Georg Thielen

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Georg Thielen (born March 7, 1853 in Leer , † February 18, 1901 in Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe ) was a German architect and craftsman .

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Georg Thielen was the son of a railway engineer. He attended a school in Hanover and studied architecture under Conrad Wilhelm Hase at the Polytechnic there from 1871 to 1874 . He then went to Hamburg and worked in Wilhelm Hauers' office . From 1876 he worked in Hanover for a year and a half and then returned to Hamburg. Here he got a job with Franz Andreas Meyer and helped design the Hamburg ramparts . Meyer became one of Thielen's friends and supporters.

In 1881 Thielen went into business for himself and from 1885 to 1888 he participated in the design of the facade of the Speicherstadt . He was involved in the construction of several private and commercial buildings and designed the “Alsterlust” bathing establishment on the Outer Alster in 1887/1888 . Thielen was considered an extremely good draftsman and took part in many architectural competitions . In 1888 he made plans for an island in the Alster, which was to be built for the visit of the emperor. However, these plans were not carried out. In 1890 he designed the title page of the publication Hamburg and its buildings . In 1895 he provided plans for a 50-meter-high Bismarck memorial to be built in Blankenese . In 1898, Thielen won second prize in a competition to redesign the area around the Kaiser Wilhelm monument on the Rathausmarkt .

In 1889, Thielen realized the main building of the trade and industrial exhibition, which made him famous beyond the region. He also supplied the plans for the exhibition hall of the General Horticultural Exhibition, which took place in Hamburg in 1897. Thielen designed the German shipping pavilion for the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 , then the urban planning exhibition concept for the 1902 industrial and commercial exhibition in Düsseldorf and its main industrial hall. In Hamburg he worked for HAPAG and Albert Ballin and designed ship equipment and the emigration halls on the Veddel , which were completed in 1901. In addition, he created the award-winning competition design for the Erlöserkirche Borgfelde , which he did not live to see the construction of.

Georg Thielen died in the Wilhelmshöhe mental hospital due to a recently diagnosed nervous condition. In the same year, the Hamburger Kunsthalle showed designs for numerous projects that were not carried out. Georg-Thielen-Gasse in Winterhude has been a reminder of the architect and craftsman since 1948 .

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  1. ^ Rheinisch-Westfälische Industrie- und Gewerbeausstellung Düsseldorf 1902. ( Memento from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at www.kmkbuecholdt.de , accessed on December 6, 2015.

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SURNAME Thielen, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and craftsman
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Empty
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1901
Place of death Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe