Adolf Lohse (architect)

Adolf Lohse , often also Adolph Lohse , (born August 30, 1807 in Berlin; † January 15, 1867 ; full name Adolf Hermann Lohse ) was a German architect and Prussian construction clerk . He was a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel .

Lohse attended the Friedrichwerdersche Gymnasium, which he left in 1825 as a pupil of the upper secondary to devote himself to the construction subject. On 13 January 1827 he successfully passed the examination as a surveyor and was on May 3, as an official of the Royal Prussian District Government in Frankfurt an der Oder sworn and government building Kondukteur appointed. In 1828 he returned to Berlin to manage the construction of the state stud in Zirke until 1829 . The following years up to 1840 were filled with numerous state contracts, after which private buildings increasingly followed.

On March 27, 1847, Lohse passed his state examination as an agricultural and hydraulic engineering inspector . He was appointed royal master builder on December 11, 1849.

From mid-1855 Lohse made several extensive trips to France, Belgium, England, Ireland, Scotland, Italy and Switzerland. On June 1, 1857, Lohse resumed his work as a building inspector in Berlin. Because of his merits, he was appointed royal building officer on March 7, 1862 .

One of his works is Albrechtsberg Castle near Dresden . It was built between 1850 and 1854 for the Prussian Prince Albrecht , the youngest brother of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia and Emperor Wilhelm I , and his second wife Rosalie Countess von Hohenau nee von Rauch . The neighboring Lingner Palace was also built according to his plans for Baron Albert von Stockhausen , the prince's chamberlain .

In 1860 Lohse was entrusted by Prince Albrecht with the renovation of the Vernezobresches Palais at Wilhelmstrasse 102 in Berlin , which from then on went down in history as the Prinz-Albrecht-Palais .

Lohse could not complete the station hall for the Prussian Ostbahn in Berlin, the first Ostbahnhof .

Works (selection)

Albrechtsberg Castle in Dresden

• 1841: Refurbishment of some rooms in the Prinzessinnenpalais in Berlin
• 1846–1849: Construction management for the Moabit prison in Berlin
• 1850–1853: Villa Stockhausen (later called Lingnerschloss ) in Dresden
• 1850–1854: Albrechtsberg Castle near Dresden
• 1850/1851: Construction management for the Prussian mansion in Berlin
• 1860–1862: Conversion of the Prinz-Albrecht-Palais in Berlin, Wilhelmstrasse 102
• 1861–1865: Conversion and expansion of the commercial institute in Berlin, Klosterstrasse 32–36
• 1861: Building of the Köppjohann Foundation in Berlin, Albrechtstrasse
• 1862: Building of the Archard Foundation in Berlin, Französische Strasse / Markgrafenstrasse
• 1862–1864: Construction management for the construction of the telegraph headquarters in Berlin
• 1863–1865: Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium (from 1935 People's Court ) with residential building at Bellevuestrasse 15 in Berlin, destroyed in 1945
• 1864: Reconstruction of the Trinity Church in Berlin
• 1864: Renovation of the Sophienkirche in Berlin
• 1866/1867: Old Ostbahnhof Berlin , destroyed in 1944

Web links

Commons : Adolf Lohse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Ms. Koch: Adolph Lohse. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , 2nd year 1868, No. 6 (from February 7, 1868), pp. 49–51, and No. 7 (from February 14, 1868), p. 60 f.