Ernst Karl Boy

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only known photo of Ernst Karl Boy, 1920s

Ernst Karl Boy , also Ernst Carl Boy , (born March 13, 1893 in Seeburg , East Prussia ; † August 14, 1933 in Rostock ) was a German architect who became famous in Mecklenburg in the 1920s for his New Building style designed war memorials for the fallen of the First World War .

Life

War memorial in Hagenow (1928), 12.5 meters high
Back of the photo with the stamp of the architectural office

Ernst Karl Boy was the son of the teacher Anton Hermann Boy (Protestant, born August 3, 1849 in Cranz ) and his wife Emilie Auguste, née Kutzer (Protestant, born June 15, 1856 in Braunsberg) . Ernst Karl Boy had an older sister Marie Luise (born on August 3, 1890 in Seeburg).

After graduating from high school in Königsberg i. Pr. And his training, he initially took part in the First World War as a soldier . During the war he was promoted to first lieutenant . Due to his professional qualifications, he was responsible for the construction of shelters and trenches , which caused him to develop dysentery . As an officer, Boy was accepted into the service of the regulatory police from 1920 . In August 1923 he married Countess Anny Hedwig Louise from Denmark in Rostock from the Lind-af-Hageby family (born on May 25, 1897 in Gothenburg ).

After the marriage, Boy resigned from the police to work as a freelance architect. He had his office in Rostock at Roonstrasse 7. He was appointed to the Association of German Architects and was a member of a Masonic Lodge , the SPD and the Rostock Artists Association . In the Mecklenburg monthly magazine he published essays on the new building . He was friends with the painter Erich Venzmer . The marriage with Lind-af-Hageby resulted in a daughter in 1926, Gudrun Gisela, who died of typhus in Schwerin in 1943 . In 1931 he met the trade teacher Hildegard Wittmann (born on March 28, 1904 in Schwerin) during a lecture on “The Ideal Home” in Rostock. This connection resulted in a second daughter, Sybille, who was born in Hamburg in January 1933 and who lived in Gießen in 2019 .

On August 14, 1933, Ernst Karl Boy underwent a fifth colon cancer operation, as a result of which he died. An obituary about his life and work appeared in the Rostocker Anzeiger.

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In the summer of 1925, the city of Ribnitz announced an architectural competition for a war memorial for the city's sons who died in the First World War. The Rostock senior building officer Franz Wachenhusen, the painter Fritz Koch-Gotha , the painter Alfred Particle , the architect Walter Butzek and Ludwig Thron from Ribnitz were appointed to the jury as artistic experts . The city was represented in the jury by the mayor Karl Düffert (1873–1951), among others. Ernst Karl Boy's design for the square monument church was awarded a prize from just under one hundred submissions . The design for a brick-built monument impressed with its modern, stylistically reduced design language. The inauguration of the monument took place on October 3, 1926 on the market square in Ribnitz. Guests of honor were the former Mecklenburg sovereign, Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV , his son Christian Ludwig Herzog zu Mecklenburg and the architect. On the boards were the names of the fallen from the town of Ribnitz and from the neighboring towns of Borg , Freudenberg, Carlewitz, Tressentin ( Marlow district ) and the inscription: “The town of Ribnitz erected this memorial for its fallen sons in the eighth year after the end of the great war " to read. The memorial was demolished in January 1938 because it did not match the style of National Socialist art . (The same happened to the monument created by the Rostock architect Walter Butzek in Warnemünde in the same year .) An article appeared in the Ribnitzer Stadt- und Landbote in which it said: “The monument was created in a time of political and intellectual confusion, when Expressionism bloomed the greatest in image and construction and German people were bewitched by an architecture that was un-German. In the National Socialist state is no room for such the German essence disfiguring buildings and they are completely eliminated. "A first by the Nazis is declined memorial was in Mecklenburg in 1937 with the removal of the" Floating "by Ernst Barlach in Güstrow Cathedral disappeared.

The war memorial designed by Boy in Hagenow , inaugurated in 1928, was also demolished in 1938.

Biographical documents

  • Birth certificate dated November 1, 1939

  • Marriage certificate dated September 11, 1937

  • Marriage certificate dated September 11, 1937

  • Death certificate dated September 11, 1937

  • Copy from July 15, 1936

Fonts

exhibition

  • 2014: The lost Ribnitz memorial and the culture of remembrance after the World War 1914/1918 in the town hall in Ribnitz

literature

  • Heidrun Lorenzen, Volker Probst (Ed.): Fine arts in Mecklenburg 1900 to 1945. Between regionality and internationality. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2010, ISBN 978-3-356-01406-8 , p. 370.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to the birth certificate owned by Sybille Seyfarth, Gießen (wikimedia commons file: 1939UrkundeBoy.jpg , see illustration)
  2. ↑ today Herderstrasse
  3. ↑ Article about a reading by Sybille Seyfarth in the Gutenberg Book Guild , Giessen, in which she gives information about her parents. Gießener Anzeiger from March 11, 2017, accessed on February 1, 2020
  4. ↑ Article about a reading by Sybille Seyfarth in Gießen on February 5, 2020, accessed on February 16, 2020
  5. ↑ Oscar Gehrig : From the fallen painting in Mecklenburg. The dead comrade on the 15th anniversary of the outbreak of war! In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte , 5th year 1929, issue 8 (August 1929), pp. 413-417. ( online at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Library)
  6. ↑ Axel Attula: square, monument, church. The lost warrior memorial on the market square in Ribnitz. In: Friends of the monastery and town history Ribnitz-Damgarten e. V. (Ed.): Passes on this side and on the other side of the Recknitz. Ribnitz 2014, 63–68 (here p. 63). (without ISBN)
  7. ↑ Edwin Sternkiker: Exhibition commemorates the missing memorial. In: Ostsee-Zeitung - Vorpommern / Ribnitz-Damgarten. ostsee-zeitung.de, June 21, 2014, accessed on May 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Elke Onnen, Ulrike Volkhardt (ed.): Paul Korff . An architect's life. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86732-263-8 , p. 92. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  9. ^ Graphics as text illustration in: Friedrich Sturm: Hagenow. In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte , 4th year 1928, issue 3 (March 1928), pp. 114–116 (here p. 116). ( online at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Library)
personal data
SURNAME Boy, Ernst Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boy, Ernst Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Seeburg
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1933
Place of death Rostock