Carl Klein (architect)

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Carl Klein on a photo in the obituary

Carl Klein , also Karl Klein or Karl J. Klein (* 1873 in Saarbrücken ; † February 4, 1934 there ) was a German architect and the first state curator of the conservator's office established in 1920 (later monument preservation ) in the Saar area .

biography

Carl Klein, later mostly Karl Klein, attended the Ludwigsgymnasium Saarbrücken and graduated from high school here. He completed his architecture studies at the Technical University of Charlottenburg .

After working as a government building manager in Völklingen , Neumagen and Cologne - Lindlar , he passed the government master builder examination and entered the civil service. Before that, in 1895 he had made a detailed survey of the St. Arnual collegiate church in what is now Saarbrücken's Sankt Arnual district and published it in a newspaper article.

From 1901 he worked for nine years until 1910 as a building construction inspector in the Lorraine District Presidium . For a time he also headed the cathedral building office in Metz .

The seat of the Saarland Conservatory in Carl Klein's time, today the main building of the Saar College of Fine Arts

In 1920 the Conservatory Office of the Saarland was established as an independent office for the preservation of monuments and Carl Klein, who was involved in excavations at an early stage in addition to his work as an architect (including the Roman fort in Saarbrücken ), was appointed the first state curator. He held this position until his death in 1934. Klein was relieved of his additional work as head of the civil engineering department for military and residential buildings in the Saar area and now concentrated on his work as a curator of the historical monuments of the Saar area.

In addition to him, only three other employees were employed at the Conservatory Office (today: State Office for Monument Preservation ): the architect and building officer Riedel was responsible for drawings, the registrar Walter was responsible for administration and secretary and the sculptor Zimmer was responsible for the conservation and restoration of the finds. From 1923 to 1931 Klein supervised the publication of the Conservatory's reports.

The focus of Klein's work was on the excavation and collection of archaeological finds, but one of the main tasks from the start was the monitoring of historical monuments . At the end of the 1920s, the conservator's office moved into the converted dragoon barracks , the poor house and orphanage built by Friedrich Joachim Stengel on Ludwigsplatz in Alt-Saarbrücker , Keplerstraße 3. There, the artefacts of the State Antiquities Collection could now also be exhibited in the new Museum of Prehistory and Early History presented to the public. Today the Saar College of Fine Arts is located there .

From 1928 Carl Klein was a corresponding member of the Archaeological Institute of the German Empire .

Excavations

Selection of publications

  • A late Roman fort near Saarbrücken. , Germania (correspondence sheet of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute) Vol. 9, Bamberg 1925, pp. 58–62
  • The temple district in the Bierbacher Klosterwald , Germania (correspondence sheet of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute) Vol. 11, Bamberg 1927/28, pp. 121–127
  • Guide through the antiquity collection of the curator of the soil antiquities u. historical monuments of the Saar area in the state museum building in Saarbrücken , Saarbrücken 1930, 31 pages

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary Carl Klein , In: Volume V. Report of the curator of the historical monuments in the Saar area 1934 , (annual reports of the state preservation of monuments in Saarland), Verlag Gebr. Hofer, Saarbrücken-Völklingen 1934, p. 3
  2. ↑ Hans-Walter Herrmann: The collegiate church of St. Arnual in Saarbrücken , Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne / Bonn 1998 (= series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History, Volume 130), ISBN 3-7927-1724-7 . P. 430
  3. ↑ The excavations in the Kasbruchtal ; accessed on August 7, 2019
  4. ↑ Heinz Cüppers: The Romans on Mosel and Saar , 1983, p. 158
  5. ^ Celts and Romans , Bexbach local history association. V .; accessed on August 8, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Little, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Little, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and Saarland state curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1934
Place of death Saarbrücken