Franz Andreas Meyer

After attending the private boys' school operated by Elise Averdieck, he switched to the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums.

After completing his studies, in 1858, he worked for Hase for a year, then joined the Royal Hanoverian State Railways, where he participated in building the Bremen to Bremerhaven line.

Three years later, he appointed the Technical Manager, under the Director of hydraulic engineering, Johannes Dalmann [de].

He hired several architects, including Wilhelm Emil Meerwein, Bernhard Georg Hanssen, Hugo Stammann and Gustav Zinnow, to produce the detailed specifications.

Following the cholera epidemic [de] of 1892, he was able to create drainage and sewage systems that had been proposed by William Lindley in the late 1850s, but rejected by the Hamburg Parliament.