Friedrich Körte (architect)

Friedrich Körte (born December 24, 1854 in Berlin ; † February 3, 1934 there ) was a German architect whose main activity was in Berlin and the surrounding area.

From 1886 he ran the architecture office Reimer & Körte with Konrad Reimer . The office was successful in the construction of industrial, administrative and residential buildings. Numerous preserved buildings such as the Jewish hospital , the factory halls and the entrance area of ​​the Borsigwerke in Tegel or the Archenhold observatory are listed as historical monuments . Reimer and Körte are also the house architects of the industrialist August Borsig for the execution of many construction contracts for the Borsig company .

Life

Friedrich Körte was one of ten children of the doctor Friedrich Körte (1818–1914) and his wife Marie, b. Thaer (1832-1898). His siblings included the archaeologist Gustav Körte (1852-1917), the surgeon Werner Körte (1853-1937), the painter Martin Körte (1857-1929), the Königsberg mayor Siegfried Körte (1861-1919) and the classical philologist Alfred Körte (1866-1946).

Friedrich Körte studied architecture at the Berlin Building Academy . After successfully completing his studies and first drafts of his own, such as exercises on a wall decoration, one of which is archived in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin, he teamed up with Konrad Reimer. Together they were able to realize more than 20 larger buildings in the Berlin cityscape. Friedrich Körte carried the honorary title of Royal Building Councilor in the 1910s ; his apartment was at Magdeburger Strasse 26 in Wilmersdorf .

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Friedrich Körte was a city ​​councilor in Berlin from 1898 to 1919 . In this function he supported, for example, the construction of social facilities such as an "old people home - institution for hospitalites" in Berlin-Buch by city planning officer Ludwig Hoffmann . Rudolf Virchow also belonged to his circle of friends .

Friedrich and Werner Körte are buried in a family grave in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery .

Buildings of the law firm Reimer and Körte (selection)

→ For a detailed description, see Konrad Reimer Buildings in Berlin and the former surrounding area

The buildings jointly realized range from 1888 to the death of Konrad Reimer in 1914. The following list enables a quick orientation.

image	year	Name of the building	location	Concrete, architectural style, details	source
	1888	Sing-Akademie zu Berlin	Dorotheenstrasse / Strasse Unter den Linden	modification
	1890-1894	Two houses	Carmerstrasse and Grabenstrasse in Zehlendorf
	1896/1897	MAN house (1st VDI house )	Charlottenstrasse 43 at the corner of Mittelstrasse 1 in Mitte	The four-story building was built for the Association of German Engineers (VDI), which set up its headquarters on the second floor. The ground floor and the first floor were used by Dreyfus & Co.'s banking business . In addition, the Belgian Gas Diesel Company , an innkeeper and a porter were housed here. The sculptor Gotthold Riegelmann designed the facade decoration with reference to engineering. The vehicle manufacturer MAN bought the house in 1918 and used it until 1950. During the GDR era, the building was home to the German studies department at Humboldt University . After the fall of the Wall , the MAN Group got the property back. After extensive renovation, its Berlin branch is housed here. The Berlin office of the Afrika-Verein der deutschen Wirtschaft uses additional rooms in the monument.
	1896/1897	1. VDI house	Charlottenstrasse and Dorotheenstrasse	Neo-renaissance ; Silesian granite basement, upper floors round arched windows, bas-reliefs and parapets depicting trade, science, industry, steam and electricity
	1897	House of officials and workers	Berliner Strasse and Ernststrasse in Tegel	Brandenburg brick Gothic
	1898/1899	Administration building, factory gate, factory halls of the Borsigwerke	Berliner Strasse 19–37 in Tegel
	1899	"Central office" for the Borsig general meeting (Borsighaus)	Chausseestrasse, today's number 13	Refurbished in the 1990s, one floor has served as the administrative headquarters of the German Dental Association since January 1, 2001
	1899/1900 1907	Union building extension buildings	Engeldamm 62–64 in Berlin-Mitte	Brick building in "late historicism", with front building, side wing, two transverse buildings. Emergency hospital during World War I and II, then Mitte Hospital until 1990, Institute for Tropical Medicine until 1997 . In the 21st century private property with conversion to residential and commercial property.
	1901/1902	"Motif House"	Hardenbergstrasse 6 in Charlottenburg	several new uses, today a renaissance theater
	1905	House of the Berlin Fire Insurance Institute	Berlin-Mitte, Brüderstraße 11/12	Neo-baroque
	1905	Private home	At Rehwiese 25 in Nikolassee	A mix of neo-renaissance and neo-baroque styles
	1906	Villa Möllering	Lueneburg - Häcklingen	The homeland security style villa played a role as British headquarters in the last days of the war. The last Reich President, Karl Dönitz , who had his seat in Flensburg - Mürwik , sent a delegation there at the beginning of May 1945 to negotiate the partial surrender of the Wehrmacht for north-west Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands .
	1906-1908	"Central-Magazin" for the municipal gas works	Stralauer Platz , Berlin-Friedrichshain	neo-baroque brick building; first reinforced concrete supporting structure inside
	1910-1914	Jewish Hospital Berlin	Iranische Strasse and Heinz-Galinski-Strasse in Gesundbrunnen	Modern , clad in ceramics after war damage
	1911-1914	2. VDI house	Dorotheenstrasse 115–117 in Berlin-Mitte	facade simplified after war damage; in the Kaiser House Jakob integrated
	1908/1909	Main building of the Archenhold observatory	Alt-Treptow	Neoclassicism

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Blätter Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin
2. ↑ Körte, F. In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1915, Part 1, p. 1580.
3. ↑ Heilanstalten Berlin , accessed on March 9, 2009.
4. ↑ Information about Virchow on a private homepage
5. ↑ Grave no. 26 in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery
6. ↑ Carmerstrasse tenement building monument
7. ↑ Monument single-family house at Grabenstrasse 40; Rebuilt in 1929
8. ↑ Garden monument at Grabenstrasse 40; changed around 1924
9. ↑ Charlottenstrasse 43 . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1898, part 3, p. 90.
10. ↑ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 202 .
11. ↑ Architectural monument at Charlottenstrasse 43, Association of German Engineers
12. ↑ ^{a b} archinoah.de ( MS Word ; 22 kB)
13. ↑ Monument complex: Berliner Straße 19–37, Borsigwerke; 1898/99
14. ↑ zm-online.de
15. ↑ Builder for Berlin: Konrad Reimer . In: Berliner Morgenpost , July 30, 2003; Retrieved December 9, 2014
16. ↑ Monument: Berliner Strasse 70 / Ernststrasse in Berlin-Tegel, civil servants 'and workers' residence, 1897
17. ↑ antiquar.wordpress.com ( Memento from November 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
18. ↑ Hardenbergstraße 6, former motif house (club house), 1901/02 by Reimer & Körte; Rebuilt in 1919, 1926-27, 1936-38
19. ↑ Builders for Berlin: Konrad Reimer and Friedrich Körte . (PDF; 7 kB) from a private homepage
20. ↑ Architectural monument: Villa Hofmeier at Rehwiese 25, 1905-06 by Reimer & Körte
21. ^ Letter to the Citizen. Announcements of the Bürgererverein Lüneburg eV number 75 , from: May 2015; Page 11 f .; accessed on: May 1, 2017.
22. ↑ Monument central store of the municipal gas works in Friedrichshain
23. ^ Berlin and its buildings. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2006, p. 336.
24. ↑ Monumental hospital of the Jewish community, in the area of ​​Berlin-Gesundbrunnen
25. ↑ Short story of the Jewish Hospital in Wedding , accessed on March 7, 2009.
26. ↑ Monument: Association house of the VDI, 1911-14 by Reimer & Körte
27. ↑ Image of the Jakob-Kaiser-Haus ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. BMVBS; Retrieved March 7, 2009. 
28. ↑ Archenhold Observatory, 1908/1909
29. ↑ The architectural and art monuments of the GDR, Berlin. II. Ed. Institute for Monument Preservation at Henschelverlag, 1984, p. 368.