Carl Gause
Carl Gause (born May 14, 1851 in Berlin ; † August 29, 1907 there ; full name: Gustav Georg Carl Gause ) was a German architect .
Life
Carl Gause studied at the Berlin Building Academy and then initially worked in the civil service. In this function he was involved in the construction of the German embassy in Constantinople . In 1878 he started his own business. At first he worked together with his father Gustav Gause in the construction business G. & C. Gause in the Neue Königstraße 41, later with Robert Leibnitz , who became his partner. He created several well-known hotel buildings, such as the Hotel Savoy on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin. He did not live to see the construction of the Hotel Adlon that he had planned. Gause is buried in the Georgen-Parochial-Kirchhof I on Prenzlauer Berg .
buildings
In 1890 Gause converted the Admiralspalast on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin into a leisure pool.
In 1890/1901 the Hotel Bristol in Berlin was built according to his plans and was one of the most renowned hotels in the city. This building with the address Unter den Linden 65 has not been preserved; it was destroyed in World War II.
From 1895 to 1897 the “Kurfürstenhaus” was built in Berlin on Spreeufer 5. The part of this corner house, a residential and commercial building facing the bank of the Spree, has been preserved in its original form.
The Hotel Danziger Hof in Gdansk was completed in 1899 and demolished in 1961.
The residential and commercial building of the wine merchant FW Borchardt , built from 1899 to 1900 at Französische Straße 47, was retained.
In 1902 the Hotel Carlton , Unter den Linden 17 in Berlin, was built.
The " exhibition halls at the zoo " in Berlin from 1905 to 1906 were badly damaged in World War II and demolished after the war. Gause had designed it as a Wilhelmshallen in the neo-Romanesque style. In 1912 the western part was converted into a variété and cinema, which in 1919 had become the Ufa-Palast am Zoo . The building destroyed in the war was replaced by the Zoo Palast in 1957 .
In the Firlstraße in Köpenick- Oberschoeneweide is still the 1906-1908 from the construction business Gause by architect Robert Leibnitz built Christ Church .
The famous Berlin Hotel Adlon from the years 1906–1907 on Pariser Platz was damaged in the war and later demolished.
The mausoleum of the Albert Jasper family in Berlin-Kreuzberg, built in 1908 on cemetery IV of the Jerusalem (and new) church community in Bergmannstrasse 47, is also based on plans by Gaus.
Also the Church of the Assumption, completed in 1914, on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem .
Web links
- Short biography on www.luise-berlin.de
- Biographical data and buildings of Gaus at www.historismus.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.friedrichstrasse.de/berlin/historie/geschichte_alle/admiralpalast/
- ↑ In this article the current street names and house numbers are mentioned. They often differ from the address given during the construction period.
- ↑ http://www.berlin.de/ba-charlottenburg-wilmersdorf/ Bezirk/lexikon/ ausstellungshallenzoo.html
- ↑ http://www.useddlt.com/rrg-dr-weber.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gause, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gause, Gustav Georg Carl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1907 |
| Place of death | Berlin |