Ewald Genzmer

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Ewald Genzmer

Ewald Genzmer (born July 2, 1856 in Boggusch, Marienwerder district , † April 1, 1932 in Dresden ) was a German civil engineer , town planner and university professor .

Life

family

Genzmer was a son of the manor owner Julius Genzmer (1821–1900) and his wife Auguste Genzmer nee. Reschke (1829-1866). His brother was the painter Berthold Genzmer (1858–1927). Genzmer was married to Marie geb. Paxmann (1860–1897), both had two sons and two daughters, including Walther Genzmer and Hertha Genzmer . In his second marriage, he was married to Elisabeth Maquet (1868–1944) from 1900; from this marriage came a daughter.

After graduating from high school in Dortmund in 1876, Ewald Genzmer studied at the Berlin Building Academy . During his studies he became a member of the Academic Association Motiv . In 1881 he passed the 1st state examination as government building supervisor ( trainee lawyer ) and in 1885 he passed the 2nd state examination as government building master ( assessor ) with distinction and received a state travel grant . From 1885 he worked in the city expansion of Cologne under Josef Stübben .

From 1892 to 1904 he was the city ​​planner in Halle (Saale) . During this time the city developed towards the north ( Pauluskirche , Zoologischer Garten ). At the turn of the century, the historicist imperial quarter, which is now called the Paulusviertel after the Pauluskirche, emerged radially around the Hasenberg . The water tower north , visible from afar when entering Halle from the north , was built between 1897 and 1899 according to plans by Ewald Genzmer and Heinrich Walbe .

From 1904 to 1911 Genzmer was a full professor of urban planning and urban civil engineering at the Technical University of Danzig . His later successor, Karl August Hoepfner, worked as his assistant in Danzig in 1909/1910 . Genzmer moved to the Technical University of Dresden in 1911 and taught there from 1911 to 1925 urban civil engineering and elements of engineering. Together with the Dresden city planning officer Paul Wolf , he led the seminar for urban planning at the Technical University of Dresden.

In addition to his work as a university lecturer, Genzmer designed development plans for urban expansion and local drainage plans for cities at home and abroad. The First World War prevented the execution of the order already placed for Saint Petersburg . As one of the early representatives of modern urban planning at the interface with urban civil engineering, he particularly included drainage in the service of higher-level urban planning; for Dresden he designed, among other things, a metro network project .

Genzmer lived in Radebeul in 1915 , in the villa of the chamber singer Lorenzo Riese (Riesestrasse 6), who died in 1907 . According to his will, he was buried in Halle's Stadtgottesacker , his grave is in the inner field II.

Awards

Water tower north in Halle

Fonts

  • The city streets. two volumes, A. Bergstraesser, 1897.
  • Urban civil engineering, I, issue 1. 1897.
  • Guide through Halle ad S. and its state and municipal institutions and institutions. Hall 1903. (with Oskar Förtsch )
  • Sewerage in small and medium-sized towns. three gangs, 1912.
  • Zoning plans. In: M. Foerster (Hrsg.): Taschenbuch für Bauingenieure. 1914.
  • Development plan and building regulations. German Publishing House for People's Welfare, Dresden 1917. (with Heinrich Küster )
  • The drainage of the cities. In: Handbuch der Ingenieurwissenschaften , III. Part, Volume 4. 1924.
  • Urban development seminar of the Technical University of Dresden, Saxon working group of the Free German Academy of Urban Development. Verlag "Der Zirkel", 1924. (with Paul Wolf )
  • How do you draw up local drainage plans? three volumes, 1930/1931.

literature

Web links

Commons : Ewald Genzmer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The different information given by Dorit Petschel in Die Professoren der TU Dresden 1828–2003 on p. 265 for neighboring Radebeul as the place of death is incorrect according to the digitized death register of Dresden.
  2. ↑ The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 31.
  3. ^ Address book of Dresden and suburbs , edition 1915, part VI, p. 429, p. 456.
  4. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 21, 1901, No. 69 (of August 31, 1901), p. 422.
personal data
SURNAME Genzmer, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German town planner and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Boggusch, Marienwerder district
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1932
Place of death Dresden