Friedrich Gerlach

Friedrich Gerlach
(oil on wood by Gebhard Fugel , 60 cm × 80 cm, Munich)

Johann Friedrich Christoph Gerlach (born April 29, 1856 in Siders , Canton Valais / Switzerland, † September 30, 1938 in Wiesbaden ) was a German civil engineer , construction clerk , university professor and member of the Prussian state parliament .

Life

Gerlach was the eldest son of the geologist Joh. Kaspar Heinrich Gerlach, who was born in Madfeld . His mother Sophie Henke, daughter of a rent master, comes from Bödefeld . Gerlach also had a brother and a sister. He was born on April 29, 1856 in Sierre , Canton Valais (Switzerland), where his father worked as a mine director and geologist. After attending elementary school in Bödefeld and the municipal grammar school Petrinum in Brilon , Gerlach studied at the Berlin Building Academy from 1875 to 1879 . In 1886 he received the Schinkel Prize for Engineering for the design of a canal and port facility in the north of Berlin.

He then worked as a government master builder ( assessor in the state building administration) in East Prussia and from 1889 to 1894 in the Prussian Ministry of Public Works in Berlin. Gerlach then worked until 1899 as a town planning inspector in the municipal building administration of the city of Cologne during the major city expansion. He then became the town planning officer of the then still independent town of Schöneberg . Under his leadership, the Bavarian Quarter , the Schöneberg City Park and the first municipal electric subway were built. During this time he received the honorary title of building officer and later secret building officer .

Before the end of his twelve-year term in office, he was appointed full professor for urban planning at the Technical University of Danzig in 1911 as the successor to Ewald Genzmer ; Karl August Hoepfner followed him from 1927 . During his service in Gdansk, Hans Bernhard Reichow was an assistant at the TH Gdansk and in 1926 Gerlach became Dr.-Ing. PhD.

For his home constituency of Meschede-Olpe, he was a member of the German Center Party, a member of the Prussian state parliament and a member of the Housing Act from 1913 to 1918 . In addition, Gerlach was chairman of the Berlin department of the Sauerland Mountain Club for several years . He died on September 30, 1938 in Wiesbaden.

Work (selection)

• Design for a Berlin north-east canal in Gesundbrunnen
  With this project he won the Schinkel competition in the field of civil engineering in 1886 .
• Editing of the three-volume guide on German shipping lanes - A structural study trip to West and East Prussia , Berlin 1884
  Participation in the founding of the Prussian State Institute for Hydrology
• Publications: The streets of the city of Cologne and the historical planning of the old town of Cologne in a commemorative publication for the general meeting of the German Association for Public Health in 1898
• Essay: The Roman burial ground on Luxemburgerstrasse in the Architecture and Engineering Association for Lower Rhine and Westphalia, XII.I meeting on November 22nd and XIV meeting on December 6th, 1897
• Bavarian Quarter in Berlin-Schöneberg
• Rudolph Wilde Park in Berlin
• Friedrich-Gerlach-Bridge in Berlin-Schöneberg
• Essay: The electric subway of the city of Schöneberg, in memory of the opening of operations on December 1, 1910 for the first municipal electric subway (currently subway line 4 ) in Schöneberg
• Design of the Rheinisches Viertel in Friedenau-Wilmersdorf
• Design for the Tempelhofer Feld (1909)
• Draft of the development plan for the garden city settlement of the Central German Reichswerke, Berliner Architekturwelt , volume 2, year XX, Berlin 1919.
• Settlement of the Reich nitrogen works in Piesteritz , since the 21st century district of Lutherstadt Wittenberg with 470 apartments (1916–1919) and the Elsengrund settlement in Berlin-Köpenick (1919–1929), each in cooperation with the architect Otto Rudolf Salvisberg (1882– 1940)
• Development and alignment plan for Horchheim and Pfaffendorf (1921)

Honors

• Appointment as city ​​elder of Berlin in 1924
• On the occasion of his 65th birthday, the Dresden University of Technology appointed him an honorary doctorate in engineering on April 29, 1921 .
• In Berlin-Schöneberg the Friedrich-Gerlach-Brücke and in Koblenz a street were named after him.
• Commander of the Order of St. Gregorius , Grand Officer of the Order of St. Grabs , member of the Pontifical Academy in Rome.
• Appreciation of life's work and personality in the Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , combined with the Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , published in the Prussian Ministry of Finance, Volume 51, Berlin May 6, 1931, number 18, p. 273

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Gerlach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Fritz Gassmann: Heinrich Gerlach, His life and work , p. 13 in contributions to the geological map of Switzerland; Geological Commission of Switzerland. Naturforschende Gesellschaft (Ed.), Seventy-Twentieth Delivery, Bern, J. Dalb, 1883, online version (PDF)
2. ↑ Märkische Volkszeitung, May 5, 1931, number 124 B 124
3. ↑ De Suerländer: Friedrich Gerlach, p. 21, Heimatkalender für das Kurköln Sauerland, 1965, online version ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Wolfgang A. Mommsen : The bequests in the German archives (with additions from other holdings). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1983, ISBN 3-76461816-7 , p. 761.
5. ↑ draft Nordlkanals for Schinkel Competition , plans Architectural Museum of the Technical University of Berlin, accessed on 24 May, 2010.
6. ↑ On the Roman grave road in Cologne, see Hanns Gabelmann: Roman grave structures of the northern provinces in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD , in H. von Hesberg / P. Zanker: Römische Gräberstrasse , Munich 1987, 291–308 and Dela von Boeselager : Roman glasses from graves on Luxemburger Strasse in Cologne , Kölner Jahrbuch 45, 2012, 7–526.
7. ↑ Berliner Untergrundbahn - U-Bhf Neu-Westend ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved May 24, 2010.  
8. ↑ M. Bernig / M. Braum / J. Giesecke / E. Lütke Daldrup / K.-D. Schulz: Berliner Wohnquartiere - A guide through 70 settlements , 3rd edition, Berlin 2003, pp. 118–121.
9. ^ National Gazette , April 30, 1936, number 100
10. ^ TU Dresden - Friedrich Gerlach accessed on May 24, 2010
11. ↑ Sunday paper for the Catholic people, Paderborn, January 8, 1939, 62nd year, p. 22