Georg Wickop

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Georg Wickop (born April 27, 1861 in Aachen , † November 21, 1914 in Darmstadt ) was a German architect , construction clerk and university professor .

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Wickop was the son of the Aachen trade school teacher and architect Wilhelm Wickop and Henriette Elise Schifflin from Krefeld. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Aachen and then worked from 1884 as a government building supervisor ( trainee lawyer in public construction) in Cologne , from 1888 as a government master builder ( assessor ). In 1888 he was entrusted with teaching substitute for his sick teacher Professor Franz Ewerbeck at the Technical University of Aachen. Ewerbeck died in 1889, Wickop was considered as his successor to his chair, but the appointment failed. Wickop continued to work in the state building administration, in 1893 he received an order from the construction management of the regional and local court in Wiesbaden. He worked on the plans of the Berlin privy councilor Noth several times. The building was not completed until 1897.

In 1895 he was appointed full professor of architecture to succeed Dr. Andreas Simons was appointed to the Technical University of Darmstadt , where he also served as dean of the architecture department from 1899 to 1904 and as rector of the university from 1911 to 1913 . Wickop was instrumental in redesigning the faculty of architecture. Karl Hofmann came to Darmstadt in 1897, followed as assistant to Friedrich Pützer in 1897 and Heinrich Walbe in 1902. Since 1903, Wickop was also a member of the Hesse-Darmstadt Monument Council and monument conservator of the Starkenburg Province .

Wickop was a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA) and the German Werkbund (DWB).

Wickop was u. a. next to Otto Wolfskehl long-time member of the board of the Darmstädter Musikverein, which was founded in 1832.

Wickop married his childhood sweetheart Anna Schumann in 1888. The couple's four children were born in Cologne: Lotte (1889), Walther (1890), Elsbeth (1891) and Otto (1892). The eldest son Walter Wickop (1890–1957) was also an architect and professor at the Technical University of Hanover. The children Anna (1897) and Margarete (1898) were born in Darmstadt.

In the autumn of 1912, Wickop fell ill with cancer. Despite an operation, he died in November 1914 at the age of 53 as a result of the disease. His grave is in the Darmstadt old cemetery (grave site: IV H 46).

plant

Mechanical engineering laboratory (1901–1904, photo 2009)
Extension of the Technical University of Darmstadt (1905–1908, historical postcard)
Extension of the Technical University of Darmstadt (1905–1908, around 2000)
Bismarck Tower in Constance

buildings

  • 1898: Richard Lepsius house in Darmstadt, Klappacher Strasse
  • 1901–1904: Mechanical engineering laboratory and power station of the Technical University of Darmstadt in Magdalenenstrasse, with steel construction from the company Donges-Stahlbau (Darmstadt); After bomb damage and a major fire in 1963, this was replaced by precast concrete angled panels from the Darmstädter Bausysteme concrete plant . The boiler house was demolished, the remaining components are under monument protection . In 2012, a lecture hall and seminar rooms were built into the machine hall with further use of the distribution stations for district heating, electricity, etc. The new lecture hall was handed over to the university in February 2013.
  • 1902–1905: twelve residential buildings (including 1902: House Wickop, Roquetteweg 45; 1903: House Klingelhöfer, Am Erlenberg 9) in the Paulusviertel (also "Inkviertel") in Darmstadt ( largely destroyed in the 1944 bombing )
  • 1904–1906: Synagogue of the Israelite (Orthodox) religious community Darmstadt in the Bleichstrasse (dome building with high, transparent floating dome, destroyed in 1938)
  • 1905–1908: Extension (west wing at Herrengarten) of the Technical University of Darmstadt
  • 1906: "Villa Nora" house for the quarry owner Ludwig Mathes in Hirschhorn (Neckar) (unholy design by Wickop as part of an official building consultancy )
  • 1911–1912: Bismarck Tower in Constance
  • 1912: Rothschild Brothers department store (today Henschel & Ropertz ) on the market square in Darmstadt (in collaboration with the architect Georg Küchler)
  • Residential houses (including for Mayor Rudolf Binding) in the villa colony of Buchschlag planned by Friedrich Pützer

Fonts

  • The technical universities and their future tasks in questions of civic and artistic education . Bergstrasse, Darmstadt 1912.

Honors

exhibition

  • 2013: Georg Wickop - architect and professor of the TH Darmstadt in the machine house of the Technical University (with catalog)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Wickop. In: Historical register of architects “archthek”. ( kmkbuecholdt.de ), accessed on June 9, 2010.
  2. ↑ Walther Wickop. In: Historical register of architects “archthek”. ( kmkbuecholdt.de ), accessed on June 9, 2010.
  3. ↑ Conversion of a technical monument. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 7, 2011, p. 60.
  4. ↑ Darmstadt's most beautiful lecture hall. In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. February 9, 2013, p. 51.
  5. ↑ Brief history of Villa Nora ( memento from July 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the German Factoring Institute .
  6. ↑ University professor, architect and preservationist. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. March 12, 2013, p. 43.
personal data
SURNAME Wickop, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1914
Place of death Darmstadt