Albert Schaaffhausen
Karl Otto Albert Schaaffhausen (born April 23, 1876 in Essen ; † December 10, 1960 in Samoa ) was a German building expert who worked primarily as a colonial architect in German Samoa . Schaaffhausen is responsible for creating most of the German public colonial buildings in Samoa .
Life path
In 1899 Schaaffhausen traveled to Africa and Sydney and finally to Samoa a year later . In the same year he graduated from the building school . He worked as an architect in Samoa from 1901 and became the official building supervisor in 1903 . Schaaffhausen worked as an architect , even if he had never formally learned this profession. In 1905 he had accepted a better-paid transfer to German New Guinea , but turned it down a year later after he had become a construction technician in Samoa .
He married the Samoan-American Hannah Wallwork (1885-1949) in Savaii in 1904 . They had three sons.
By 1914, Schaaffhausen had built at least 40 buildings and infrastructure facilities in the country. During a home leave in 1914, he was drafted for military service. Schaaffhausen returned to Samoa in 1923. Here he worked for OF Nelson until 1931, before working as an architect for the New Zealand administration. He headed the department from 1932 until his retirement in 1946.
During the Second World War , Schaaffhausen was interned on Matiu / Somes Island between 1942 and 1944 .
Schaaffhausen is buried in the Maagiagi cemetery in Apia, next to his wife.
Buildings (selection)
- 1903: Native Hospital
- 1905/06: School for Strangers (Ifi-Ifi School), today the Museum of Samoa
- 1907: Malifa School in Apia
- 1907: German hospital (extensions)
- 1909: Samoan Self-Government Building, Mulinu'u
- 1931: Post office in Apia
- Tifaga Playhouse
literature
- Christoph Schnoor: Albert Schaaffhausen: A German Architect in Samoa, 1901–1914. Unitec, University of Auckland, 2009. ( PDF )
- Michael S. Falser, Monica Juneja: Cultural heritage and the preservation of monuments transcultural: Borderlines between theory and practice. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2091-7 , pp. 154ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert Schaaffhausen. Billion Graves. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schaaffhausen, Albert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schaaffhausen, Karl Otto Albert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 1960 |
| Place of death | Samoa |