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Gustav Bastel (born April 26, 1878 in Loitsche , † May 20, 1956 in Greifswald ; full name Gustav Wilhelm Heinrich Bastel ) was a German city ​​builder and architect in Greifswald. In the 1920s and 1930s he helped shape the image of the Greifswald suburbs .

Life

The son of the farmer Karl Friedrich August Bastel (1843–1920) attended elementary school in Loitsche in the Wolmirstedt district . In March 1897 he completed his studies at the art and building trade school in Magdeburg with an exam. He then worked as a construction technician in various companies in Koblenz and Groß-Lichterfelde until 1900 . From 1900 to 1902 he worked on flood control projects for the Elbstrom construction administration .

In 1902 he became a construction technician at the Greifswald city building authority. Under the guidance of the city architect Friedrich Johannes Haas (1843–1927) he worked on the construction of the city's power station. In 1903 he was in charge of the new construction of the Steinbeck Bridge over the Ryck . In 1905 he was appointed second town planning assistant. In 1912/1913 he built the first crematorium in the province of Pomerania in the Greifswald new cemetery . In 1913 he went on study trips to Berlin , Stettin , Cologne and Frankfurt am Main , where he found out about larger city buildings and exemplary primary school buildings. An elementary school for boys was built in Greifswalder Bleichstrasse from 1912 to 1916 according to his plans. He supervised the construction of the town hall and the theater .

After he was called up for military service during the First World War , he was given the post of Greifswald city architect in October 1919. He carried out various construction projects in the city, such as the Gebrüder-Witte-Straße in 1919, the Volksstadion in 1926–1927 , Franz-Mehring-Straße and Feldstraße in 1930, and the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt School in 1932 and the beginning the construction of the suburban settlement. He made a meritorious contribution to urban development with the residential building program he developed on Wolgaster Strasse, which extended to the Bismarck Column.

Gustav Bastel was retired on July 4, 1945. He worked as an architect for the Pomeranian regional church . Among other things, he led the restoration of the Annenkapelle at Greifswald's Marienkirche .

Gustav Bastel died in 1956 and was buried in the old cemetery . He was married to Hermine Meyer (1883-1959) since 1905. Her son Günther Bastel (1920–1941) died in World War II .

literature

• Hans Reddemann : The listed old cemetery in the university and Hanseatic city of Greifswald. Part III, Greifswald 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-027660-6 , pp. 18-19.

Web links

• Literature about Gustav Bastel in the state bibliography MV