Franz Zwick

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Franz Zwick as a corps student 1886
Gravestone of Franz Zwick in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Wilhelm Franz Zwick (born May 6, 1863 in Groß Rosenburg ; † June 23, 1932 in Berlin ) was a German architect .

Life

Franz Zwick studied architecture at the Technical University of Charlottenburg and joined the Corps Saxonia-Berlin in the winter semester of 1884/1885. After completing his studies, he worked on the construction of the city theater in Worms . He then taught architecture at the Höxter building trade school , a forerunner of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences .

After working as an architect at various larger construction companies in civil engineering, in 1900 he was given the management of the Beelitz-Heilstätten , one of the largest construction projects of the time. During the First World War he was in charge of the construction management of the extension buildings of the Westfälisch-Anhaltischen Sprengstoff AG in Reinsdorf , Coswig and Haltern . After the First World War, he worked as a construction consultant for the Michael Group. In the last years of his life he was busy building paper mills . Some of his buildings in Berlin and Beelitz are now under monument protection or belong to monument areas.

Zwick was married to Nympha geb. Stöhr (born November 4, 1865, † May 8, 1931). Since 1898 he was a member of the Berlin Freemason Lodge Friedrich Wilhelm zur Morgenröthe

Franz Zwick died in Berlin in 1932 at the age of 69. His grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 19-M).

Buildings and designs

  • Stadttheater Worms (collaboration)
  • 1904 and 1910: Hospital building of the mental hospital in Berlin-Pankow , Hauptstrasse 63
  • 1906: Diesterweg School in Beelitz
  • 1907–1908: House in Berlin-Westend , Lindenallee 33 / Klaus-Groth-Straße 6
  • 1909: Mental hospital in Berlin-Pankow, Parkstrasse 12
  • Pictures of the buildings by Franz Zwick

  • Hospital building of the mental hospital in Berlin-Pankow, Hauptstrasse 63

  • Diesterweg School in Beelitz

  • Residential building in Berlin-Westend, Lindenallee 33 / Klaus-Groth-Straße 6

  • Mental hospital in Berlin-Pankow, Parkstrasse 12

literature

  • Carl Weigandt: History of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin to Aachen 1867-1967. Aachen 1968.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 497.
personal data
SURNAME Zwick, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zwick, Wilhelm Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Gross Rosenburg
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1932
Place of death Berlin