Eduard Römer

Eduard Römer (born February 23, 1814 in Elberfeld , † January 15, 1895 in Dresden ) was a German architect and master railroad builder.

Life

Eduard Römer, son of a foreman in Elberfeld, trained as a surveyor after attending a secondary school. After the surveyor's examination in 1835, he did military service in Düsseldorf until 1836. From 1836 to 1839 he studied architecture in Munich, because he could not get admission to study in Prussia with a secondary school leaving certificate. At the same time he worked practically with Georg Friedrich Ziebland and in 1839 went on a trip to Italy. He started working for the Düsseldorf-Elberfelder Eisenbahn around 1840 and went to Berlin as a private builder in 1842. There he worked for August Stüler and August Soller due to a lack of orders of his own . In 1843 he joined the Berlin Architects' Association . From 1844 to 1847 he worked for Theodor Stein . After completing a Latinum in 1848 , he took the construction manager examination . In 1849 he submitted the first drafts for the master builder examination , but was called up for military service, from which he was released as captain in 1854. In August 1856 he then took his master builder examination. This was followed by activities in 1856/57 at the Kreutz-Küstriner Railway , 1857 to 1864 as a railway builder for the Lower Silesian-Märkische Railway and from 1864 as a construction inspector for the government in Danzig with permanent leave of absence for railway construction. In 1869 he was promoted to the building council and in 1872 dismissed at his own request. After a brief position on the board of a Berlin construction company, he became director of the Muldental railway company based in Dresden. In 1877 he retired.

buildings

• 1844–1847: Assistant to Theodor Stein in the construction of the Bethanien Hospital in Berlin
• 1849–1854: Provincial insane asylum in Schwetz / West Prussia, based on a draft by Ernst Steudener, as well as castles and manor houses in the area
• 1864–1869: Reconstruction and expansion of the Schlesisches Bahnhof in Berlin, with the hall construction by Ernst Grüttefien
• 1865: House at Regentenstrasse 10 in Berlin; New construction of the side wing of the Ministry of Culture

As well as extensions or new constructions of the train stations in Frankfurt / O (Gubener Vorstadt), Guben , Breslau , Görlitz , Küstrin , Briesen, and Tamsel , including the residential buildings for railway officials, churches in Frankfurt / O (Gubener Vorstadt) and Zantoch , the Villa Klentze in Potsdam, renovation of the Burgkemnitz / Thuringia castle and a steam engine house in Neisse.

literature

• Uwe Kieling: Berlin private architect and master railroad builder in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1988, p. 57, 58 .

Web links

• Eduard Römer: Projects. In: Architekturmuseum TU Berlin. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .