Carl Hesse (architect)

Carl Johann Paul Hesse (* 1827 in Berlin ; † 1895 ) was a German architect and construction clerk.

life and work

Carl Hesse was the son of the architect Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse and the older brother of the architect Rudolf Hesse . He trained as a surveyor at the Berlin-Magdeburg Railway . In 1847/48 he did military service and in 1848 passed the surveyor's examination. He then worked practically with his father, among other things. From 1849 to 1854 he studied at the Berlin Building Academy with a final building master's exam . During his studies he became a member of the Berlin Architects' Association in 1850 . From 1854 to 1858 he was employed at the Hofbauamt in Potsdam and at the Orangery Palace and theBelvedere on the Pfingstberg . In 1860 he came to Breslau as a master builder, and in 1865 he became a building inspector in Königshütte . In 1866 he went to Berlin as a building inspector and erected the statistical office building there in Lindenstrasse 32 in 1867/68. In 1869 he became a senior building inspector in Königsberg and was involved in the expansion of the Albertus University . He built the Physiological Institute (destroyed) from 1875 to 1878 and the Botanical Institute (destroyed) from 1878 to 1880. In 1880 he was promoted to government and building councilor.

literature

• Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1986, p. 43 .

Web links

• Carl Hesse: Projects. In: Architekturmuseum TU Berlin. Retrieved June 20, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Oleg Peters: Heino Schmieden: Life and work of the architect and builder 1835-1913 . 1st edition. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86732-169-3 , pp. 310 ( limited preview in Google Book search).