Ernst Heinrich Giese

Ernst Heinrich Giese (born April 8, 1853 in Altena , Westphalia ; † February 8, 1944 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German architect .

Ernst Heinrich Giese was the twelfth child of the landlord and butcher Friedrich Giese and Marie Elisabeth Giese born. Berkenhoff from Altena in the Westphalian Sauerland .

Ernst Heinrich was the younger brother of Albert Giese . The war memorial in the Wieden in Plettenberg (1879) is mentioned as the first evidence of his activity . He then moved to Halle with his brother, founded the Atelier for Architecture and Applied Arts / Construction with him in 1883 and ran it until 1922.

Giese married Marie geb. Parsley. He was a city councilor in Halle from 1899 to 1906 and was a member of the city building committee from 1904 to 1912. From 1893 he was a member of the Masonic lodge to the five towers at the salt source . Giese died in 1944 and was buried on the site outside the surrounding walls of the city godsack. The grave site no longer exists.

Buildings and designs

Department store Römischer Kaiser in Erfurt
1906–1908 by Albert and Ernst Giese

1879: War memorial in the Wieden in Plettenberg

(Buildings that have arisen later in collaboration with his brother Albert Giese are there listed.)

literature

Mirjam-Juliane Frank: The buildings of Albert and Ernst Giese and their “Atelier for Architecture and Applied Arts / Construction” (1883–1922) in Halle (Saale) with special consideration of their department store architecture. unpublished master's thesis, University of Halle, 2001.
Volkspark Halle eV (Ed.): 100 years of Volkspark Halle. University of Art and Design Halle, Halle (Saale) 2007, ISBN 978-3-86019-059-3 .

Web link

Mirjam Frank: Halle around 1900. Department store buildings by Albert and Ernst Giese. online magazine Kulturfalter , April 2009, last accessed on March 4, 2013

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Volkspark Halle eV (Ed.): 100 years of Volkspark Halle. University of Art and Design Halle, Halle (Saale) 2007, ISBN 978-3-86019-059-3 , pp. 49–55.

personal data
SURNAME	Giese, Ernst Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Giese, Ernst (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	April 8, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH	unsure: Altena
DATE OF DEATH	February 8, 1944
Place of death	Halle (Saale)

[Volkspark-1] Volkspark Halle eV (Ed.): 100 years of Volkspark Halle. University of Art and Design Halle, Halle (Saale) 2007, ISBN 978-3-86019-059-3 , pp. 49–55.