Alfred Cramer (architect)
Alfred Cramer (* 1872 in Gotha ; † June 24, 1938 ibid) was a German architect who worked primarily in Gotha.
Life
Cramer was born in Gotha in 1872, the son of master carpenter and building tradesman Carl Cramer (1840–1904). First he completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and then attended the ducal building trade school in Gotha from 1888 to 1892 . After studying architecture from 1892 to 1894 at the Technical University of Stuttgart , he worked in Hanover and Magdeburg .
Despite a serious accident at work with the loss of sight on the left eye, his career took off in the following years. On June 14, 1900, Cramer opened his “Atelier for Architecture and Construction” in the no longer existing parental home (Uelleber Strasse 36 in Gotha). Until 1903 he worked in his father's company. His eldest brother Fritz (1864–1943), also a carpenter and master builder, succeeded his father in 1904. Now Alfred Cramer was looking for a home of his own for himself and his wife Toni (1879–1954) from Körner , as well as for their son Hans, who was born in 1902, one year after the wedding. Hans later became a commercial clerk. Cramer and his small family then lived in the Cramer villa at Reinhardsbrunner Strasse 10, at the corner of Leesenstrasse.
Baron Ferdinand von Leesen (1804–1876), who had what was then known as “Große Leesenstraße” to develop his properties, is considered the builder of the originally single-storey villa with an attic . Cramer had his architecture office in an extension of the Cramer villa on Leesenstrasse. In 1911 Cramer was awarded the title of Ducal Building Councilor. In 1913 the second son Curt was born, who also became an architect.
On June 24, 1938, Alfred Cramer died after a short, serious illness at the age of 65 in " Fritz-Sauckel-Strasse 10", as Reinhardsbrunner Strasse was called during the Nazi era . So he didn't have to see his two sons soon following him: Curt died in 1944 at the age of thirty-one “after illness in the East” and Hans never returned from captivity .
Buildings and designs
- 1902: Building of the Duchess Marie Foundation in Gotha, Pestalozzistraße 2 (opening on February 19, 1902)
- 1903: Church of the Redeemer in Fröttstädt
- 1905: Luther Church in Kälberfeld
- 1906–1908: Building of the Rentamtkasse behind the Friedrichsthal Palace , Justus-Perthes-Straße 2a (for this building he was awarded the Knight's Cross, 2nd class of the Ducal Saxon-Ernestine House Order.)
- 1907: Villa for the brickworks owner Robert Friedrichs in Gotha, Schützenallee 12
- 1910 ?: Infant home " Viktoria-Adelheid -Pflege" in Gotha, Schlichtenstrasse 12
- 1910–1911: School building of the Ducal Building Trade School (today's Bauschule) in Gotha, Trützschlerplatz (The building is characteristic of Trützschlerplatz and at the same time forms a worthy end to today's 18th March Street. When this building was inaugurated in October 1911, Alfred Cramer appointed ducal building councilor.)
- 1914–1916: Partial new construction of the St. John's Church in Dietendorf
- 1921: Preliminary draft for an increase in the Volkshaus zum Mohren in Gotha ("preliminary draft for a storey structure on the south wing")
- Extension of the Gothaer mutual fire insurance bank in Gotha
- Exhibition hall at the park in Gotha
- Office building of the grocer Otto Böhm in Gotha, Marktstrasse
- 1913: House Neumarkt 1–3 for cutler Karl Gerlach, the only building that has stood the test of time on the north side of Neumarkt.
- Residential houses Bertha-von-Suttner-Strasse 1 and 3 in Gotha
- Building of the local health insurance fund in Gotha, Lutherstrasse
Web links
literature
- Allgemeine Anzeiger Gotha of January 22, 2014, p. 2.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cramer, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gotha |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1938 |
| Place of death | Gotha |