Adolf Siegmund
Adolf Siegmund (born November 27, 1831 Teplitz ; † September 8, 1916 there ) was a German-Bohemian engineer, architect and building contractor. As a politician, he took on functions in various committees from 1878 to 1907, such as a member of the Bohemian Landtag and the Imperial Council as well as the mayor of Teplitz.
Live and act
He came from a long-established family from Teplitz who had lived in the city since the early 18th century. He completed an engineering degree at the Polytechnic in Prague and at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna . He then worked as a railway and mining engineer at the regional building department in Ofen (now Budapest), at the Vienna City Building Office and at the Austro-Hungarian State Railway Company , which sent him on a study trip to the Orient. He was involved in the construction of the Prague-Bodenbach railway line of the Northern State Railways and a new section of the line near Timisoara . From 1862 he worked as a freelance civil engineer in Teplitz. His brother was the Teplitz building contractor Heinrich Otto Siegmund (1842–1901), who was involved in building the Church of the Immaculate Conception of Mary (Dubí) in Eichwald .
A mining accident in 1879 caused severe damage in the lignite mine "Schacht Döllinger" near Dux due to water penetrating into the shaft from the Teplitz thermal springs. Adolf Siegmund gained a great reputation with the Teplitz spa and city administration when his company succeeded in stabilizing the Döllinger mine after the disaster in 1879/80 and thus securing the existence of the Teplitz mineral springs and further lignite mining.
Teplice construction company
In 1872, Adolf Siegmund, together with his brother Heinrich Siegmund, the architect Josef Staněk (* 1828 in Svratka ; † 1896 Trnovany ) and other Teplitz citizens, founded the Teplitz construction company , which erected a number of buildings in the city, including numerous villas in Giselastraße ( now Vrchlického), the Realgymnasium (1875), the new Town Hall (1885), the Classical Gymnasium and a school building on Allee Street (now Alejní). The Teplitzer Baugesellschaft was a Wilhelminian-style company that benefited from the economic boom of the early 1870s. Adolf Siegmund and later Josef Staněk acted as directors. Heinrich Siegmund worked as a site manager. The company was a multifaceted company that could design, plan and build its own buildings, but also supplied building materials. The economic crisis after the collapse of the Vienna Stock Exchange hit the company hard, so that it went into liquidation in 1878. But it was continued on a smaller scale by Siegmund and Staněk until 1899.
Political activity
As early as the 1860s, Adolf Siegmund was a member of the Teplitz city council and chairman of several non-profit associations. Thanks to his commitment to the Teplitz spa business, he was made honorary citizenship of the city of Teplitz in 1882. He then became district mayor and finally mayor of the city from 1896 to 1899. His local political program was based on the harmonization of tourism, spa, trade and industry. As a juror he took part in architecture competitions for the city theater in Aussig and the arts and crafts museum in Reichenberg .
After 1875 he began to get involved in state politics. In 1878 he was elected as an independent candidate for the Curia of the Cities (constituency Teplitz-Aussig) in the Bohemian Landtag , but resigned his mandate in 1880. In the elections of 1883 he won again in his constituency, as well as in the elections in 1889 and 1895, now as a candidate for the German Constitutional Party and the German Liberal Party . In parliament he also took on leading positions in the political groups and parliamentary commissions. After the death of Ludwig Schlesinger in 1899, Siegmund temporarily took over the office of chairman of the liberal parliamentary group.
Also in the elections to the Reichsrat in 1885 and 1891 he was elected to the curia of the cities (constituency of Aussig, Karbitz and the surrounding area). In the Vienna Parliament he was a member of the German Club , later of the United German Left and, from 1896, of the German Progressive Party . He remained in the Reichsrat until the end of the legislative period in 1897. In his political appearance he showed a rather moderate political attitude, even if he took part in protests during the Badeni crisis in 1897 . After the nationalist unrest of German radical youth in Teplitz, he resigned as mayor in 1899. However, he remained on the city council for several years. In the elections of 1901 he returned to the Reichsrat, now as a member of the Chamber of Commerce in Reichenberg for the Curia of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry. It was not until 1907 that he finally withdrew from politics.
Buildings in Teplitz-Teplice
- Jubilee Fountain (1862, now Kolostuj Fountain)
- numerous villas on Giselastraße (now Vrchlického)
- Kaiserbad (1870–1872, neo-renaissance conversion)
- Realgymnasium, now the city library (1875)
- New Town Hall (1885)
- Classic high school (1890-1894, now business academy)
- School building on Allee Street (now Alejní)
Today it is no longer possible to determine what part Adolf Siegmund or Josef Staněk played in the designs of the individual buildings.
Gallery of buildings
Jubilee or Kolostuj fountain
Former Secondary school, now library
Villa of the Teplice construction company
New town hall on the market square
Former Classic high school
School in Teplice, Alejní
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ ÖBL - Siegmund, Adolf (accessed on December 2, 2018)
- ↑ Architektur Teplice-Teplitz, Adolf Siegmund (Czech) (accessed December 2, 2018)
- ↑ Katastrofa na dole Döllinger (Czech) (accessed December 2, 2018)
- ^ Teplitzer Baugesellschaft (Czech) (accessed on December 2, 2018)
- ↑ Audioteplice - The Kostoluj Fountain (accessed on December 2, 2018)
- ↑ Audioteplice - Das Kaiserbad (accessed December 2, 2018)
- ↑ Audioteplice - The Regional Library (accessed December 2, 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siegmund, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Bohemian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Teplitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 1916 |
| Place of death | Teplitz |