August Adolph Günther

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August Adolph Günther (born April 14, 1779 ; † December 25, 1842 in Berlin ) was a German architect , Prussian construction clerk and teacher .

Life

August Adolph Günther was the son of the architect Christof Günther from Marienwerder in West Prussia and his wife Maria Barbara geb. Groening. From 1797 to 1798 he got his first job as a construction worker in the construction of the prison in Peisern . He then studied at the Berlin Building Academy and graduated as a conductor with distinction. As a construction trainee, he was appointed hydraulic engineering conductor in 1803 and accompanied the War and Domain Council Peterson from April to August 1805 on a trip to Holland to study hydraulic engineering there. On the way back he visited the Rendsburg Canal and other hydraulic structures in Holstein. In 1816 he, meanwhile a government and hydraulic engineering adviser, was hired as a secret senior building officer at the senior building deputation in Berlin. In 1822 he bought today's Magnushaus Am Kupfergraben 7 for himself and his family and had it expanded and converted according to his own plans. As an architect, he built the Long Bridge in Potsdam from 1822 to 1825 , was responsible for the construction of the lighthouse at Cape Arkona on Rügen from 1825 to 1826 , based on a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel , as well as for the construction of the lock in Brieskow and planned the Weidendammer , which was completed in 1826 Bridge in Berlin. In 1828 he was involved in hydraulic engineering work in the Principality of Neufchâtel . From 1830 to 1834 he built the government building in Opole . In 1833 he had a four-story tenement house built at Joachimstrasse 16, probably designed by himself. From 1836 he was also a teacher at the building academy, was promoted to deputy chief building director in 1838 and, after Schinkel's death in November 1841, was appointed chief building director as his successor, but died in December 1842.

family

August Adolph Günther was married to Maria Barstow. His descendants were the lawyer William Barstow von Guenther (1815-1892), the doctor Carl Richard Guenther (* 1817), the manor owner Franz Adolph Guenther (1820-1876) and the daughters Mary and Augusta.

literature

  • Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1986, p. 35 .
  • Christiane Brandt-Salloum, Ralph Jaeckel, Constanze Krause, Oliver Sander, Reinhart Fahrt, Michaela Utpatel and Stephan Waldhoff: Inventory on the history of the Prussian building administration 1723–1848 . Editor: Reinhart Route. 2 volumes (publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property; work reports, No. 7). Self-published by the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin 2005. PDF , accessed on February 6, 2020

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Guenther-Marzdorf family. In: DAS ARCHIV, Brunk - Lubsdorf - Königsgnade - Marzdorf, No. 4 July 2013, accessed on 8 February 2020 .
  2. ↑ Rügen. Lighthouse at Cape Arkona. In: German Digital Library. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
  3. ^ Friedrichs-Wilhelms-Kanal, Schleuse, Brieskow. In: Architekturmuseum TU Berlin. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
  4. ^ Franz Hermann Kiefer, MA: Schinkel and the industrialization of Prussia. In: INAUGURAL-DISSERTATION for obtaining a doctorate from the Department of German and Art Studies at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, p. 126. August 31, 2004, accessed on February 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List , Mietshaus Joachimstraße 16, accessed on February 6, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Günther, August Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guenther, August Adolfe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian construction officer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1779
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1842
Place of death Berlin