Wilhelm Riepe

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Wilhelm Heinrich Gustav Riepe (born April 10, 1874 in Hücker ; † January 2, 1955 in Wiesbaden ) was a German engineer , manufacturer and politician .

Life

Wilhelm Riepe attended high school in Herford, which he graduated from high school in 1893. From the summer semester of 1893 to the winter semester of 1895/1896 he studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Hanover . In 1895 he became a member of the Corps Macaria, later Corps Macaro-Visurgia, in Hanover . In the summer semester of 1896 he continued his studies at the Technical University of Munich , returned to Hanover for three more semesters in the winter semester of 1896/1897 and after a further semester at the Technical University of Darmstadt completed his studies as a Dipl.-Ing. civil engineering.

After his first job with a building authority in Hamburg until autumn 1899, he did his military service as a one-year volunteer with the 1st field artillery regiment "Prince Regent Luitpold" of the Bavarian Army in Munich until autumn 1900 . Subsequently, in 1900 he entered the civil service as a government construction manager . In 1903 he became the second after passing the state exam Regierungsbaumeister the road and hydraulic compartment appointed. After his first brief activities in Merseburg , Halle an der Saale and Elbing and in 1905 temporarily resigning from civil service, he was promoted to the state building council in Gdansk in 1911 .

At the First World War he took as a reserve officer , most recently as captain of the Reserve and commander of a field artillery - battalion , part and was awarded the Iron Cross awarded II and First Class..

In 1921 Wilhelm Riepe finally resigned from his civil service and became director, managing director and co-owner of the Witt & Svendsen agricultural machinery factory founded by his father-in-law, who died in 1910 . In 1922 the Corps Baltica Danzig awarded him the ribbon. From 1926 to 1927 he was Vice President of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig . In 1936 he retired and lived in Wiesbaden until his death.

literature

  • Hans Nehlep (Ed.): Album Academicum des Corps Baltica-Borussia Danzig 1860-1970. Berlin 1973.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 23rd year 1903, No. 103 (from December 26th, 1903) (online) , p. 645 (section official communications ).
  2. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 24, 1904, No. 3 (from January 9, 1904) (online) , p. 13 (section official communications ).
  3. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 24, 1904, No. 37 (of May 7, 1904) (online) , p. 233 (section Official Communications ).
  4. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 25, 1905, No. 99 (from December 9, 1905) (online) , p. 614 (section official communications ).
personal data
SURNAME Riepe, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riepe, Wilhelm Heinrich Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, manufacturer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Hücker
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1955
Place of death Wiesbaden