Friedrich Graeber

Friedrich Graeber (born October 18, 1848 in Meiderich , today Duisburg , † August 18, 1917 in Gadderbaum - Bethel , today Bielefeld ) was a German architect and building researcher .

Life

Graeber comes from a Rhenish-Westphalian Protestant pastor family, his grandfather was Franz Friedrich Graeber . From 1870 to 1874 he studied architecture at the Berlin Bauakademie , where Wilhelm Dörpfeld and Karl Siebold became his friends. At that time he also became a member of the Berlin Wingolf . From 1874 to 1878 he worked under James Hobrecht on the Berlin sewer system. From autumn 1880 to spring 1881 he took part with Dörpfeld in the excavations of Olympia , where he was particularly concerned with the water supply system. Together with Dörpfeld, Siebold and Richard Borrmann , he then went on an archaeological study trip to southern Italy. In 1886 he researched the water supply systems of Pergamon during a six-week stay , and in 1906 he was able to continue this research. In 1902 he helped Dörpfeld in his research on the Enneakrunos in Athens, Aegina , Megara and Leukas . He was one of the first to deal intensively with ancient water supply systems.

From the beginning of 1893 to 1898 he worked at the Bethel building department of the Von Bodelschwinghschen Anstalten , which was managed by Karl Siebold. Here he was responsible for numerous church building projects ( Bockhorst , Dielingen , Jöllenbeck , Hombruch , Altenhundem ). Since 1899 he ran his own architecture office in Bielefeld . He built u. a. the convalescent home in Volmarstein (1900), the Trinity Church in Hagen- Eppenhausen (1901–1902), a new hospital building (the “classicistic new building” of the Hochtaunusklinik ) in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe (1904) and the Kreuzkirche in Gelsenkirchen- Feldmark (1904– 1906). Due to illness, Graeber was unable to undertake any major projects in the last ten years of his life.

Graeber was married to Sophie Huyssen and had three daughters, including Marga Böhmer .

Fonts

• (with Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Richard Borrmann, Karl Siebold): About the use of terracottas on the Geison . Berlin 1881, pp. 14-22. [1]
• The Pergamon aqueducts. Preliminary report. Berlin 1888.
• The water pipes. In: Olympia. The results of the excavation organized by the German Reich , volume 2: Die Baudenkmäler, Berlin 1892, pp. 170–180. [2]
• The Enneakrunos. In: Athenische Mitteilungen , 30, 1905, pp. 1–64.
• The aqueduct of Peisistratos and the water supply of ancient Athens. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung 25, 1905, pp. 557-560. ( Digitized version )
• Preliminary report on the investigation of the Pergamene aqueducts. Berlin 1906.
• The water pipes. In: Antiquities of Pergamon. Volume 1, part 3, Berlin 1912.

literature

• Peter Goessler : Wilhelm Dörpfeld. A life in the service of antiquity. Stuttgart 1951, p. 21, p. 36, p. 40, p. 43-44, p. 61, p. 128.
• Chronicle of the excavation of Pergamon 1871–1886. Dortmund 1963, p. 160 (portrait photo).
• Ulrich Althöfer: The architect Karl Siebold (1854–1937). On the history of Protestant church building in Westphalia. (= Contributions to Westphalian Church History , Volume 15.) Luther-Verlag, Bielefeld 1998, ISBN 3-7858-0394-X , pp. 63–65.
• Albert von Waldthausen: Contributions to the history of the Huyssen family. (as handwriting, printed by A. Bagel) Düsseldorf 1906, p. 139 f.