Ernst August Dircksen (31 May 1831 in Danzig – 11 May 1899 in Erfurt) was a German architect.

Life

Ernst Dircksen studied at the Berlin Bauakademie. In 1867, he relocated to Upper Silesia and soon became an expert for building railway bridges and railway lines. In 1882, Dircksen was sent to Cologne to redesign and expand the railway lines there; in 1890 he relocated to Erfurt.

Ernst Dircksen

In 1902, a memorial for Dircksen, made by Ludwig Brunow, was erected near the station Friedrichstraße in Berlin. The memorial was later destroyed.

Ernst Dircksen

Works

Bridge at Dirschau across the Weichsel

Bridge over the Rhine in Cologne

Station in Frankfurt (Oder) Berlin Ringbahn Rail line from Remilly to Pont-à-Mousson Railway lines for the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn Gesellschaft Planning and site management for the Berlin Stadtbahn Multiple railway lines in the Cologne area New lines around Erfurt

Ernst Dircksen

References

1831 births

1899 deaths

German civil engineers

Engineers from Gdańsk

People from the Province of Prussia

German people in rail transport

19th-century German architects

Engineers from the German Empire