Heinrich Kirchweger

Johann Gottfried Heinrich Kirchweger ( born June 12, 1809 in Stettin, † January 18, 1899 in Hannover ) was a German railway engineer.

Life

After attending the trade school in Berlin Kirchweger worked at the industrialist Georg Henschel in Kassel. In 1838 he became technical manager at the Leipzig- Dresden Railway, later in the Saxon- Bavarian Railway. In 1843 he began working at the newly founded Royal Hanoverian State Railways. Here he was responsible for the engineering, operational and workshop service and for vehicle procurement. Through him, a workshop organized beings and a uniform driving service originated. He carried on locomotives, the feed water by means of Kirchweger - Abdampfkondensators and made for the commissioning of built after a model by Thomas Russell Crampton and Johann Friedrich Ludwig Wöhlert Hanoverian normal locomotives. In addition, he drew up plans for built by Georg Egestorff machines and pumps the Hanoverian river water art. After the Kingdom of Hanover was annexed by Prussia and the Hanoverian State Railways was dissolved, followed by admixing Kirchweger against his will to Saarbruecken. He then retired from the civil service back, briefly worked in a car factory and then returned as a civil engineer to Hanover.

For his services in the railway sector, he has received numerous awards, he was among other things, in 1846 an honorary citizen of Hanover ( together with Karl Karmarsch, Moritz Rühlmann and Friedrich Heeren ) and Knight of the Hanoverian Guelphs Order, the Saxon Albrechts- Orden and the Swedish Vasa Order. Kirchweger died at the age of 89 years in Hanover. His grave is located in the arcades from the city cemetery Engesohde.

The 1911 scale in Hanover- Vahrenwald Darwin Square was renamed in 1934 in Heinrich Kirchweger Square.