Albert Friedrich Speer
Albert Friedrich Speer , nickname Albert Speer, (born May 6, 1863 in Dortmund , † March 31, 1947 in Heidelberg ) was a German architect .
Life
Speer was born as the son of the architect and operator of the Dortmund Victoria Brewery Berthold Speer. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Charlottenburg and the Technical University of Munich. From 1892 to 1923 he had his own architecture office in Mannheim . His buildings, which can be found mainly in the greater Mannheim area, are stylistically influenced by Art Nouveau and Neoclassicism .
His marriage to Luise Mathilde Wilhelmine Hommel had three sons, among them the architect and Nazi politician Albert Speer , as well as Hermann Speer (* 1902, † 1980) and Ernst Speer (* 1906, † 1943 in Stalingrad). The painter Conrad Hommel was his brother-in-law, his daughter Eva van Hoboken his niece.
Works (selection)
- 1889: Roxheim schoolhouse in Bobenheim-Roxheim
- 1896: Three director's villas for the Frankenthal AG sugar factory in Frankenthal (Pfalz) ( two preserved )
- 1900: own house in Mannheim, Stresemannstr. 19th
- 1900: Sigmund Kander department store in Mannheim (destroyed)
- before 1900: Villa August Bender in Mannheim (destroyed)
- before 1900: Cafe Bristol in Mannheim
- 1902–1905: Conversion of the Upper Rhine Bank
- 1902–1903: Neumayer School, Neumayerring
- 1902–1903: residential and commercial building M. Reutlinger & Co. in Mannheim (destroyed)
- 1903: Rheinische Creditbank branch in Freiburg im Breisgau
- 1903–1904: School in Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse
- 1904: Restoration of the Elefanten in Frankenthal, Neumayerring
- 1904–1906, 1911: Safe and office building of the Rheinische Creditbank in Mannheim
- 1905: House at Schloß-Wolfsbrunnenweg 50 in Heidelberg
- 1908: Mercedes-Benz plant in Mannheim
- 1908: Luitpold School in Hettenleidelheim
- before 1917: Villa Karl-Ludwig-Str. 31 in Mannheim
- 1914–1917: Hirschland department store in Mannheim (destroyed)
- 1914–1917: Administration building of the Rheinische Schuckert Society in Mannheim
- 1917: Expansion of the "Liller Halle" hangar in Speyer (1917)
- 1917: Warehouse and office building of the Pfalz-Flugzeugwerke in Speyer
literature
- Speer, Albert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 350 .
- Christmut Präger: The architect Albert Friedrich Speer. Life and work. First results (= working materials from the Mannheim City Archives No. 3). Mannheim City Archives, Mannheim 2000.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Ferdinand Werner: Mannheimer Villen. Architecture and home decor in the squares and the east town . Mannheim 2009
- ^ Dan Van der Vat: The good Nazi. The life and lies of Albert Speer . Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1997, ISBN 0-395-65243-X , pp. 12 .
- ↑ Director's villa of the former Frankenthal sugar factory. Rhein-Neckar-Industriekultur e. V., accessed on August 21, 2016 .
- ^ A b Badischer Architecten- und Ingenieur-Verein (Ed.): Mannheim and his buildings . 1906 ( digitized version )
- ^ Freiburg center: bench in a monumental building - badische-zeitung.de. Retrieved August 24, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Speer, Albert Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Speer, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dortmund |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1947 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |