Werner Kümmel (civil engineer)

Werner Heinrich Ernst Kümmel (born January 24, 1834 in Hanover , † July 19, 1893 in Chicago ) was a German civil engineer .

Life

Werner Kümmel studied from 1850 to 1853 at the Polytechnic School in Hanover , a. a. with Conrad Wilhelm Hase . In Hanover he was a co-founder of the Corps Saxonia. After various positions he was director of the municipal gasworks in Hildesheim from 1860 to 1873 . In 1873 he became director of the gas and water works in Altona , and he also worked as a freelance civil engineer.

Kümmel was internationally recognized for building plants to supply large cities with clean drinking water . As a result, Altona was spared the devastating cholera epidemic in nearby Hamburg .

Werner Kümmel died during a visit to Chicago for the 1893 World's Fair . He was the father of the Heidelberg ENT doctor Werner Kümmel and the art historian Otto Kümmel as well as the grandfather of the physicist Hermann Kümmel and the theologian Werner Georg Kümmel .

Fonts

The water art in Altona. Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1861 ( digitized in the Google book search).

Web links

Dataset on Werner Kümmel in the database of architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) , last accessed on May 29, 2012

Individual evidence

^ Corps Saxonia Hannover (Ed.): History of the Corps Saxonia up to the 50th year of its existence (1852-1902) . Göhmannsche Buchdruckerei u. Verlagbuchhandlung, Hanover 1902, p. 170 .

personal data
SURNAME	Caraway, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kümmel, Werner Heinrich Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 24, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	July 19, 1893
Place of death	Chicago

[1] Corps Saxonia Hannover (Ed.): History of the Corps Saxonia up to the 50th year of its existence (1852-1902) . Göhmannsche Buchdruckerei u. Verlagbuchhandlung, Hanover 1902, p. 170 .