Fritz Wever

Fritz Wever (born January 18, 1852 in Kleve ; † March 24, 1913 in Düsseldorf ) was a German architect , Prussian construction clerk and professor at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . He was the founder of the Düsseldorf Green Space Commission, an essential part of the later Ruhr Regional Association .

Life

Fritz Wever was the third of six sons of the Prussian attorney general Carl Georg Wever and his wife Catharina born. Tavenraat.

Wever was a student at the Dorotheen Municipal Realgymnasium, where he was the founder of a school library in Prima. From Easter 1873 he worked as a Baueleve in the offices of the architects Housselle and Schwechten.

In 1874 he enrolled at the University of Zurich, where he heard lectures by the German freedom fighter Gottfried Kinkel . From 1874 onwards he attended the Berlin Building Academy for six semesters , where he passed the building management exam. Then joined the architectural office Gropius and Schmieden ( Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden ). In the spring of 1878 he was entrusted with the independent construction of a post office at the Hansdorf train station in Silesia. Since he had to get along without a technician and bookkeeper, he later considered this project to be his most beneficial apprenticeship.

After completion of the post office, he was appointed to the Imperial General Post Office in Berlin, where he stayed until he was preparing for the second state examination as a government architect ( assessor in the public building administration). After he had passed this in 1884, he was represented by the sick building councilor Werner in Naumburg (Saale). The Prussian district government in Merseburg entrusted him with the construction of the Straach Church near Lutherstadt Wittenberg and, after the death of his superior, he was in charge of the Wittenberg district building inspection. In Wittenberg he built the residence of the magistrate Rubach and the Kaiser Wilhelm Augusta Hospital.

In May 1886 he received the invitation to participate in the planning and construction of several university buildings in Göttingen. He was busy with the complete renovation of the Göttingen observatory , the new building of the botanical museum and the pathological institute. His lectures at the University of Göttingen were published by Ruprecht Verlag in 1887.

In January 1891 he was appointed to the Prussian Ministry of Public Works in Berlin as a so-called "unskilled worker" . At Easter 1892 he came to the Berlin Police Headquarters as a building inspector . In continuation of his teaching activity in Göttingen , he completed his habilitation in 1894 at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg (today's Technical University of Berlin ) and held lectures there until he gave up this satisfactory job in 1908 due to excessive workload.

In 1897 he was transferred to the Prussian district government of Potsdam with the rank of agricultural inspector . In the Domains and Forests department , he was appointed building officer. His largest private work was the construction of the Berlin Church of St. Lazarus on the corner plot of Romintener Strasse and Cadiner Strasse in Berlin, which was later popularly known as the Berlin East Cathedral, as it had 1,100 seats and 300 standing places.

In 1909, Wever was transferred to the Prussian district government of Düsseldorf with the rank of government and building councilor , where he was the only state housing inspector in Prussia. There he was again entrusted with improving the living conditions of the socially disadvantaged. With his work, for which he knew how to arouse the help and insight of groups interested in urban planning and socio-political, he combined a lively lecture activity. He appeared at the Dresden Hygiene Congress and at the 1912 urban development exhibition in Düsseldorf.

Before a committee in the Prussian House of Representatives , in 1913 the senior government and building officer Ludwig Hercher stated: “In one respect, we Düsseldorf can claim something special, that is our priority in the area of ​​regional planning. As early as 1910, the then district president Kruse formed a so-called green space commission at the suggestion of the government and building councilor Wever. This set itself the task of drawing up a large part of the government district and a traffic route plan. ”In doing so, he made an important contribution that can still be seen today, ensuring that Düsseldorf retained its urban charm with numerous green spaces. The Ruhrsiedungsverband, founded in 1920, developed from the Düsseldorf Green Space Commission .

Fritz Wever married Emma Kortüm in Güstrow in 1887, daughter of the manor owner Helmuth Boguslav Kortüm and his wife Emma nee. Ihlefeld. The marriage had seven children.

Memberships and honors

In 1907 Fritz Wever was awarded the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, IV class.

He supported his brother Walther G. Wever in researching the family history, who was only able to promote the work sporadically from abroad, and in 1911 he organized the first Wever family day in Hagen.

Publications

• Reconstruction of the Göttingen observatory. In: Journal of the Architects and Engineers Association of Hanover , 39th year 1893, columns 157–164, drawings: pages 6–8

literature

• Eberhard Winkhaus: We come from the family of farmers and blacksmiths. Starke Verlag, Görlitz 1936.
• Günther Wever: Family Chronicle Wever. (Loose-leaf collection) (since 1977)
• Walther Wever: Family Chronicle, Volume 1. 4th Edition, Barsinghausen 2007.
• Fritz Breddemann, Eberhard Wever: Ancestors Wever 1807–1950. Memories. Self-published, Hamburg 2003.

Web links

Commons : Fritz Wever  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Portal of the Wever family association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ #Wever 1893 .
2. ^ Entry "Fritz Wever" in: archthek - Historisches Architektenregister, Section Weiser - Wezel, http://www.kmkbuecholdt.de/historisches/haben/architekten_wei.htm (as of December 7, 2012)
3. ↑ as a collaborator of his brother Walther Wever: History of the Wever family. Berlin 1898