Günther Oberste-Berghaus
Fritz Julius Günther Oberste-Berghaus (born October 25, 1895 in Istanbul ; † December 10, 1950 in Hagen ) was a German architect in the Bauhaus tradition and city planner in the Westphalian city of Hagen.
Günther Oberste-Berghaus was born in what was then Constantinople in 1895 and grew up in Witten / Ruhr. In 1916 he began to study architecture in Hanover, it is unclear whether he was also enrolled at the Bauhaus during the course of his studies. He gained his first experience as an architect at the post office in Mecklenburg and Silesia. In 1928, Oberste-Berghaus began his service as a city architect in Haspe , in order to immediately start planning the urn cemetery on Mopsweg, the municipal swimming pool, the vocational school, the Kipper gym in Gabelsbergerstraße and the fire station on Enneper Straße. In the period from 1928 to 1931 he planned and supervised the construction of today's Christian-Rohlfs-Gymnasium , which, together with the Haspe public baths and the Haspe fire station, is on the list of architectural monuments in Hagen today. After the incorporation of Haspe in 1929 he also worked in the city of Hagen, later also in Berlin, Hamburg, Schwerin, Hanover, Dresden, Oppeln and Osaka.
Web links
- Art nouveau & more in Hagen. 2010 ( Memento from February 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- Fritz Julius Günther Oberste-Berghaus. In: arch INFORM .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oberste-Berghaus, Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 1950 |
| Place of death | Hagen |