Karl Gustav Brescius

Guido Brescius ( born March 25, 1824 in Budissin (now Bautzen ), † December 4, 1864 in Pirna ) was a German railway engineer.

Life

Guido Brescius was a son of the royal Saxon Customs Council Karl Gustav Brescius.

He studied from 1839-1844 at the Dresden Technical School (now TU Dresden). Among his teachers was Professor Andreas Schubert.

First practical experience as a railway engineer Brescius collected in 1844 as a volunteer in the construction of the Saxon- Silesian railway from Dresden to Görlitz. During construction of the Saxon-Bohemian railway (Dresden - floor Bach, 1847) Brescius was already responsible as a division engineer himself for the section in the area of ​​Königstein.

On 27/12/1859 he married Cora Gabriele, daughter of the late 1853 District Judge Pfennigwerth.

Albert railway

In 1853 Guido Brescius signed the employment contract as a machinist and engineer Albert Bahn AG. Thus, it was responsible for the planning and construction of the railway line Dresden- Tharandt and the Low Hermsdorfer carbon branch line and the branch line Hänichener carbon.

With the construction of Hänichener carbon branch line Brescius ventured a line management with artificial length development to overcome the height difference between Plauensche reason and Gitterseer plateau, with slopes of 1:40 used at a in the pure friction mode ( adhesion railway ) track and 85 m radius of curvature on a main track with standard gauge. It was 1856, the first mountain railway in Germany and the second mountain railway in Europe to the Semmering Railway in Austria. For this reason, the Saxon King John of coal train was justifiably nicknamed Saxon Semmering Railway. The Hänichener carbon branch line is still present as a technical monument Windbergbahn part.

End of life

The disagreements with the supervisory board of the Albert Bahn AG and study trips to England had a negative effect on Guido Brescius ' health. He died on December 4, 1864 at the age of 40 years at the asylum on the sun stone in Pirna. He was Buried in the Old Cemetery in Dresden Anne.