Wilhelm Clauss

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Heinrich Wilhelm August Clauss (born August 1, 1830 in Thune , † March 26, 1896 in Braunschweig ) was a German mechanical engineer and railway director.

Neo-Gothic pressure tower of the first waterworks in the city of Braunschweig

Life

The son of a manor owner attended the secondary school until 1847 and then the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig. There he studied mechanical engineering until 1850 .

Railway system

Clauss subsequently worked in the ducal workshops of the Braunschweigische Staatsbahn as well as in companies in Nordhausen and from 1851 in Linden as a machine designer and foreman. In 1858 he got a permanent job as a mechanical engineer at the Braunschweigische Staatsbahn, which was transferred to the private Braunschweigische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in 1870 . From 1871 Clauss was responsible as chief engineer for the management of the entire workshop area. The Braunschweigische Eisenbahn was sold to Prussia in 1885. Clauss was initially a consultant for the temporarily appointed Royal Prussian Railway Directorate in Braunschweig, before he became director of the newly established Braunschweigische Landeseisenbahngesellschaft in 1886 . In 1887 he was awarded the title of Ducal Railway Director.

In 1871 Clauss contributed financially to the establishment of a railway signal construction company. However, due to business and professional overlaps, he had to sell the company. This later became the property of the Brunswick entrepreneur Max Jüdel .

Braunschweig water supply

In the middle of the 19th century, the population growth and increasing industrialization led to unsustainable conditions for the water supply to the city of Braunschweig, which was still influenced by the Middle Ages . A municipal commission established in 1858 entrusted Clauss with drawing up a draft for supplying the city with clean drinking and service water. Together with city planner Carl Tappe , he had the waterworks built in the railway park in 1864/1865 , which supplied clarified and then filtered Oker water in ponds . The waterworks was in operation until 1902. Clauß is responsible for the construction of further waterworks in the Duchy of Braunschweig .

Clauss last lived in Moltkestrasse in Braunschweig. He died in 1896. The supply of the city with Harz water , which he proposed , was not implemented until well after his death, in December 1972.

Fonts (selection)

Clauss published numerous articles in specialist journals and standard railway works, in which he made contributions to the improvement of safety devices for train movements, for example by creating central switch systems .

  • The waterworks of the city of Braunschweig , Schmorl & von Seefeld, Hanover, 1869.
  • About the system, equipment and operation of standard-gauge secondary railways , Hof-Buchdruckerei Julius Krampe, Braunschweig, 1877.
  • On turnout towers and related safety devices for railways: with a special description of the facilities on the Braunschweig lines , Braunschweig, 1878.
  • together with Rudolf Blasius and J. Landauer (eds.): The city of Braunschweig in a hygienic relationship / on behalf of the Association for Public Health Care , Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig, 1890.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Moderhack : Braunschweiger Stadtgeschichte with time table and bibliography. Braunschweig 1997, ISBN 3-87884-050-0 , p. 178.
  2. ↑ Braunschweig address book for the year 1896 : Entry Clauß, Wilhelm, Bahndirector, Moltkestr. 6th
  3. ^ Richard Moderhack : Braunschweiger Stadtgeschichte with time table and bibliography. Braunschweig 1997, ISBN 3-87884-050-0 , p. 315.
personal data
SURNAME Clauss, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clauß, Heinrich Wilhelm August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer and railway director
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuna
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1896
Place of death Braunschweig