Franz Georg Stammann

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Franz Georg Stammann (born April 15, 1799 in Hamburg ; † March 11, 1871 there ) was a German architect .

Life

Franz Georg Stammann was a son of the Hamburg councilor carpenter Johann Christoph Stammann (1759-1813), who came from Ulm. He had two sisters, including Mathilde (1809-1896) , who had married the Altona merchant Carl Theodor Arnemann , and six brothers, including the doctor Johann Andreas Christoph Stammann (1794-1887), the master mason Eduard Stammann (1805-1854) and the architect Friedrich Stammann (1807–1880).

Stammann learned the carpentry trade with master carpenter Stauffer in Hamburg and attended the drawing school of the architect Christian Friedrich Lange there . After his apprenticeship, he first worked as a journeyman in Lübeck and then studied architecture with Gustav Friedrich von Hetsch and Christian Frederik Hansen at the building school in Copenhagen . This was followed by stays in St. Petersburg , where he worked under the architect Czerny, and in Vienna . There he attended the polytechnic school and the university . He also went on study trips to Italy, France, England, Belgium and Holland. After an absence of around ten years, he returned to Hamburg in 1826, passed his master craftsman examination as a carpenter and settled down as a master carpenter and architect. Stammann built numerous buildings in Hamburg as well as some country houses and castles in Schleswig-Holstein.

In 1859 he was a founding member of the Hamburg Architects and Engineers Association , which he chaired until his death. He was also a member of the Art Association and the Athenaeum Reading Society and was a member of the Library Commission of the Patriotic Society . In 1843, Stammann became an adjunct in the St. Jakobi Church and was in his hundred eighties from 1844 to 1870 .

Gravestone plaque Althamburg Memorial Cemetery Ohlsdorf

Stammann was elected to the Hamburg Constituent Assembly, but refused the oath required by the members. From 1859 to 1871 he was a member of the Hamburg citizenship . During this time he was a member of the citizens' committee .

Franz Georg Stammann married Lisette Christiane Steinmetz (1806–1870) in 1828, with whom he had three sons and two daughters. His son Hugo Stammann (1831–1909) was also an architect and was his successor. The other two sons were the judge at the Hamburg Regional Court Carl Stammann (1829-1883) and the Hanseatic Consul in China Oskar Stammann (1836-1873). His daughter Thekla (1833–1895) had been married to the lawyer Johannes Versmann since 1853 , who in 1887 became mayor of Hamburg . The daughter Olga (* 1835) married the businessman Henry Gobert in 1855 . The Hamburg Senator Johann Otto Stammann was his nephew.

Stammann was buried on March 14, 1871 in the Jakobikirchhof in Hamburg. At the grave, Carl Heinrich Remé paid tribute to the deceased on behalf of the architects' association. In the area of ​​the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery , the architect's collective grave commemorates Franz Georg Stammann.

Festival hall of the third North German Music Festival
Thalia Theater

buildings

Some of the buildings that were built by Stammann in Hamburg:

literature

  • Hamburg Artist Lexicon . First volume: The visual artists. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1854, p. 245-246 .
  • Wilhelm Heyden: The members of the Hamburg citizenship 1859–1862 . Festschrift for December 6, 1909. Herold in Komm., Hamburg 1909, p. 134-136 .
  • Bernhard Koerner: German gender book, Genealogical manual of middle-class families . tape 21 . Starke, Görlitz 1912, p. 433 .
  • Wilhelm Melhop : Old Hamburg construction . Brief historical development of the architectural styles in Hamburg (shown on the secular building up to the resurrection of the city after the great fire of 1842, along with information about the area and life history). Boysen & Maasch, Hamburg 1908, p. 202 ( archive.org ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Communications from the clubs . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung . 5th year, no. 18 . Berlin May 4, 1871, p. 142 .
  2. ↑ Construction of a storage facility in Hamburg according to the plan and under the direction of the architect FG Stammann . In: Allgemeine Bauzeitung . 6. Vol. L. Förster, Vienna 1841, p. 37 ff . ( online ).
  3. ↑ German construction newspaper . Volume 51, No. 74 . Berlin September 15, 1917, p. 376 .
  4. ↑ Architects and Engineers Association of Hamburg (ed.): Hamburg and its buildings, taking into account the neighboring cities of Altona and Wandsbeck . Otto Meißner, Hamburg 1890, p. 141 .
  5. ↑ Architects and Engineers Association of Hamburg (ed.): Hamburg and its buildings, taking into account the neighboring cities of Altona and Wandsbeck . Otto Meißner, Hamburg 1890, p. 600 .
  6. ^ Residential house, Hamburg-Neustadt (Hamburg), Jungfernstieg 12 & 6 (old). In: Image index of art and architecture. Retrieved December 26, 2015 .

Remarks

  1. ^ Address 1871 Stammann, Franz Georg, Architect, B.Cto. FG Stammann, Ferdinandstr. 44 in: Hamburg address book at the Hamburg State Library
personal data
SURNAME Stammann, Franz Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1871
Place of death Hamburg