Albert Kinel

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Albert Kinel (born April 21, 1825 in Rosenberg / Silesia; † February 9, 1911 in Berlin ) was a German architect and railroad builder .

Life

Albert Kinel was the son of the mayor of Rosenberg. In 1848 he passed the master mason examination and in 1850 the private master builder examination at the Berlin Building Academy and then worked in Berlin as a private master builder . From 1851 to 1855, the main building of the St. Hedwigs Hospital in Grosse Hamburger Strasse 5–11 in Berlin was built under his direction , based on the facade designs by Vinzenz Statz . In 1857 he passed the examination at the building academy to become a government master builder and entered civil service. First he worked for the Cologne-Gießen and Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg railway companies , and in 1865 he became a railway builder for the Lower Silesian-Märkische Railway , then a railway construction inspector and construction councilor. In 1866/67 he was a technical director of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn , and in 1867 a technical member of the railway directorate in Kassel . On June 29, 1868 he was appointed government and building councilor. In mid-1869 he came to the Railway Department in the Ministry of Commerce and in September of the same year he became a secret building officer and lecturer. In the war of 1870/71 he played a major role in troop transport. At the end of 1871 he became responsible for railway affairs in the Reich Chancellery . In 1873 he was promoted to the Secret Upper Government Council and in 1879 joined the Gotthard Railway Board of Directors as a representative of the German Reich . In 1880 he became head of the newly established Reich Office for the Administration of the Reich Railways and a member of the Academy of Building . From 1888 to 1895 he was department head for engineering and mechanical engineering and president until the end of 1901. From 1883 he was a real secret councilor. At the end of 1891 he retired. He was a board member of the architects' association from 1873 to 1875. In 1898 he became an honorary member of the association.

literature

  • Uwe Kieling: Berlin private architect and master railroad builder in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1988, p. 39 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List St. Hedwigs-Krankenhaus, main building, accessed on May 20, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Kinel, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and master railroad builder
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenberg
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1911
Place of death Berlin