![]() The son of the bridge engineer Adam Ludwig Bücking and his wife Gertrude, Johann Hermann Bücking was was a German civil engineer and senior construction director in Bremen. He was born on the 9th March 1848 in Cölbe, Marburg , and after attending elementary school in Kassel he studied at the Kassel Polytechnic School. Upon graduating he worked as a railway technician but furthered his studies between 1872-1874 in Berlin, obtaining master in civil engineering. On the 6 october 1875 he married Emilie Christine Charlotte Pöschel in Bremen and began working under Ludwig Franzius in the department of urban construction in Bremen. In 1903 he succeeded Franzius, becoming the director of construction in Bremen, overlooking the expansion of the ports in Bremen and Bremerhaven and the construction of the dam on the river Weser. From 1891 to 1907 he was the Chairman of the Architects and Engineers Association in Bremen. He retired in 1915. The Bückingstraße in the port of Bremen, was named after him. Hermann & EmilieHermann and Emilie had three children
Up until 1907 the family lived on Schönhaussenstraße in Bremen, but in 1907 they moved to Brahmsstraße in the district of Schwachhausen in Bremen, where their son in law Wagner designed the house for them. Hermann Bücking died on December 21, 1926 in Bremen, his wife Emilie died on the 10 March 1932 also in Bremen. Their graves are in the family plot, along with their son Kurt and his family in Friedhof: Riensberg.
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