Albert Erbe

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Albert Erbe (born September 9, 1868 in Weilburg , † May 29, 1922 in Essen ; full name: Karl Wilhelm Albert Max August Emil Erbe ) was a German architect , town planner and construction officer .

former navigation school in Hamburg, in the style of the Dutch Renaissance

Life

Erbe was born the son of a master craftsman and from 1878 attended the Philippinum Weilburg grammar school . After graduating from high school, he studied architecture at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg , where he passed the first main examination with distinction in 1892. He served his military service as a one-year volunteer in the No. 1 Railway Regiment. After three years of practice with the architect Ludwig Euler and a job in the building construction department in Wiesbaden, he passed the second main examination in 1897, whereby he was waived the trial work due to a contribution to the Schinkel Prize in 1896 that was distinguished by the jury . In the following years he worked as a government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration) for the Prussian railway administration in Silesia.

Erbe married Jenny Rocholl in 1901, who died at the age of 26. In 1909 he married his housekeeper Johanna Müller. He had three children from his first marriage, and his second marriage was his son Hans Andreas, who also studied architecture.

1st class builder / building inspector in Hamburg

With a recommendation from his department, he came to Hamburg in 1901 as a master builder, 1st class , where the seventy-year-old building director Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann was looking for younger architects who would primarily be employed in expanding the primary school system. On the initiative of the educational reform movement, a new school building program was formulated for Hamburg in 1903, and Erbe played a key role in its implementation in the first few years.

From 1903 to 1906 he took part in the general lecture system of the secondary school authorities in Hamburg, from which the University of Hamburg later emerged.

On January 1, 1906, Erbe was appointed building inspector and took over the management of the design office for structural engineering; from April 1908 he represented the then building director Zimmermann. From 1906 to 1910, building inspector Albert Erbe designed almost all school buildings. Zimmermann gave him considerable freedom in the drafts.

In 1911 he received his doctorate degree with a dissertation on Hamburg town houses . PhD . The appearance of the houses of the Hamburg upper middle class already occupied him during the construction of the house of the land rulers and the police station on Klingberg (1906–1908), which is now surrounded by the Chilehaus , but was still adjacent to town houses when it was designed.

For the expansion of the Kunsthalle, he undertook study trips, including to the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen (1909 and 1911). These trips resulted in a posthumously published work on the exposure of picture galleries. His design was modified under Fritz Schumacher, the originally elliptically designed rotunda became circular, the interior arrangement of the halls was also changed and finally completed in 1921.

His buildings, often using clinker facades, corresponded to the style of the turn of the century in Hamburg and can be classified as Neo-Baroque or Neo-Renaissance , but also followed the Heimat style .

Alderman in Essen

Erbe applied unsuccessfully to succeed Zimmermann, to whom Fritz Schumacher was then elected. Since Schumacher himself was an ambitious architect, Erbe's scope for development was severely restricted. Finally, in September 1911, he moved to Essen as technical assistant for building construction . The projects realized here, such as B. the Viktoriaschule or the children's home for the Funke Foundation, earned him wide recognition. He died of the long-term effects of a nervous condition acquired during the First World War in Essen in 1922, after he had already been retired in 1920 due to illness.

Erbe was a member of the Hamburg Architects and Engineers Association before 1909 and was appointed to the German Werkbund around 1912 .

Work (selection)

Buildings and designs

In Hamburg:

School buildings in Hamburg:

In Essen:

  • around 1910: Bärendelle double elementary school
  • 1912–1913: Extension of the municipal bathing establishment, Steeler Strasse
  • 1912–1913: “Children's rest home” run by the Friedrich and Wilhelm Funke Foundation in Essen-Bredeney
  • 1913–1914: Protestant teacher training college in Essen-Huttrop, Friedhofstrasse
  • 1913–1914: Viktoria School (Lyceum) with gymnasium and director's residence, Kurfürstenplatz
  • 1914–1916: Old Catholic Church of Peace , Steeler Strasse

  • Bucerius Law School

  • Police station 12 am Klingberg

  • KaiFU high school

  • Ethnological Museum

  • Chapel VI - Ohlsdorf cemetery

  • Viktoriaschule in Essen

  • Peace Church in Essen

  • Regional Labor Court in Hamburg

Fonts

  • Historic cityscapes from Holland and Lower Germany. 1906.
  • The architectural evolution of the exterior. (At the same time dissertation, Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg, 1911) In: Albert Erbe, Christian Ranck (ed.): The Hamburg community center. Its history of construction and art. Boysen & Masch, Hamburg 1911.

Posthumously:

  • Exposure of picture galleries. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1923.
  • Urban buildings in Essen-Ruhr. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung, Volume 58, 1924, No. 40 (from May 17, 1924), pp. 221–225 ( I. Die Städtische Viktoriaschule. ) / No. 42 (from May 24, 1924), pp. 237–239 ( II. Evangelical Teachers' Seminar on Friedhofstrasse. ) / No. 44 (of May 31, 1924), pp. 249–255 ( III. Extension of the municipal bathing establishment on Steeler Strasse. )

literature

  • Wiebke Annkatrin Mosel: Erbe, Albert . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 120-122 . ( Online )
  • Wiebke Annkatrin Mosel: Albert Erbe (1868–1922). Ten years as a city master builder in the Hamburg Building Department. In: Dieter skull (ed.): How the work of art Hamburg came about. From Wimmel to Schumacher. Hamburg city architect from 1841–1933. (Accompanying volume to the exhibition “From Wimmel to Schumacher. Hamburg City Architect from 1841–1933”, Hamburg Architecture Summer 2006) Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-937904-35-1 , pp. 80–95.
  • Hermann Schröter: Alderman of the city of Essen until 1933. In: Die Heimatstadt Essen , 12th year 1960/1961, p. 37 f.

Web links

Commons : Albert Erbe  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The information on the year of birth is different in different sources, partly (German National Library) is mentioned as 1862, from the age in the obituary and the other sources, however, mostly results in 1868.
  2. ^ Hermann Hipp: Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. History, culture and urban architecture on the Elbe and Alster. Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-1590-2 , p. 75 f.
  3. ↑ Appreciation in the evening paper of August 7, 2010
  4. ^ Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Ed.): Hamburgische Biographie . Lexicon of persons. (Volume 2) Christians, Hamburg 2003, pp. 120 ff.
  5. ↑ Christoph Ranck: Albert Erbe †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 42nd year 1922, No. 48 (from June 14, 1922) (online as a PDF document with approx. 555 kB) ( Memento from April 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), p. 292.
  6. ↑ Memorandum for the 50th anniversary of the AIV foundation festival in Hamburg. Hamburg 1909.
  7. ↑ Werkbund yearbook 1913 (list of members)
  8. ^ Ralf Lange: Architecture in Hamburg - The great architecture guide. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 ; hereinafter referred to as Long led
  9. ^ Hermann Hipp: Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. History, culture and urban architecture on the Elbe and Alster. Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-1590-2 .
  10. ^ Lange, A 50.3
  11. ↑ blotting sheet 34; Hamburg Fire Brigade magazine (PDF; 3.5 MB)
  12. ^ Lange, A 24
  13. ^ Unesco Symposium
  14. ↑ Lange # D26 associates art nouveau echoes here
  15. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen, Bärendelle school building (PDF; 463 kB), accessed on January 5, 2017
  16. ↑ Albert
  17. ↑ monument list food ( Memento of 5 November 2009 at the Internet Archive ), last accessed 28 April 2011
  18. ↑ Culture Path Festival, Essen
personal data
SURNAME Inheritance, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erbe, Karl Wilhelm Albert Max August Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, town planner and building officer
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Weilburg
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1922
Place of death eat