Armin Wegner (architect)
Armin Wegner (born April 15, 1850 in Elbing (West Prussia) , † February 11, 1917 in Davos ) was a German architect and Prussian construction officer .
Life
Armin Wegner was the son of Richard Wegner , who later became the district president of Stettin , and an uncle of the writer Armin T. Wegner .
Wegner studied architecture until 1872. After the subsequent legal clerkship , he passed the master builder examination in 1881 and was appointed government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration) in the same year . In 1882 he was involved in the construction of the Berlin Stadtbahn . B. during the renovation of the Schlesisches Bahnhof, today's Berlin Ostbahnhof , from the terminus to the through station .
In the following years he left the service of the Prussian State Railways due to attractive offers from the private sector . In 1885, the new building of the Siechen beer house was built on Behrenstrasse in Berlin according to his plans . The Standardwerk Berlin and its buildings praised the new building in 1896 as an excellent achievement for its time and referred specifically to the innovative ventilation systems that were important for the bar rooms. The exhaust air was extracted through openings in the ceiling voute without a disturbing draft . From 1885 to 1887 Wegner managed the construction of the summer residence of the German ambassador in Tarabya near Istanbul and combined this with study trips to Turkey , Palestine and Egypt .
From 1888 he was back in service with the Prussian state railways, for which he built a considerable number of buildings over the next three decades . In the beginning, individual construction measures cannot be assigned directly to him. The list of building officials employed in the Prussian state and by the authorities of the German Empire lists him for the first time in 1890 as a railway construction inspector (for building construction) at the railway directorate in Berlin. Between 1892 and 1895 he built the office building on Schöneberger Ufer for the Royal Railway Directorate in Berlin .
After a period in the railway management Kassel , where it meets the main station of Kassel extended, he joined in 1903 as a board member for the railway management Frankfurt . Here he built the management building, a number of station reception buildings and finally planned the expansion of the main station . He died of a heart attack in Davos on February 11, 1917 while visiting his son, who had been released from French captivity to neutral Switzerland.
Buildings and designs
| year | building | annotation |
|---|---|---|
| 1882 | Reconstruction of the Schlesisches Bahnhof in Berlin | destroyed |
| 1885-1887 | Summer residence of the German ambassador in Tarabya, Istanbul | receive |
| 1885 | Bierhaus Siechen , Behrenstrasse 24, Berlin-Mitte | destroyed |
| 1892-1895 | Service building of the Royal Railway Directorate Berlin, Schöneberger Ufer 1–3 | receive |
| 1895-1897 | Berlin Gesundbrunnen train station | destroyed |
| 1895-1903 | Szczecin suburban train station in Berlin, Am Nordbahnhof 11 | receive |
| 1896 | Exhibition station for the Berlin trade exhibition in Treptow in 1896 | temporary construction, canceled |
| 1896-1900 | Headquarters of the Kassel Railway Directorate, Kölnische Strasse 88 | receive |
| 1905-1911 | New construction of the reception building of the Bad Nauheim train station | receive |
| 1907 | Bad Homburg Station and Fürstenbahnhof Bad Homburg | receive |
| 1908 | Headquarters of the Frankfurt Railway Directorate | Damaged in World War II, rebuilt in simplified form, demolished in 2007 |
| 1910-1917 | Wetzlar railway station | Demolished in 1981 |
| 1911-1913 | Reconstruction of the reception building at Kassel main station | destroyed |
| 1911-1914 | Bonames train station | today: Frankfurt-Frankfurter Berg station, preserved |
| 1912-1916 | Entrance building of the Frankfurt (Main) Süd train station | receive |
| 1912-1918 | Höchst station | today: Frankfurt (Main) Höchst, largely preserved |
| 1913 | Friedberg Railway Station (Hessen) | largely preserved |
| 1913 | Eschersheim station | received in a desolate state |
| 1914 | Frankfurt (Main) Ost train station | destroyed except for a corner building |
| 1917 | Schwanheim station | ( Frankfurt-Schwanheim ), not preserved |
| 1913-1917 | Plans to expand the main train station in Frankfurt am Main | only executed in 1921–1924 (posthumously) |
literature
- Alfred Gottwaldt : The railway architect Armin Wegner. Train stations in Berlin, Kassel and Frankfurt am Main. In: Yearbook for Railway History , 40 (2008/2009), ISBN 978-3-937189-35-2 , pp. 5-18.
- Alexander Rüdell : Armin Wegner. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 37th year 1917, p. 235. (Obituary)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 1st year 1881, No. 9 (from May 28, 1881) ( online ), p. 73 (section Official Communications ).
- ^ Architects' Association in Berlin / Association of Berlin Architects (ed.): Berlin and its buildings. III. Volume, Verlag Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1896, page 3/4.
- ↑ Directory of the building officials employed in the Prussian state and by the authorities of the German Empire. (December 10, 1890). In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , 41st year 1891, p. 129.
- ^ Directory of the building officials employed in the Prussian state and by the authorities of the German Reich. (December 20, 1903). In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , Volume 54, 1904, p. 167.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wegner, Armin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and Prussian building officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elbing (West Prussia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1917 |
| Place of death | Davos |