Arthur Kickton

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Arthur Kickton

Arthur Kickton (born May 28, 1861 in Marienwerder , West Prussia , † April 22, 1944 in Neubabelsberg ) was a German architect and Prussian construction officer .

Life

Arthur Kickton, the son of the princely Hohenlohe forest master Carl Adolf Ewald Kickton , studied at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg , where he joined the Corps Saxonia-Berlin in the winter semester 1882/1883 and there together with the later architects Friedrich Jenner and Robert Leibnitz was active. After taking the Great State Examination, he was employed as a government architect ( assessor in public construction) at the Prussian Ministry of Public Works in Berlin. One of his first activities in 1889 was construction management during restoration work on the West Prussian Marienburg . From February 6, 1893, he worked in the technical office of the Ministry's Building Department and on May 23, 1901, became a member of the Berlin Architects' Association . Between 1896 and 1903, Kickton was the site manager for numerous churches. For his services in building the Potsdam Kaiserin-Augusta-Stift - a boarding school for senior daughters - Wilhelm II awarded him the Order of the Red Eagle . As an agricultural inspector , he was a lecturer in the Ministry of Public Works from 1903 to 1910 and a construction department at the Poznan District Government from 1910 to 1913 . Kickton carried out the same activity from 1913 to 1915 for the district government in Potsdam and in 1915 became a consultant for church construction in the Prussian Ministry of Finance.

In addition, since 1906 he had a teaching position as a private lecturer for monument preservation and homeland security at the Technical University of Charlottenburg, where he later received the honorary senator , in 1916 the appointment to the secret building council and in 1917 the honorary membership of the technical examination office for the examination for the civil service in the construction industry. In 1919 he was appointed an extraordinary member of the Prussian Academy of Civil Engineering by the state government and in 1920 a full member. In the same year he was appointed as a secret senior building officer. After the First World War, Kickton was involved in the reconstruction of the destroyed churches in East Prussia between 1918 and 1925 . He also took part in Berlin art exhibitions with works of architectural painting. In 1926 he retired .

Arthur Kickton married in 1893. He and his wife Magdalena became parents of the later composer, music theorist and writer Erika Kickton three years later . Other family relationships exist with Helmut Kickton , Hermann Kickton and Louis Arthur Kickton .

Exhibitions

Awards

  • Red Eagle Order IV Class (1902)
  • Louisiana Purchase Exposition Gold Medal (1904)
  • Honorary Senator of the Technical University of Charlottenburg (1918)
  • Honorary doctorate (Dr.-Ing. E. h.) From the Technical University of Charlottenburg (1932)

Works

Buildings and designs

Evangelical Church in Philippsburg, Lorraine
Kreuzkirche in Königsberg (East Prussia)
  • Erlöserkirche in Potsdam (1896–1898), site management based on a design by Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel
  • Bethlehem Church in Potsdam (1898–1899), draft of the interior design
  • Church in Neuchâtel (West Prussia)
  • Protestant Church of the Redeemer in Sopot (1899–1901), based on a sketch by Ludwig von Tiedemann
  • Kaiserin-Augusta-Stift in Potsdam (1901–1902), execution draft based on a sketch by the architect Lothar Krüger and site management
  • Village church in Bornim (1902–1903), construction management based on a design by Ludwig von Tiedemann, draft of the interior design
  • Protestant church in Philippsburg / Philippsbourg ( Lorraine ) (1911)
  • Design of the Protestant Pauluskirche with rectory and parish hall in Breslau (1910–1913)
  • Church in Pissanitzen (from 1926 called Ebenfelde) (East Prussia) (today Pisanica, district of Kalinowo ), 1913 renovation, 1922–1923 restoration after war damage
  • Protestant court church in Cadinen (East Prussia) (1913–1916), demolished in 1957 after war damage
  • Design for the Peter and Paul Church in Opole (Silesia) (1923–1926)
  • Church of Kallinowen in the district of Lyck (East Prussia) (1924–1926, new construction of a wooden church destroyed in the First World War)
  • cath. Church of St. Cosmas and Damian in Geisleden im Eichsfeld (1924), including the choir of the previous building
  • Protestant Church in Allenburg (1925)
  • Protestant Kreuzkirche in Königsberg (East Prussia) (1930–1933), construction management
  • Barbarakirche in Beuthen (Upper Silesia) (1931)
  • redesign of the garrison church in Potsdam (before 1933)

Fonts

  • The Marienburg. In: The Preservation of Monuments , born 1921/1922

literature

  • ArchitraV (Hrsg.): Kaiserin-Augusta-Stift zu Potsdam. Potsdam 2006, ISBN 3-00-019343-X , p. 14.
  • Richard Jepsen Dethlefsen : Arthur Kickton for his 75th birthday. In: Ostdeutsche Monatshefte , year 1936
  • Carl Weigandt: History of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin to Aachen 1867-1967. Aachen 1968.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 39th year 1919, No. 105 (from December 27, 1919) ( online ), p. 625.
  2. ↑ Acta Borussica register of persons (PDF; 2.0 MB), p. 618.
  3. ↑ From the Corps Brothers . Sachsenblatt, Volume 16, Number 2 (April 1, 1932)
  4. ↑ Arthur Kickton: Evangelical Church in Sopot on the Baltic Sea. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 24, 1904, No. 97 of December 3, 1904 ( online ), p. 606 ff.
  5. ↑ Cadinen Court Church
personal data
SURNAME Kickton, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kickton, Arthur Max Archilles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, Prussian construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienwerder
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1944
Place of death Neubabelsberg