Fritz Zastrau

Karl Albert Fritz Zastrau (also Karl Albert Friedrich Zastrau ; born September 12, 1837 in Freystadt , Province of Silesia ; † February 2, 1899 in Friedenau , Teltow district ) was a German architect and Prussian construction officer . He mainly worked in Berlin, where he designed university and government buildings and was entrusted with their construction management .

Life

From 1851 Fritz Zastrau attended the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau, where he passed the Abitur in 1857. This was followed by a year as a student at Baurat Blanckenhorn in Brieg . From 1858 to 1860 Zastrau studied at the Berlin Bauakademie , where he took the construction manager examination. Then he practically worked on university buildings in Berlin. In 1870 Zastrau undertook study trips a. a. in Hungary, Italy and southern Germany, and passed the master builder examination in the same year .

At the beginning of his career, Fritz Zastrau worked in construction management at university buildings in Berlin, and he also worked as an assistant teacher at the Berlin Building Academy. In 1875 he was appointed master builder at the Ministerial Building Commission, and then in 1879 as building inspector. Zastrau went to Königsberg in 1884 as a government and building officer . In 1890 he was appointed Lecturer Council in the Ministry of Public Works . In 1891 Zastrau became a member of the Prussian Academy of Building .

buildings

drafts

Botanical Museum in Berlin-Schöneberg, built 1878–1880

Police headquarters in Hanover, built 1899–1903, designed together with Paul Kieschke

• 1865–1867: Chemical Institute of the Friedrich Wilhelms University and the Academy of Sciences at Georgenstrasse 34–36, Berlin, with Friedrich A. Cremer
• 1870: Design for the chemical laboratory in Pest, Hungary (not carried out)
• 1875–1878: Astronomical Computing Institute of the observatory in Lindenstrasse, Berlin
• 1878: Combined station of the Charité in Berlin
• 1878/79: Conversion of the observatory in Lindenstrasse , Berlin (with O. Lorenz)
• 1878–1880: Botanical Museum in Grunewaldstrasse in Berlin-Schöneberg (today: Kleist-Park ), construction management E. Haesecke
• 1882–1884: Institute of Pathology and Anatomy at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Luisenstrasse, Berlin
• 1893–1895: Government building in Osnabrück
• 1899–1903: Police headquarters in Hanover, with Paul Kieschke

Construction management

• 1871–1874: University Library, Dorotheenstrasse 9, Berlin, design by Paul Spieker
• 1873–1877: Physiological Institute, Dorotheenstrasse 35, Berlin, with small guard, design by Paul Spieker (today: Robert Koch Forum )
• 1873–1878: Physikalisches Institut, Reichstagufer 7/8, Berlin, with M. Hellwig, design by Paul Spieker
• 1877: Charite maternity hospital, Berlin, design by Julius Emmerich
• 1879–1883: Pharmacological Institute Dorotheenstr. 34A, Berlin, design by Paul Spieker
• 1884/85: Morgue in Berlin, draft by the ministerial building commission
• 1884/85: Office building of the chief of the civil cabinet at Wilhelmstrasse 64 in Berlin
• 1884/85: Ministry of Public Works at Leipziger Strasse 125 in Berlin
• 1898: Government building in Osnabrück

Further participation

• Government building in Frankfurt / Oder
• Consistorial building in Stade
• Consistorial building in Poznan
• Consistorial building in Szczecin
• Consistorial building in Magdeburg
• Building for the General Commission in Düsseldorf

literature

• Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century . Society for Local History and Monument Preservation in the Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1986, p. 94.

Web links

• Biographical entry on Zastrau at the Deutsche Fotothek
• Designs and projects by Fritz Zastrau in the holdings of the Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Albert Friedrich Zastrau . In: Felix Blankenstein: 110 Years of the Dental Institute Berlin . Quintessenz-Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-87652-394-X , p. 47.