Wilhelm Weitbrecht

Wilhelm Weitbrecht

Wilhelm Weitbrecht (born April 2, 1860 in Esslingen am Neckar , † December 11, 1931 in Stuttgart ) was a German geodesist and university lecturer at the Württemberg technical college for surveying in Stuttgart.

Live and act

After his state examination for surveyors in Wuerttemberg in 1880, Weitbrecht started as an assistant for geodetic exercises in the geometer technical school of the Stuttgart building trade school . At the same time he studied geodesy at the Technical University of Stuttgart . Subsequently, he was initially appointed lecturer at the Geometerschule and finally in 1893 appointed professor and main teacher for practical geometry there.

Works (selection)

• Paperback book for marking out the curves on roads and railways , Leipzig: Kröner 1924.
• Surveying textbook , Stuttgart: Konrad Wittwer 1910.
• Adjustment calculation using the least squares method (= Göschen Collection 302), Leipzig: Göschen 1906.
• Practical geometry, guidelines for teaching at technical schools and for introducing land surveyors to their profession and for use by practically active technicians and farmers , Stuttgart: Konrad Wittwer 1906.
• About the training of geometers in Württemberg , in: Zeitschrift für Vermessungswesen XIX (1890), pp. 65-79 ( archive.org ).

literature

• Frank Reichert: Training, testing and ordering public surveyors in Württemberg 100 years ago . In: Forum , magazine of the Federation of German Surveying Engineers (BDVI), issue 4/2019, pp. 23–26 ( PDF )