Alfred Lent

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Grave of Alfred Lent and Hermann Ende, Wannsee cemetery
Grave of the Lent family, Old St. Matthew Cemetery
Berlin's first market hall, watercolor by F. Hitzig
Lehrter station in 1879

Alfred Lent (born June 7, 1836 in Berlin ; † January 4, 1915 there ) was a Berlin architect and railway civil engineer , who also worked as a real estate entrepreneur and banker .

life and work

Alfred Lent was the son of the Berlin lawyer Wilhelm Johann Heinrich Lent (1792–1868), who moved to Hamm in Westphalia while Lent was still at school , in order to accept a position as president of the appellate court . His brother was the architect Hugo Lent . After studying and doing his doctorate in Berlin, his nephew Friedrich Lent later became a law professor at the University of Erlangen.

Lent completed his school education in Hamm in 1855 with the Abitur. He then began working in the mining industry , which he had to quit after six months for health reasons. This was followed by an apprenticeship as a surveyor at the Deutz-Gießener Railway and then studied from 1856 to 1858 at the university and the building academy in Berlin, which he completed with the examination to become a government building supervisor ( trainee lawyer in the public building administration). Until around 1862 Lent worked for the Deutz-Giessen Railway.

From 1863 to 1866 Lent worked at the railway commissioner's office in Berlin. For the design of a cottage complex, he received the 1863 here Schinkel price of the architect association to Berlin and put in the same year the second state examination for government architect ( Assessor from the public works department). Between 1865 and 1866, under his construction management, the market hall between Schiffbauerdamm and Karlstraße was built according to the design by Friedrich Hitzig (the shell of this market hall was converted into a revue theater in the 1920s, then into the large theater under the direction of Max Reinhard and finally to the Friedrichstadt-Palast. This is where the first "Kessel Buntes" was recorded for television).

In 1866 he completed his military service as a one-year volunteer and then went from 1867 to 1870 as head of the construction department for the Magdeburg-Halberstädter Railway . From 1869 to 1871, together with Richard La Pierre and B. Scholz as its architect, he took over the construction management of the Lehrter Bahnhof in Berlin.

From 1870 to 1871 he was again in the military and worked in the military railroad system. In 1871 he moved to the Disconto-Gesellschaft in Berlin, whose owner he was from 1877. He speculated on real estate in Berlin, including Hofjägerallee and Albrechtshof . As a representative of the Disconto-Gesellschaft, he also held various supervisory board mandates, B. at Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG . In 1878 he was appointed building officer and in 1901 a secret building officer, in the same year he retired.

He had the grave for his first wife Bertha built by architects Ende & Böckmann in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg. With his second wife Gertrud, geb. At the end, he himself was buried in the grave site of his in-laws in the cemetery of the former Alsen district on Wannsee.

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  1. ↑ Gerald D. Feldman, Manfred Rasch: August Thyssen and Hugo Stinnes. An exchange of letters from 1898–1922. 2003.
personal data
SURNAME Lent, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Berlin architect, railway civil engineer, real estate entrepreneur and banker
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1915
Place of death Berlin