Friedrich Becherer

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Friedrich Christian Becherer

Friedrich Christian Becherer (born September 20, 1747 in Spandau , † December 6, 1823 in Berlin ) was a German architect and engineer , Prussian construction clerk and university professor at the Berlin Building Academy .

Life

Becherer was trained by Carl von Gontard in Potsdam and worked under his direction for 20 years. Since 1767 employee in the Bau-Comptoir in Berlin, he was appointed building inspector in 1778 and changed in 1788 as a secret Oberhofbaurat in the royal Oberhofbauamt that emerged from the Bau-Comptoir, to which he belonged until 1810.

From 1790 to 1799 he was the head of the architectural teaching institute at the Academy of Arts , responsible for training master builders in Prussia. His students included Salomo Sachs , Friedrich Gilly , Paul Ludwig Simon and Heinrich Gentz .

In 1799, Becherer was a member of the board of directors of the Bauakademie, where he taught construction until 1809, together with David Gilly , Johann Albert Eytelwein and Heinrich August Riedel . In the first year of teaching he was President of the Board of Directors of the Bauakademie. From 1810 to 1816, Becherer was director of the Berlin building trade school .

Friedrich Becherer emerged less as an architect than as an engineer and teacher. He was a Freemason and in the years 1817–1821 Master of the Order of the Grand State Lodge of Freemasons of Germany .

plant

Lodge building on Oranienburger Strasse in Berlin (1789–1791); the building was increased by one storey in 1831
  • 1776: Construction management for the construction of the Spittelkolonnaden (design by C. von Gontard)
  • 1781–1785: under the direction of Georg Christian Unger on the construction of the German Cathedral on Gendarmenmarkt
  • 1787: Construction management for the construction of the Moorish Colonnade (design by Carl Gotthard Langhans )
  • 1789-1791: Design and construction of the building of the Grand National , Oranienburgerstraße 71/72 in early classical style
  • 1792: Roofing of the riding arena of the "Regiment Gendarmes" in the southern courtyard of the academy building, Unter den Linden (the construction was considered an engineering masterpiece)
  • Around 1800: Preacher's house of the parish of Friedrichswerder Church, Oberwallstrasse. 21st
  • 1800–1802: Artillery barracks at the Oranienburger Tor , Friedrichstrasse 118–120 (demolished in 1898)
  • 1800–1802: Design and construction of the old stock exchange at the Lustgarten (construction management Paul Ludwig Simon)
  • 1801: Construction of his own country house in Tiergartenstrasse
  • 1801: House at Behrenstrasse 70/71
  • 1802–1805: Construction management for the construction of a grain store in Köpenicker Strasse 17
  • 1803–1805: House Dorotheenstrasse  5 for the court surgeon Johann Goercke (together with Paul Ludwig Simon)
  • Around 1805: Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium, Friedrichstrasse / corner of Kochstrasse (demolished around 1890)

literature

  • Uwe Kieling: Berlin - builders and buildings. From Gothic to Historicism. Edition Marhold, Berlin 1988.
  • Uwe Kieling, Uwe Hecker: Berlin architects and builders until 1800. Biographical lexicon. (= Miniatures on the history, culture and monument preservation of Berlin. No. 9). Berlin 1983.
  • Eduard Dobbert : Chronicle of the Royal Technical University of Berlin, 1799-1899. Berlin 1899.
  • Friedrich Becherer . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 1st year, 1823, 2nd volume. Ilmenau 1824. p. 884.

Individual evidence

  1. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List Mohrenkolonnaden
  2. ^ Rectory. In: Photo archive Photo Marburg. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  3. Artillery Regimental Barracks on Horseback. In: Photo archive Photo Marburg. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  4. Gernot Ernst and Ute Laur-Ernst: The city of Berlin in printmaking 1570-1870 , Vol. 2, page 162, Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86732-055-9
  5. Former Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium. In: Photo archive Photo Marburg. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .