Edmund Waldow
Edmund Waldow (born October 4, 1844 in Stolp in Western Pomerania ; † September 7, 1921 in Dresden ; full name: Hermann Heinrich Edmund Waldow ) was a German architect and Saxon construction officer .
Life
Waldow attended the building trade school in Dresden and the polytechnic school in Dresden . From 1863 to 1866 he studied at the building school of the Dresden Art Academy under Hermann Nicolai and Friedrich Arnold . After completing a two-year internship in Zwickau , he worked in Nicolai's studio until the end of 1869. In 1870 he began a career in the Saxon civil service and became an agricultural inspector in Zwickau and, from 1875, a district master builder in Plauen . After having worked again as a master builder in Zwickau since 1883, he was appointed to Dresden in 1887 as the head of the agricultural department. From 1895 he was senior building officer in the Saxon Ministry of Finance. In 1897 he was entrusted with the management of the entire Saxon structural engineering and promoted to the secret building council and lecturing council. In 1912 the Dresden University of Technology awarded Waldow an honorary doctorate (as Dr.-Ing.Eh ). In 1913 he retired.
Edmund Waldow created, among other things, the design for the office building of the Saxon Ministries of the Interior, Justice and Culture in Dresden, the so-called General Ministry (since 1996 the seat of the Saxon State Chancellery ). In Dresden he was a member and master of the chair of the Masonic lodge to the golden apple .
Fonts
- Concise dictionary of building construction in the Kingdom of Saxony. 2nd Edition. Rossberg, Leipzig 1902.
literature
- Waldow, Edmund . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 79 .
- Waldow, Edmund . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 10 : Thies-Zymalkowski . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-096381-6 , p. 377 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Edmund Waldow in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waldow, Edmund |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waldow, Hermann Heinrich Edmund (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and Saxon building officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stumble |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1921 |
| Place of death | Dresden |