Wilhelm Germelmann

Carl Louis Wilhelm Germelmann (born February 21, 1850 in Wollershausen , † July 5, 1919 in Berlin ) was a German civil engineer ( hydraulic engineering , coastal and port construction).

Germelmann attended the Realgymnasium in Clausthal and studied civil engineering at the Polytechnic in Hanover from 1867 to 1872 with Conrad Wilhelm Hase . In Hanover he became a member of the Corps Saxonia . In 1870/71 he took part in the Franco-German War as a volunteer , then passed the construction manager examination in 1873 and the second state examination in 1878. He then worked under the architect Ernst Dircksen in the construction of the Berlin light rail system, was a hydraulic engineering inspector in Emden (1880 to 1885 involved in the Ems-Jade Canal , 1881 construction management of groynes on Borkum , 1885 to 1887 municipal sewer system in Emden, boiler lock ( Emden) ) and from 1888 in Berlin. There he was in charge of the construction management of the hydraulic structures (bridges, weirs, locks) on the Spree on the Mühlendamm, designed by senior construction director Adolf Wiebe . In 1893 he became government and building advisor in Stettin, but from 1896 back in Berlin in the building department of the Ministry of Public Works. In 1898 he became a lecturer and in 1903 a senior building officer. In 1916 he retired.

He was the first chairman of the German Committee for Reinforced Concrete from its establishment from 1907 to 1919. He was also chairman of the Reich Office for Cement from 1916 to 1919.

In 1907 he became a full member of the Academy of Building in Berlin. He was a member of the Technical Higher Examination Office in Berlin and of the Berlin Architects' Association, temporarily as a member of the board.

He was involved in port construction in Sassnitz on Rügen for the Sassnitz- Trelleborg railway ferry and in regulating the Vistula and the Oder .

Fonts

Negotiations on the project to utilize Thuringia's hydropower in connection with a large shipping route North Sea-Weser-Werra-Main-Danube on July 14, 1917 in Eisenach, Hameln: CW Niemeyer, 1917
The waterways of the United States of America in the Mississippi and Great Lakes area, Berlin: W. Ernst & Sohn, 1913

literature

Obituary in the central gazette of the building administration. 39th year. 1919, No. 58, p. 337

Web links

Biography , on a website for Conrad Wilhelm Hase by Günther Kokkelin, Maria Lemke-Kokkeling, 2018

Individual evidence

^ Corps Saxonia Hannover (Ed.): History of the Corps Saxonia from 50th to 100th. Years of its existence (1902-1952) . Alois Wolpers printer, Hanover 1955.

personal data
SURNAME	Germelmann, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Germelmann, Carl Louis Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 21, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wollershausen
DATE OF DEATH	July 5, 1919
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Corps Saxonia Hannover (Ed.): History of the Corps Saxonia from 50th to 100th. Years of its existence (1902-1952) . Alois Wolpers printer, Hanover 1955.