Emil Hecht (architect)

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Emil Hecht (born January 31, 1840 in Nuremberg ; † December 16, 1910 there ) was an engineer , architect, and from 1890 to 1908 municipal representative.

Life

After training at the polytechnic school in Nuremberg, he first worked as an engineer at the Bavarian State Railways and from 1869 to 1872 at the Nuremberg building authority. Established as an architect, he then associated himself with Theodor Eyrich . From 1875 to 1878 he also worked as a part-time teacher at the municipal building school.

Emil Hecht was the technical director for the exhibition at the State Exhibition in 1882. In the early 1890s he defended the Nuremberg style . He wrote the draft of building regulations for Nuremberg from 1899, which brought him a call to Munich , where he was supposed to take part in the drafting of Bavarian building regulations. Hecht's buildings have the characteristics of historicism .

He was involved in the association for public health care; Among other things, he published a book on the sanitary conditions and systems in Nuremberg in 1877. He published another font in 1898; it dealt with the question of workers' housing. From 1890 to 1908 he was a member of the parish college.

As an "angry socialist eater" he believed that the Social Democrats were neither worthy nor qualified to take part in the administration of the community. In the Reichstag elections in 1898 , it was set up by the Liberals.

Emil Hecht was awarded the Order of Merit of St. Michael.

Buildings in Nuremberg

  • Apollo Theater , Pfannenschmiedsgasse 22 (1896)
  • Villa Cohn, Campestrasse 10 (1898/99)
  • Vereinsbank / Nürnberger Bank, Karolinenstr. 57
  • Property Karolinenstr. 55
  • Residential building Hastverstr. 21 (1904)
  • Building Königstr. 39
  • Café Imperial, Königstr. 70
  • Hotel Kaiserhof, Koenigstr. 39
  • House Pirckheimerstr. 43
  • New israel. graveyard
  • Factory at Schnieglinger Str. 225
  • House Zeltnerstr. 25th
  • Villa Zweibrückener Str. 5

Publications

  • The structural development of Nuremberg with special consideration of the workers' housing issue , 1898

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Gärtner: The Nuremberg Labor Movement, 1868-1908 ; P. 167
  2. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , June 16, 1906, p. 308
  3. ↑ Apollo Theater (Nuremberg). Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  4. ↑ net-realizer GmbH & Co. KG: Emil Hecht | Virtual Museum of Nuremberg Art. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  5. ↑ List of monuments
  6. ^ Michael Metzner: Architecture Nuremberg. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Pike, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Engineer, architect and representative of the Nuremberg municipal authority
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1910
Place of death Nuremberg