Friedrich Ebel (architect)

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Friedrich Ebel (born March 4, 1872 in Züllichau ; † July 14, 1915 near Grabowo in Russian Poland ) was a German architect and author .

Life

Friedrich Ebel, who was born in Züllichau during the founding of the German Empire in 1872, passed his matriculation examination in Gdansk in autumn 1891 . From the same year he studied construction in Berlin , Munich and Karlsruhe . In June 1896 he passed his first main examination.

After completing his military service, Ebel worked from 1896 as a site manager, initially on the new buildings for the Botanical Garden in Dahlem , and later on restoring the Marienburg . Already in these construction projects, Ebel's ability to work in areas closely related to engineering, such as statics and construction technology, emerged as well as his inclination towards the preservation of monuments, which was more artistic, literary and historical .

At the turn of the century Ebel also worked temporarily in Koblenz .

After Friedrich Ebel had passed his second main examination and was appointed government architect on November 29, 1901 , he worked - after he had prepared himself accordingly through a study trip to Belgium and France - until 1904 under Ernst Stiehl in the restoration of the Wetzlar Cathedral . Also in Wetzlar , Ebel's predilection for rummaging through junk shops led to the discovery of the sketchbook that intervened in the dispute over the restoration of the Otto Heinrichs Building in Heidelberg and linked the name Ebel with the history of the Heidelberg building over the long term.

Also in Wetzlar, where Ebel became a co-founder of the local history association in 1904 , the architect met his partner in 1902, with whom he shared his preferences in the fields of graphics and applied arts and which he shared in his work as a writer as well as in his Forays with the photo camera was an "understanding helper".

In 1904, the government master builder had to briefly manage the extension of the local spa in Bertrich . The Prussian administration did not comply with a request made in Wetzlar for Ebel to be recalled and instead sent Ebel to the Magdeburg government.

Like a castle of the Weser Renaissance : the chemical institutes of Leibniz University in the northern part of Hanover

From the spring of 1906 Friedrich Ebel worked “in Hanover, the main place of his activity.” Here he was primarily assigned the technical tasks for the new construction of the chemical institutes of the Technical University , mainly the installations and the most precise implementation of the technical equipment. Externally, Ebel - unmistakably one of the students of the architect Schäfer - provided the building with the German version of the Neo-Renaissance , here based on the Weser Renaissance palace buildings . In 1911 Ebel published an extensive special publication on this.

Even before the completion of the Chemical Institute - in 1909 Ebel had already been awarded the Order of the Red Eagle , in 1910 Ebel and other architects were given part of the completion of important court buildings in Hanover. In April 1912 he became the director of the Hanover Building Department II and took over the business of an architect for the royal court theater there .

The development of Ebel's writing had meanwhile been strongly influenced by the “quiet, melancholy, grandfathered manner of Hanover”, so that his later works dealt with the last two centuries of the old Guelph city . He wrote several times in the journal Die Denkmalpflege , about 1912 about the garden theater in the Great Garden of Herrenhausen , and in 1913 about the mansion's magnificent vases. In the same period he published in 1914 on the castle opera house , also in 1914 in the journal for building industry on the " iron art casting in Hanover."

In the meantime, Friedrich Ebel had already moved to Berlin in 1913, where he was “appointed to the building construction department of the ministry” as an assistant and was employed with “ district court and prison buildings ”. As a government and building councilor, he now worked in the Berlin Ministry for Public Works .

After the outbreak of the First World War , Friedrich Ebel was initially awarded the Iron Cross as a soldier and shortly thereafter appointed captain . As part of the Imperial Army , he fell on July 14, 1915 near Grabowo in Russian Poland.

Fonts (selection)

Friedrich Ebel created some extensive works on doors of the rococo and empire styles as well as classicism in Hanover, which were still unpublished throughout his life , and also published writings on the palace and garden area near Hanover

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Br .: Friedrich Ebel † , in: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung dated August 7, 1915, p. 416; Digitized
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): Ebel, Rudolf , in: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , 2nd, revised and expanded edition, vol. 2, Munich: KG Saur Verlag, 2005, p. 788; limited preview of google books
  3. ↑ a b Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Callinstrasse 7 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 99
personal data
SURNAME Ebel, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect of historicism, building officer and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Züllichau
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1915
Place of death near Grabowo , Russian Poland