Conrad Heidenreich

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Conrad Heidenreich (born May 19, 1873 in Eutin ; † June 26, 1937 Berlin ; full name: Conrad Georg Heidenreich ) was a German architect who ran a joint office with Paul Michel . Were known Heidenreich and Michel primarily by the construction of the wine house Huth in central Berlin on Potsdamer Strasse and through the Berlin forest stage . Most of the remaining buildings in Berlin are listed as historical monuments .

Life

Conrad Heidenreich was the son of the Eutin master carpenter Conrad Christian Heidenreich (1840–1901) and first learned this profession after attending the general school in Hamburg .

After studying architecture in Berlin, Conrad Heidenreich founded the Heidenreich und Michel architecture firm in Charlottenburg around 1905 together with Paul Michel . Among other things, they designed and built a multi-storey residential building, the corner building at Kaiserdamm 26 / Königin-Elisabeth-Straße 1, into which they moved with their families in 1908. It followed u. a. Further residential buildings on Kaiserdamm: No. 27 and No. 28, both from 1909/1910, are still standing today, No. 33 and No. 36 were destroyed in the Second World War. In 1911, the master mason Emil Schmidt joined the architectural office, which was responsible for executing the plans. Heidenreich and Michel took part in a number of architecture competitions for companies such as AEG and Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft .

Heidenreich was a member of the Association of German Architects . His son Konrad Robert Heidenreich (1912–1945) also became an architect and was part of the staff of the architect Werner March in the 1930s , where he was responsible for the planning of the Berlin Waldbühne . In the fall of 1943, the company's office was destroyed by bombs. Private letters and photographs by the architect Konrad Robert Heidenreich are with descendants in Canada.

Buildings and designs (selection)

In sole authorship

  • 1904: Competition draft of floor plan sketches for the development on Frobenstrasse by the Berliner Terrain- und Bau-Aktiengesellschaft (awarded one of two 2nd prizes)
  • 1905: Girls' school in Spremberg

In the Heidenreich and Michel office

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Erika Schachinger: Conrad Heidenreich and Paul Michel. The architects of the Huth wine house. (see web link)
  2. ↑ Ernst Spindler : The competition for a commercial building for the general electricity company in Berlin. In: Berliner Architekturwelt , 8th year 1905/1906, issue 2 (from May 1905), p. 43ff. ( Digital version, PDF file with approx. 17 MB )
  3. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , 7th year 1904/1905, issue 1 (from April 1904), p. 39 ( digitized version, PDF file with approx. 17.5 MB )
  4. ^ Two photographs of the school building in the holdings of the Architekturmuseum der Technische Universität Berlin , last accessed on January 27, 2011
  5. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , 12th year 1909/1910, issue 8 (from November 1909), p. 303. (illustration)
  6. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  7. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  8. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 31, 1911, No. 99 (from December 9, 1911), p. 631.
  9. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  10. ↑ cf. Berlin address books 1920 to 1926
  11. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
personal data
SURNAME Heidenreich, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heidenreich, Conrad Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Eutin
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1937
Place of death Berlin