Carl Haertel

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Carl Haertel (born February 2, 1863 in Roßleben , † September 14, 1941 in Dire Dawa ) was a German architect . He is one of the first to introduce European construction in Ethiopia .

life and work

Haertel studied architecture from 1884 to 1886 at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . During his studies he became a member of the Teutonia fraternity . From 1886 to 1890 he studied at the TH Charlottenburg , interrupted for a one-year volunteer service in Magdeburg . In 1889 he became a member of the Cimbria fraternity, which was founded by the Teutons in Karlsruhe the year before.

After graduating, he worked as an architect at BASF for two years . He then worked as a freelance builder in Magdeburg until mid-1905.

In 1906 Haertel became a member of a commission of experts that, at the request of Emperor Menelik II, was to modernize his country, Ethiopia . This was based on the friendship and trade treaty concluded on March 7, 1905 between the German Empire and Ethiopia. He then moved to Ethiopia and stayed there until his death. His first assignment was the German embassy building. Menelik II and the regent Ras Tafari commissioned him to erect representative buildings in Addis Ababa .

Haertel was interned by the English in 1941 after the liberation of Ethiopia and died shortly afterwards.

literature

  • S. Brüne et al. H. Scholler: On the way to modern Ethiopia: Festschrift for Bairu Tafla. ISBN 978-3825890759 , 2006.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 277-278.
  • Wolbert GC Smidt: Photos as Historical Witnesses. The First Ethiopians in Germany and the First Germans in Ethiopia, the History of a Complex Relationship. ISBN 978-3-6431-0195-2 , 2015.
  • Kerstin Volker-Saad: Ethiopia and Germany: Longing for the distance. ISBN 978-3422066038 , 2006.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Photos as Historical Witnesses. The First Ethiopians in Germany and the First Germans in Ethiopia, the History of a Complex Relationship, p. 49. In: books.google.de. Accessed November 4, 2018 .