August buses

August Busse (born January 27, 1839 in Berlin ; † January 9, 1896 there , full name: August Wilhelm Martin Heinrich Busse ) was a German architect and Prussian construction clerk .

Life

August Busse was born the son of the architect Carl Ferdinand Busse and, like his brothers Carl and Konrad, also became an architect. He received his training from his father, as well as from Gustav Möller and Hermann Ende . From 1857 to 1861 he attended the Berlin building academy with a final building management exam. After study trips to Belgium , France and Italy , he worked from 1862 in Aachen and with A. Kümmritz in Berlin. In February 1867 he passed the master builder exam. Between 1867 and 1876 he worked both in the Navy and Trade Ministry and in the Ministerial Building Commission as well as a city master builder in Görlitz and as a private master builder . In 1876 he was garrison -Bauinspektor the War Department and in 1879 Councilor in the Reich Chancellery for state buildings. In 1884 he became a secret councilor and lecturer in the Reich Office of the Interior . Together with Friedrich Adler and Reinhold Persius , he was a member of the expert commission for the building of the Reichstag. As of 1889, he was responsible for state buildings of the German Reich as a secret councilor .

buildings

• 1875–1877: Head of management with Heinrich Herrmann at the criminal court in Moabit (preserved parts under monument protection)
• 1875–1878: Dragoon barracks between Gneisenaustrasse and Blücherstrasse (together with Hugo Steuer, based on a design by Ferdinand Fleischinger )
• 1876–1878: Construction management of the Groß-Lichterfelde cadet institute (based on designs by Gustav Voigtel and Ferdinand Fleischinger)
• Around 1880: Generalmilitary Treasury in Königgrätzer Strasse
• 1885–1886: Conversion of the Reich Office of the Interior, Wilhelmstrasse 74
• 1885–1887: Extension of the Statistical Office, Lützowufer 6–8
• 1887–1891: Patent Office Luisenstraße 33/34 (monument protection)
• 1891–1894: Reich Insurance Office , Königin-Augusta-Straße 25–27 (today Reichpietschufer 50; monument protection)
• 1894–1897: Health Department , Klopstockstrasse 18 (today Bartningallee 2–4) and extensions to the Foreign Office
• From 1885: Buildings for the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (together with Paul Spieker )

literature

Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century , p. 15, Berlin 1986.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Moabit remand prison in the state monument list
2. ^ Imperial Patent Office in the state monument list
3. ↑ Reich Insurance Office in the state monument list
4. ↑ Health Department, Berlin. (From: Atlas zur Zeitschrift für Bauwesen, edited by the Ministry of Public Works, vol. 50, 1900)