Emil Boethke

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Georg Emil Boethke (born June 21, 1828 in Bromberg ; † November 4, 1896 in Berlin) was a German architect and military builder .

Life and works

After graduating from high school, Emil Boethke trained as a surveyor and passed the exam in Bromberg in 1849. He then studied at the Berlin Bauakademie and graduated in 1856 with the building management exam . Practical activities followed at the Pomerania and the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn . In 1862 he passed the second state examination (master builder examination). In the period from 1862 to 1871 he worked first at the Western Pomerania Railway Directorate in Marienwerder, then at the Elberfeld Post Office , for which he built post offices, and at the Ministerial Building Commission. In the 1860s he was a full member of the Copernicus Society for Science and Art in Thorn , where he was a board member from 1865 to 1866 and 1869.

From 1971 to 1873 he was the district architect in Weißenfels . In 1873 he went to Berlin, where he worked as a private builder and director of the Thiergarten public building association. From 1873 to 1875 he worked with Wilhelm Böckmann . Together they published papers on urban development in Berlin. Emil Boethke was involved in buildings for the Königliche Porzellanmanufaktur in Berlin, in 1874/75 he built the Cornelius Bridge in Hitzigstrasse (today Stülerstrasse) over the Landwehr Canal (blown up in 1945) and in 1876 the Friedebergsche Haus Unter den Linden 40 (no longer available).

From 1877 he was employed by the military building administration, was garrison builder and director and building officer at the III. Army Corps. Among other things, he was involved in the design for the garrison church in Spandau in 1886/87 (design by August Roßteuscher ). In 1895 he was retired as a secret building officer.

Emil Boethke was married to a sister of Wilhelm Böckmann. The son Julius Boethke also became an architect.

Publications

  • About the port facility of the Kgl. Porcelain factory near Charlottenburg . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung . tape 5 , no. 2 , January 12, 1871, p. 12 f .
  • The new buildings for the Königl. Porcelain Manufactory in Berlin . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung . tape 5 , no. 41 , October 19, 1871, p. 323-326 .

literature

  • Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1986, p. 13 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement [167] . In: Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian Government in Bromberg . tape 15 . Bromberg April 13, 1849, p. 106 ( full text in Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ Dr. A. Prowe: The first 16 years of the Copernicus Association in Thorn . In: Rudolf Reicke and Ernst Wichert (eds.): Old Prussian monthly . tape 7 . Ferd. Beyer, Königsberg in Pr. 1870, p. 69 f . ( Full text in Google Book Search).
personal data
SURNAME Boethke, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boethke, Georg Emil; Boethke, Emil George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and military builder
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1896
Place of death Berlin