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart , he became an officer in the 125th Infantry Regiment in Stuttgart, but retired from military service in 1898 due to a foot injury. After studying civil engineering at the Technical University of Stuttgart from 1898 to 1902, he worked for a construction company in the expansion of the Mannheim industrial port and the construction of the Rhine bridge near Ruhrort . In 1903 he married Anna Pfleiderer, who gave birth to four children between 1904 and 1916. In 1906 he passed the government master builder examination in Stuttgart. Then he worked for a construction company in Munich as an independent construction manager of the later Old Uppenbornwerk mentioned hydroelectric power plant in Moosburg active, after the Bavarian Stickstoffwerke the expansion of hydroelectric power plant Trostberg on the Alz . The knowledge gained from this flowed into his dissertation at the Technical University of Dresden "How does flowing water move?" and his work "Wasserkraftanlagen", also published in 1913. From October 1913 to the beginning of 1918, Rümelin was an assistant in the hydraulic engineering laboratory of the Technical University of Berlin , but was also able to produce various designs for hydropower plants at home and abroad. He also gave classes in mathematics and physics at the Kadettenanstalt in Berlin-Lichterfelde.

Theodor Rümelin died at the age of only 43 after a brief severe illness on November 9, 1920 in Munich. The establishment of the Mittlere Isar AG intended for the implementation of the project and the official start of construction took place two months after his death.

The Rümelinstrasse in Munich directly at the Oberföhring weir was named after him.

Hydraulic engineering projects at home and abroad from 1917

Activity for the Middle Isar Canal

In February 1918 he was appointed managing director of the Mittlere Isar GmbH , founded by various banks and industrialists at the instigation of the Bavarian state , with the task of creating the design of the Mittlere-Isar-Kanal . The project comprised a side canal between Munich and Moosburg, a weir in Oberföhring to divert the canal, five hydropower plants with a total of 110,000 HP on the canal and two storage basins with a capacity of 32 and 3 million m³ respectively. His design also envisaged lowering the groundwater of the 30,000 hectare Erdinger Moos to gain new arable land and around 30 fish ponds for the final cleaning of the pre-treated Munich wastewater at today's Ismaninger reservoir . He was able to complete this extensive planning at the beginning of 1919. They then passed into the possession of the Bavarian state, which awarded the first construction lot in April 1919 to combat unemployment. As a member of the directorate for the ## state expansion of the Middle Isar ##, Theodor Rümelin was responsible for project management and site management.

Publications

  • Founder and participation in the magazine WasserWirtschaft
  • On June 19, 1913 dissertation How does flowing water move? at the Technical University of Dresden (Dr.-Ing), 2nd edition 1919 published by Zahn & Jaentsch / Dresden
  • 3 volumes Wasserkraftanlagen , Göschen Collection in Berlin and Leipzig in May 1913; 2nd edition 1919 in 1 book.
  • 35 publications in professional journals from 1909 to 1920

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SURNAME Rümelin, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Besigheim
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1920
Place of death Munich