Paul Camille von Denis
Paul Camille Denis since 1852 by Denis ( born June 28, 1796 Castle Les Hall at Montier-en -Der, Haute- Marne, † September 3, 1872 in Bad Durkheim ), was an engineer, promoted the construction of railways and was participants of the Hambach Festival.
Life
Paul Camille Denis grew up as a child of the Mainz City Council Peter Denis and visited the Lyceum Louis le Grand in Paris. 1814/15 he studied at the Paris Polytechnic. After graduation, he returned to the Palatinate to his now based in Neustadt father.
From the Bavarian State - to the Palatinate belonged - initially set as an intern, he has been working since March 3, 1816 as Baukondukteur in Germersheim. In 1822 he was promoted as an inspection engineer to Speyer in 1826 as an engineer 1st class to Zweibrücken. Here he was in close contact with the democratic opposition to Frederick pupils, Johann Georg August Wirth, Joseph Savoye and Ferdinand Geib. In a report from the State Police to the Bavarian royal he is - probably erroneously - referred to as the childhood friend and classmate. Founded in 1832, " German pressing and Homeland Association" the Democrats had in the wealthy Paul Camille Denis one of its main financiers. In his personnel records this year, his assets are stated at 300,000 guilders. As the secretary of the " pressing and Fatherland Association ," Georg Eifler, was arrested in August 1832 Paul Camille Denis offers 10,000 guilders deposit.
As a member of the Palatine district administrator, he took part at the Hambach Festival. Under exceeded its powers enabled him then the Bavarian Commissioner General Field Marshal Carl Philipp von Wrede to Rosenheim. On August 1, 1832 signed Paul Camille Denis the Kaiserslautern protest against the Federal decisions of June 28th. This led to a charge of " denigration of the highest state authorities ". Paul Camille Denis responded to the indictment and the threat of displacement in the Isar circle by he applied for unpaid leave for a "technical education trip" to England and America on November 7, 1832.
Railway
After his return, Denis worked as a pioneer in the German railway. He built the 1835 Opened first German railway with steam operation, the Bavarian Ludwig Railway between Nuremberg and Fürth, the Taunus Railway from Frankfurt to Wiesbaden, opened 1839/40, the Munich - Augsburg Railway ( 1838-1840 ) and from 1844 to 1849, the Palatine Ludwig Railway. In the Bavarian Ludwig Railway, he was also responsible for the design and construction of the first German railway carriage, pulled by the locomotive built in England eagle. As a leading expert in railway construction, he continues to bear the responsibility for the construction of the Palatine Maximilian Railway, the railway line Homburg -Zweibrücken ( 1857), the Würzbachbahn and the Assemblies Valley Railway, and from 1856 to 1861 for the Bavarian AG Ostbahnen. Meanwhile, highly recognized, he received in 1852 by Grand Duke Ludwig III. awarded by Hesse and by Rhine, the Knight's Cross of Philip the Magnanimous. In the same year he was charged by the King of Bavaria, Maximilian II in the personal nobility. In 1865, Paul Camille von Denis Chairman of the Planning Commission of the Rhine bridge Mannheim -Ludwigshafen, and shortly thereafter, in 1866, treated at his own request in retirement. He died in 1872 in Bad Durkheim, and was buried in the family grave at the Helen cemetery in Strasbourg.
Honors
The city of Frankfurt am Main named in his honor a several -mile walk along the Taunus railway in Frankfurt -Griesheim. Likewise, it devoted the Palatinate city of Kaiserslautern a street in the western part, parallel to the railway line built by Denis running. The Paul- of - school center in Denis Schiffer city was named after him, as well as a parallel to the former range of the Ludwig railway running residential street in Nuremberg - Bärenschanze.