Carl Mink

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Carl Mink or Karl Mink , (born March 24, 1883 in Worms , † January 29, 1939 in Essen ) was a German architect .

Life

1915 by the Verein der Posterfreunde , local group Hanover, award-winning draft of the war postcard by Mink

Mink studied from the winter semester 1901/1902 at the building trade school in Holzminden and at the state building trade school in Darmstadt . Then he worked in the service of the city of Darmstadt, u. a. as construction manager of the wedding tower of Joseph Maria Olbrich on the Darmstadt Mathildenhöhe . From 1910 to 1934 he worked for the architect Georg Metzendorf , first from 1910 to 1912 as site manager in the garden city of Hüttenau near Hattingen, then from 1912 to 1914 in the Metzendorf office in Essen, from 1914 to 1916 in a managerial position. His work was interrupted from military service in 1916–1918.

Together with Philipp Schnatz (1885–1917), also an employee in the Metzendorf office, Mink won the planning competition for the workers' housing estate "Johanna" in Leverkusen in 1912 (keyword "Straight Streets") and in the same year for a residential complex (keyword "Closed streets and square wall") ) of the Barmer construction company in Barmen .

From 1921 to 1934, Mink and Jacob Schneider were partners (20%) in Georg Metzendorf's architectural office. After Metzendorf's death in 1934, Mink became his successor as the architect of the Margarethe Krupp Foundation in Essen and completed the Margarethenhöhe by 1938. In 1937, following an architectural competition, he bought a design.

Carl Mink last lived in Essen, Kruppstraße 307. He was married to the widow of his friend Rigol, who died in World War I, and whose children he was raising. Mink was buried in Essen's southwest cemetery .

literature

  • Rainer Metzendorf: An unknown man from Margarethenhöhe. Architect Carl Mink died 50 years ago. In: Neue Ruhr Zeitung , No. 229 of September 30, 1989.
  • Rainer Metzendorf: Georg Metzendorf 1847–1934. Settlements and buildings. Darmstadt et al. 1994, ISBN 3-88443-185-4 . (= Sources and research on Hessian history, volume 96.) (also dissertation, Technical University Aachen, 1993.) (including the curriculum vitae and work of Carl Mink)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Compare the Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . News of the Reich and State Authorities , ed. in the Prussian Ministry of Finance, Vol. 57, Berlin: Ernst & Korn, 1937, p. 934; Preview over google books
  2. ^ A b Compare German competitions united with architecture competitions , vol. 29, Leipzig: Verlag von Seemann, 1913, pp. 9, 11, 108; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ oV : Biographical stations by Prof. Dr. Georg Metzendorf on the website metzendorfgesellschaft.de [ undated ], last accessed on November 17, 2017
  4. ^ Roland Günter : The German Werkbund and its members 1907-2007. A contribution by the Deutscher Werkbund to the Ruhr Capital of Culture in 2010. (= Einmischen und Mitgestalten , Vol. 10.) Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89861-861-8 , p. 92. ( limited preview on Google Books ) (In this book, Roland Günter confused the Essen architect Carl Mink with the artist Valentin Carl Mink, lecturer at the School of Applied Arts in Hanover, and united the two into one person.)
personal data
SURNAME Mink, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mink, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1939
Place of death eat