Friedrich Geb

Friedrich Gottfried Geb (born August 29, 1847 in Waldau , Hesse ; † February 16, 1927 in Hanover ) was a German architect . As a supporter of Conrad Wilhelm Hase , he built partly in the neo-Gothic style , but mainly created buildings in the neo-renaissance style .

Life

Friedrich Geb attended the higher trade school there in Kassel and studied with Georg Gottlob Ungewitter .

After temporarily working as a site manager for the architect Peter Zindel , Geb went to Hanover and worked in Edwin Oppler's architectural office from 1868 to 1873 . In the early founding of the German Empire , Friedrich Geb started his own business as a private architect in 1873. In 1876 his son Adolf Geb was born to him, who later became a pupil of Karl Mohrmann and chief building officer in Hamburg .

In addition to his work as a freelance architect, Friedrich Geb taught at the Technical University of Hanover from 1875 and until 1908 , initially as an assistant, from 1881 then as a private lecturer and from 1894 - as a colleague of Conrad Wilhelm Hase - with the title of professor .

Well-known works (selection)

Bamberg, Schützenstraße 1 (Bamberg) based on plans by Friedrich Geb

1876: Hanover, Königstrasse 28 at the corner of Emmichplatz (former address: Am Neuen Haus 28 ): Klug residential building;

In a magazine of the Architects and Engineers Association in Hanover from 1877 there is a lithograph made by Wilhelm Loeillot with a side view and floor plan of the building. The sheet is now in the possession of the Hanover Historical Museum .

Around 1877, the photographer Friedrich Reinecke took a picture of the corner of Königstrasse and Am Neuen Haus, looking towards the city . The photograph of the corner building by Geb and the adjoining assembly from the Hanover Construction Company also documented the extensive completion of the development on Königstrasse to Eilenriede and can also be found in the Hanover Historical Museum.

After being damaged in the Second World War, the building was given a modern upper floor on the preserved ground floor.

1913: Interior with steel chamber during the expansion of the main bank building by Ephraim Meyer & Sohn at Louisenstrasse 9 in Hanover

Literature (selection)

Günther Kokkelink , Monika Lemke-Kokkelink : Architecture in Northern Germany. Architecture and handicrafts of the Hanover School 1850–1900. Schlueter, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-87706-538-4 , p. 526f.
Geb, Friedrich . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 50, Saur, Munich a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-598-22790-6 , p. 453.

Web links

Reinhard Glaß: Geb, Friedrich Gottfried in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Reinhard Glaß: Geb, Friedrich Gottfried in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) , last accessed on May 17, 2017.
^ ^A ^b Franz Rudolf Zankl (Ed.): Hanover. From the old train station to the new town hall. Pictorial documents on urban development in the second half of the 19th century , exhibition guide of the Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer, Hanover 1975, pp. 24, 25.
^ Friedrich Geb (text and drawings): Bankhaus Ephraim Meyer & Sohn ... , in Otto Hugo (Red): Neu-Hannover. Festschrift by the Hannoversche Couriers for the consecration of the town hall in 1913 . Jänecke brothers, Hanover 1913, p. 77.

personal data
SURNAME	Geb, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Geb, Friedrich Gottfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 29, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH	Waldau , Hesse
DATE OF DEATH	February 16, 1927
Place of death	Hanover

[Glass-Portal-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Reinhard Glaß: Geb, Friedrich Gottfried in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) , last accessed on May 17, 2017.

[Ausstellung-2] A ^b Franz Rudolf Zankl (Ed.): Hanover. From the old train station to the new town hall. Pictorial documents on urban development in the second half of the 19th century , exhibition guide of the Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer, Hanover 1975, pp. 24, 25.

[3] Friedrich Geb (text and drawings): Bankhaus Ephraim Meyer & Sohn ... , in Otto Hugo (Red): Neu-Hannover. Festschrift by the Hannoversche Couriers for the consecration of the town hall in 1913 . Jänecke brothers, Hanover 1913, p. 77.