Georg Matzdorff

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Georg Matzdorff (born November 28, 1863 in Breslau ; † October 7, 1930 in Berlin ) was a German architect and municipal building officer in Berlin.

Life

Georg Matzdorff was born in November 1863 as the son of Hermann Hirschel Matzdorff (1809–1888) and his wife Blondine Braine Matzdorff, nee. Rosenstock (1835–1914) was born in Breslau. The family was of Jewish faith. Georg was the only child. After finishing school he studied architecture in Berlin.

From the middle of the 1890s he worked in the building administration of the city of Berlin, where he was promoted to municipal building officer. He worked very closely with Ludwig Hoffmann , who became a city planning officer in Berlin in 1896 and shaped the architecture of the capital for almost three decades with numerous public buildings. Georg Matzdorff was able to set accents particularly in the school building in the capital.

“In order to be able to fully dedicate myself to the architectural-artistic part of the work, I had to relieve myself as much as possible of the purely business and the constructive-technical part of it. In the city architect Matzdorff, I recognized an extremely zealous, hard-working, conscientious and knowledgeable technician and businessman with an unusual workforce, who excellently directed this work. Without him I would not have been able to carefully carry out my diverse artistic activities. "

- Ludwig Hoffmann

His most famous school building outside of Berlin is the imposing school building with the philanthropist's house in Frankfurt am Main, which opened in 1908 after 15 months of construction. Matzdorff won an internal competition and was given the task of creating a secondary school with nine classes and a high school for girls with ten classes as well as various special rooms (such as the auditorium , library , drawing room, chanting hall , on a plot of land of approx. 4,800 m² in the north end of Frankfurt . Combination hall , lecture hall for physics, gymnasium, handicraft class, milk kitchen).

Matzdorff solved the problem by combining a front building on Hebelstrasse with a side wing perpendicular to it. A four-story building with a gable roof was built on a buildable area of ​​just 1500 m². The building encloses an approx. 3000 m² large courtyard. The construction costs are said to have been 790,000 marks. Matzdorff made all construction drafts and kept the construction management in the construction. Ernst Hiller was the site manager. The very restrained artistic decoration of the building came from Julius Obst , a former student of the philanthropist.

The schools that he realized together with Ludwig Hoffmann and other colleagues in Berlin include, in particular, the community school at Glogauer Strasse 12–16 (1898–1899) in Berlin-Kreuzberg, the community school at Rigaer Strasse 81/82 (1899– 1901) in Berlin-Friedrichshain and the community school in Ellerbeker Straße 7–8 (1913–1914) in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen.

Georg Matzdorff died at the age of almost 67 on October 7, 1930 in Berlin. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee , where his wife's parents are also buried. He had been married to Emma Matzdorff, born Falkenheim, since November 9, 1891. Emma Falkenheim was born on December 31, 1864 in Kosten (Province of Posen) as the daughter of Dr. Isaac Falkenheim and his wife Luise nee Wiedemann were born. The marriage had three children: Hermann Alfred (1892–1917), Hedwig (1895–1971) and Marie Helene (1897–1992). Hermann Alfred fell in the First World War. Hedwig married Erich Lange and lived in a privileged mixed marriage in Berlin at the time of the persecution of the Jews. Marie Helene became involved with Emil Arensberg, first moved to Hamburg and finally fled to Stockholm. Both daughters survived the Second World War. Emma Matzdorff was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp on September 14, 1942 , and murdered there in June 1943. A stumbling block was laid for them in Berlin-Steglitz in November 2012 .

buildings

  • 1898–1899: Community double school in Berlin-Kreuzberg , Glogauer Strasse 12–16 (together with Ludwig Hoffmann)
  • 1899–1901: Community school in Berlin-Friedrichshain , Rigaer Strasse 81–82 (together with Ludwig Hoffmann)
  • 1902–1904: Community school in Berlin-Moabit , Waldenserstraße 20–21 (together with Ludwig Hoffmann)
  • 1906–1908: Community school in Berlin-Friedrichshain , Lasdehner Straße (together with Ludwig Hoffmann)
  • 1907–1908: Philanthropist in Frankfurt am Main, Hebelstrasse
  • 1908–1910: Community school in Berlin-Wedding , Lütticher Straße 37–39 (together with Ludwig Hoffmann)
  • 1913–1914: Community school in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen , Ellerbeker Strasse 7–8 (together with Ludwig Hoffmann)

Fonts

  • Description of the new school building. In: Program of the Realschule of the Israelitische Gemeinde Philanthropin (Realschule and Higher Girls' School) in Frankfurt a. M. 1908/1909. Kumpf & Reis, Frankfurt am Main 1909, pp. 3–20.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Hoffmann (†): Taste Islands in Berlin. From the memoirs of the Berlin City Planning Council. In: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History , Volume 11 (1960), pp. 14-46, here p. 29.
personal data
SURNAME Matzdorff, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and municipal building officer in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1930
Place of death Berlin