Georg Thür

Georg Thür (born October 5, 1846 in Berlin , † August 10, 1924 in Dortmund ; full name Carl Georg Thür ) was a German architect and Prussian building officer who significantly determined the Prussian university landscape with his designs for university buildings.

Life

Thür was born as the son of the council carpenter Karl Ludwig Thür - in early documents Karl Ludewig - (1810–1872) and his wife Marie Luise Thür nee. Reimann born. He grew up in Berlin in the family of his father together with his younger sister Luise in the carpenter tradition. The grandfather already worked as a room foreman at the Royal Friedrich Wilhelms Stud - today Brandenburgisches Haupt- und Landesgestüt Neustadt / Dosse - in Neustadt an der Dosse . Karl Ludwig Thür, who was very enterprising, moved to Berlin early. In 1833 he went rolling . It took him via Prague and Vienna to Munich, where he enrolled for a short time - from October 26th to December 1833 - at the Munich Art Academy to study architecture. At the end of December he was back in Berlin, where he was issued a passport for a trip to Italy. Within six months of 1834, the journey on foot took him from Berlin via Rome, Naples, Basel and Düsseldorf back to Berlin. There he founded a company and a family, from which Georg Thür emerged. His educational path followed the usual path for that time.

Childhood and youth

Until Easter 1865, Thür attended the Friedrich-Werdersche Gymnasium , where he passed the Abitur. His career aspiration was an architect. Friedrich Hitzig worked for a year as a construction eleve . From 1860 to 1865 he took the drawing class (for free hand drawing) in the drawing school associated with the art academy . From October 1866 to 1869 he attended the Berlin Building Academy . In November 1869 he passed the site manager examination.

Start as an architect

After the site manager examination in 1869, he worked practically with Richard Lucae , Hermann von der Hude and Heinrich Strack in Berlin, Hamburg, Bonn and Frankfurt am Main. He became a member of the Architects' Association in Berlin and took part in competitions for a monument to fallen soldiers in Calau (monthly competition June 1877), a grave monument for privy councilor Koch in Thale and a grave memorial for privy councilor Stein in Stettin (monthly competitions November 1877 and December 1877), a burial chapel (monthly competition April 1872), an interim church (monthly competition October 1874), a villa in Gera (monthly competition April 1878).

Finally, he was able to bring his career to a first high point with the study trip to Italy from 1874 to 1876, which was mandatory for architects at the time. Georg Thür started his trip to Italy at the age of 28. It also took him to Athens, Constantinople and Vienna. In 1876 he stayed in Rome for at least half a year. Georg Thür was in Rome a second time in 1905, he stayed in Rome three times: on his major study trip from 1874 to 1876, and also in November 1905 and 1911 when he accompanied Eduard Arnhold to Rome when he founded the Villa Massimo .

Civil service

The efforts to found a German academy led back to Rome in 1905, in order to present his opinion as the emperor's representative when deciding on the location of an academy in Italy. The Prussian Ministry of Culture, ie ultimately the Emperor, initially refused to found an academy so far from Rome - Villa Falconieri in Frascati.

In 1910 Eduard Arnhold was able to buy the grounds of the Villa Massimo with the consent of the emperor . On February 11, 1911, Eduard Arnhold, Schmidt-Ott , Zürcher, the future architect of the academy, Tuaillon and Thür discussed the future direction of the buildings to be constructed in Rome. For Arnold, the founding of the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo was the high point of his work for art.

In 1884 Georg Thür was drafted into the Prussian Ministry of Public Works , initially as an "unskilled worker" in the construction department. He was a member of this until he left civil service on April 1, 1919, with two brief interruptions. First he was attached to the Imperial Embassy in London from 1887 to 1889 as a structural engineering attaché , then from 1893 to 1895 he was a government and building councilor in the Magdeburg district government . In Berlin, the appointments came in 1895 to the lecturing council and secret building officer, in 1898 to the secret senior building officer and in 1904, at the inauguration of the Technical University of Danzig, to the real secret building officer with the rank of first class councilors. Georg Thür was a state construction officer for almost 50 years.

In 1879 he was a co-founder and until 1880 a member of the Association of Berlin Architects . In the same year he got a job in the civil service in Berlin. From 1897 to 1900 he was a board member of the Architects' Association in Berlin. In 1898 he succeeded Hermann Eggert in the Prussian Ministry of Public Works as a secret senior building officer . From 1899 he was a member of the Prussian Academy of Building; In 1904 he was a real secret senior building officer; In 1905 he received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Danzig as Dr.-Ing. Anyway . In his position as a building officer and in his later role as a real secret senior building officer and finally as a lecturing council in the building construction department of the ministry, Georg Thür supervised and designed 34 projects and buildings in Aachen, Berlin, Bonn, Breslau, Göttingen, Greifswald, Halle an der Saale , Hanover, Kiel, Marburg an der Lahn, Stettin, almost all university buildings.

On April 1, 1919, Thür was retired at the age of 72. On August 4, 1924, he was admitted to the Aplerbeck Provincial Hospital in Dortmund-Aplerbeck. He had been brought to Dortmund from Berlin at the instigation of his sister and nephew. Georg Thür died in the provincial hospital on August 10, 1924 at the age of 77.

Awards

• In 1902 he was awarded an honorary doctorate as Dr. med. hc awarded.
• 1910 portrait medal of Wilhelm II.

Buildings and designs

Chemical Institute of the University of Berlin, design by Georg Thür and Max Guth

Technical University of Wroclaw, design by Georg Thür

• 1899–1900: Chemical Institute of the University of Berlin, Hessische Strasse 1–2
• 1902: Royal Technical University of Wroclaw, now Technical University of Wroclaw ( Politechnika Wrocławska )
• 1902–1906: Research building of the Charité in Berlin, Monbijoustraße
• 1909–1911: private infirmary of the Ida Simon Foundation in Berlin
• 1911–1913: Babelsberg observatory (carried out under the direction of Hermann Eggert )

literature

• Ernst Curtius: Antiquity and the present. Collected speeches and lectures. Wilhelm Hertz, Berlin 1875. (therein: Ernst Curtius, Rome and the Germans; June 4, 1860.)
• Door, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 107 .
• Michael Dorrmann: Eduard Arnhold. The founder of Villa Massimo. In: 100 Years of the German Academy Rome 1910–2010 Villa Massimo. Wienand, Cologne 2010.
• A memorial book. Eduard Arnhold, Berlin 1928.
• Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century. Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1986, p. 91.
• Golo Maurer: Prussia on the Tarpeian Rock. Chronicle of a foreseeable fall. The history of the German Capitol in Rome 1817–1918. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2005, p. 195.
• Hans-Dieter Nägelke: University building in the German Empire. Kiel 2000.
• Angela Windholz: Villa Massimo. On the founding history of the German Academy in Rome and its buildings. Petersberg 2003.
• Angela Windholz: On the history of the Villa Massimo 1800–2010. In: 100 Years of the German Academy Rome 1910–2010 Villa Massimo. Wienand, Cologne 2010.

Web links

Commons : Georg Thür  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography of Georg Thür , Dt. Documentation Center for Art History - Photo Archive Photo Marburg
• Holdings on Georg Thür at the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neustadt, Ahnenforscher 2000 from June 11, 2013
2. ↑ Wandering book from 1833 in private ownership
3. ↑ 02061 Carl Ludwig Thür . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 1: 1809-1841 . Munich ( matrikel.adbk.de , Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
4. ^ Passport issued in Berlin on December 24, 1833 in private ownership
5. ↑ ^{a b} Academy of Arts, Archive PrAdK 457, pp. 224-226.
6. ↑ Numerous drawings and architectural designs by Thür can be found in the architecture museum of the Technical University of Berlin ( architekturmuseum.ub.tu-berlin.de ).
7. ↑ The Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome has a so-called Schedarium for the artists in Rome, which Friedrich Noack made towards the end of the 19th century.
8. ↑ Noack's entry / Schedarium of the artists in Rome: "Gerhardt's diaries 23.XI.1905 With Baurat Thür in Villa Strohl-Fern .- 26.XI.1905 Baurat Thür leaves."
9. ↑ "The banker Ernst von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy , who was considered the richest citizen of Berlin at the time, ..." had created facts in the long-standing dispute over the establishment of the academy by buying the Villa Falconieri in Frascati and donating the house to Kaiser Wilhelm II. Richard Voss had made an impact with his bustling manner. “In October the news went through the German newspapers.” (Windholz 1., p. 38) The most exhaustive of the history of Villa Massimo: 1. Angela Windholz: Villa Massimo. On the founding history of the German Academy in Rome and its buildings. Petersberg 2003. 2. Angela Windholz: On the history of the Villa Massimo - 1800–2010. In: 100 Years of the German Academy Rome 1910–2010 Villa Massimo. Wienand, Cologne 2010.
10. ↑ “Tuaillon and Thür rave about individual stalls with a modest casino that I can't avoid. The minds burst terribly in all friendship. ... In the evening Zürcher, Tuaillon, Thür already put up new floor plans, which each of them thrown away without knowing one another. It will be something clever! ”From: A memorial book. Eduard Arnold, Berlin 1928, p. 265.
11. ↑ A memorial book. Eduard Arnold, Berlin 1928, p. 264.
12. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 44, 1924, No. 39 (from September 24, 1924), p. 335 f. (Obituary).
13. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 25th year 1905, No. 103 (from December 23, 1905), p. 644.
14. ^ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 22nd year 1902, No. 39 (from May 17, 1902), p. 244.
15. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 30, 1910, No. 83 (from October 15, 1910), p. 537.
16. ^ Klaus Klöppel: Breslau: Lower Silesia and its thousand-year-old capital. Trescher Verlag, 2015, p. 113 online
17. ↑ ^{a b} Architecture of the "Residenz Monbijou" ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Forum Museum Island.