Wilhelm Muttray

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Wilhelm Otto Muttray (born December 12, 1850 in Marggrabowa , Oletzko district , Masuria; † January 14, 1922 in Hanover ) was a hydraulic engineering director.

Life

As the son of the district court director Friedrich Wilhelm Muttray (1814–1886) Wilhelm attended the royal high school in Lyck . When his father was transferred to Tilsit , he switched to the Royal Litthau Provincial School , where he graduated from high school at Easter 1870. He studied construction at the Technical University of Charlottenburg and passed the first state examination in 1875. He then initially worked as a site manager in Bromberg . Then he came to Tilsit as a hydraulic engineering officer to help build the Memel river . After he had passed the master builder examination in 1880, he was transferred to the Brieg an der Oder hydraulic engineering inspection .

In April 1881 he married Olga Emilie Helene Boy , who had four children: Emilie Olga Elisabeth (1882–1887), Johanna Helene Margarethe (* 1885), Johann Friedrich Wilhelm (* 1886; died 1916 in Pierrepont (Meurthe-et-Moselle ) ) and Georg (* 1894). Two children survived him.

In 1884 he was transferred to Opole as head of weir and lock construction . Finally, he came to Fürstenwalde / Spree for two years to build the Oder-Spree Canal , which was the largest construction project in the Kingdom of Prussia before the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal was built . This was followed by a three-year employment in Charlottenburg with the Spree regulation and a second transfer to Opole to the buildings for the Oder canalization with the construction of the port facilities in Cosel .

From 1892 Muttray was head of the hydraulic engineering inspection in Tilsit , where he drove the expansion of the Memel and at the same time held the important office of dike captain due to the annual spring flood of the river . In 1897 he was appointed government and building advisor to the government in Arnsberg in Westphalia.

In 1898 Wilhelm Muttray was appointed director of the Weser River construction in Hanover, where he devoted himself to the expansion and development of "his Weser " for 23 years . Under his leadership, the draft and the partial implementation of the flood control plan, the expanded expansion of the river, the dam and power plant in Dörverden , the Edertal dam near Hemfurth , the Diemel dam with its power plants and the dam and power plant near Hann. Münden .

When in 1919 the Weserbaudirektion was merged with the sewerage directorate, whose work area stretched from the Ems to Hanover, Muttray was appointed first head of this new waterway directorate. Here he served the interests of shipping, the national culture by regulating the water level of the rivers and supplying large areas with electricity until he retired on April 1, 1921.

He died at the same time as his friend, Ministerial Director Leo Sympher .

Publications

  • with Wilhelm Soldan: The expansion of the Weser to low water . 1919.
  • with Franz K. Visarius: Memorandum on the expanded expansion of the Weser from Münden (Hann.) to the state border with Bremen and the Aller from km 94.3 to the mouth of km 117.1 . 1916.

Awards

Incomplete list

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung No. 10, from February 1, 1922, p. 56
  2. ↑ Muttray, Wilhelm . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
  3. ↑ http://gedbas.genealogy.net/datenblatt.jsp?nr=201180
  4. ↑ Visarius was a building officer and hydraulic engineering inspector in Birnbaum, later at the waterways directorate in Hanover
  5. ^ TU Braunschweig ( Memento from June 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Muttray, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muttray, Wilhelm Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hydraulic engineering director, Weserstromb building director (since 1898)
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Marggrabowa , Mazury
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1922
Place of death Hanover