Gustav Erdmann (architect)

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Erdmann family crypt in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin

Gustav Erdmann (born August 8, 1853 ; † January 29, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German architect , building contractor and real estate developer .

Life

Gustav Erdmann was a trained bricklayer and partner in a company for building materials, asphalt and other building materials in Berlin-Tiergarten . He also opened a studio for architecture and arts and crafts in 1884 with his brother-in-law, the architect Ernst Spindler (1854–1916) , which also carried out construction work. The studio moved to Linkstrasse 29 in 1887.

Since the 1880s, the Erdmann und Spindler studio has built a large number of villas in the Berlin suburbs as well as residential and commercial buildings in Berlin and the neighboring cities. They both lived in self-designed villas in Zehlendorf . From 1885, Erdmann headed the Association of Berlin Architects , an association of private architects in Berlin , for two years . He also sat on the supervisory boards of various companies.

Erdmann's large undertakings also include the development of a settlement area in southwest Berlin, between Unter den Eichen (formerly Berlin-Potsdamer Chaussee) in the north, the Berlin-Potsdam railway in the south, Drakestrasse in the west and the border to Steglitz in East. Until 1903 the approximately 25 hectare area was owned by the private banker Georg Fromberg and the family of the architect Gustav Erdmann. The New Botanical Garden was the main attraction of the area . In 1897 it was moved from what was then the outskirts of Berlin (today's Kleistpark on Potsdamer Strasse) to a site opposite the development area, where it has been open to the public since 1904.

Fromberg and Erdmann sold their terrain features to the recently by themselves, with the participation of the National Bank of Germany founded terrain Society at the New Botanical Garden . Their purpose was the utilization of this area. Among others, Ernst Spindler sat on the supervisory board. The staffing of the terrestrial company reveals the close ties between all interested parties involved. The company's directors were the merchants Franz Hentschke and Leopold Northmann. The latter had been a board member of the company Allgemeine Häuserbau-Actien-Gesellschaft (AHAG) since 1889 , which, unlike the Terraingesellschaft, operated locally in the Berlin property trade. Gustav Erdmann sat on the AHAG supervisory board. Close cooperation with private and municipal bodies was of crucial importance for architects in order to secure a good order situation.

The construction of a station on the Berlin-Potsdamer Railway was obvious at that time, as the area stretched exactly between the Steglitz and Lichterfelde-West stations along the railway line. Erdmann and Spindler were responsible for planning the S-Bahn station; it was opened in 1909. There is a memorial plaque for the architects in the entrance area.

From 1889 Erdmann opened up Bauterrain in Neu-Schöneberg , and his company succeeded in attracting financial backers. Erdmann and Spindler built entire streets with five-story residential buildings in the vicinity of Schöneberger Helmstrasse. Because of these services to the municipality, Street 13 in the development plan was named Erdmannstrasse in 1890 . Helmstrasse (between Hauptstrasse and Crellestrasse) has an entrance to Erdmannstrasse, which leads to today's Langenscheidtstrasse.

Gustav Erdmann was buried in a family crypt in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery, whose tomb he designed himself in 1897, and in which his brother-in-law and partner Ernst Spindler was buried in 1916.

Buildings and designs

  • Building of the fire insurance bank for Germany in Gotha

  • Dammsmühle Castle in Schönwalde (Barnim)

  • Manor on Gut Wonsowo

  • Tomb for Emil Götze in Berlin-Westend

  • Tomb of the Köthner family in Berlin-Kreuzberg

  • Building of the Sparkasse in Gotha

  • Botanischer Garten S-Bahn station in Berlin-Lichterfelde

  • 1877–1878: Chapel, administration building and gate system for Sophien-Kirchhof III in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen, Freienwalder Straße 19b ( attributed to Erdmann ; listed)
  • 1886–1887: Pension fund of the Kaiser Wilhelm and Kaiserin Augusta Foundation in Berlin, Schulstrasse 98 (together with Hermann Blankenstein )
  • 1886–1888 and 1896: Administration building for the general agency of the Thuringian district of the fire insurance bank for Germany in Gotha, Bebelstraße 10 (under monument protection; today House II of the education center of the Thuringian state administration)
  • 1887: Colony buildings A and B of the manor of the Dalldorf insane asylum in Berlin-Wittenau , Eichborndamm 238/240
  • 1887–1888: Chapel, administration building and gate system for St.-Elisabeth-Kirchhof II in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen, Wollankstraße 66 (under monument protection)
  • 1890: Development of the Erdmannstrasse building area in Berlin-Schöneberg
  • 1890: Villa for the banker Franz Ebeling in Berlin-Wannsee, Kronprinzessinnenweg 10a
  • 1892: Development of the Helmstrasse building area in Berlin-Schöneberg
  • 1892–1893: Chapel in the Holy Cross cemetery in Berlin-Mariendorf , Eisenacher Strasse 62, image
  • around 1894: Administration building of the life insurance bank for Germany in Berlin, Zimmerstrasse 87
  • around 1895: Reconstruction and expansion of Dammsmühle Castle
  • 1895–1897: Retirement home of the Foundation of the Hospitals of the Holy Spirit and St. Georg in Berlin, Reinickendorfer Straße 59 (with Hermann Blankenstein and Richard Hoßfeld; under monument protection)
  • around 1900 (?): Reconstruction and extension of the manor house on Gut Wonsowo for Friedrich Wilhelm von Hardt in Wonsowo (Province of Posen) (today Wąsowo , Poland)
  • 1900: Building of the Actien-Brauerei-Gesellschaft Moabit in Berlin-Moabit, Stromstrasse / Turmstrasse (not preserved)
  • 1902–1903: House for the doctor Georg Pasewaldt in Berlin-Zehlendorf, Teltower Damm 14 (under monument protection)
  • 1904: Competition design for the development of a building block in Berlin-Charlottenburg (awarded one of four equal prizes)
  • 1904: Competition draft for a commercial college in Berlin (not executed)
  • 1905–1906: Building of the Sparkasse for the Duchy of Gotha in Gotha, Lutherstrasse 2
  • 1908–1909: Villa for the merchant Paul Bartsch in Berlin-Zehlendorf, Dubrowstrasse 14
  • 1908–1909: Botanical Garden S-Bahn station in Berlin-Lichterfelde
  • 1914–1915: Bankhaus Ebeling in Berlin, Jägerstrasse 54–55 (today the Greek embassy in Berlin , the restaurant “Vau” in the associated house)

Tombs

  • 1897: Tomb of the Erdmann family in the old St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Berlin-Schöneberg
  • 1902: Tomb for Consul Hermann Fraenkel in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißsensee
  • 1902: Tomb for Kammersänger Emil Götze on Luisenfriedhof III in Berlin-Westend
  • published 1904: Tomb of the Köthner family on the Friedrichswerder cemetery in Berlin-Kreuzberg

literature

Web links

Commons : Gustav Erdmann (architect)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Erdmann in historismus.findbuch.net ; Retrieved July 22, 2015
  2. ↑ Celina Kress: Adolf Sommerfeld, Andrew Sommerfield. Building for Berlin 1910–1970. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-081-8 , p. 61 f. ( books.google.de ).
  3. ↑ Erdmannstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  4. ↑ Chapel and graves on Sophienkirchhof II in the Berlin State Monument List (actually it is Sophienkirchhof III - compare Cemetery II of the Sophiengemeinde Berlin , section Other cemeteries of the Sophiengemeinde , or the interactive map linked from the State Monument List!)
  5. ↑ Kaiser Wilhelm and Kaiserin Augusta Foundation in the Berlin State Monument List
  6. ↑ Manor of the Dalldorf insane asylum in the Berlin State Monument List
  7. ↑ Gate, churchyard administration, chapel (...) on St.-Elisabeth-Kirchhof II in the Berlin State Monument List
  8. ↑ Foundation The Hospitals of the Holy Spirit and St. George in the Berlin State Monument List
  9. ↑ History of the Wasowo Manor ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed on July 10, 2015 (The date "1870–1872" originally reproduced here is unlikely, as Erdmann was only 17 years old in 1870, so he was not even of legal age in 1872. The authorship of Erdmann (and Spindler) is probably related to the expansion mentioned there around 1900.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wasowo.pl
  10. ↑ Wąsowo and Nowy Tomyśl ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.viajournal.de , last accessed on July 10, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.viajournal.de
  11. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , 3rd year 1900/1901, issue 6 (September 1900), p. 204 f.
  12. ↑ Villa Pasewaldt in the Berlin State Monument List
  13. ^ Ernst Spindler: The last Berlin residential building competition. In: Berliner Architekturwelt. 7th year 1904/1905, Issue 8 (November 1904), europeanalocal.de ( memento of the original from July 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 17.2 MB), p. 273 ff. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / europeanalocal.de
  14. ↑ Berlin architecture world. 7th year 1904/1905, issue 8 (November 1904), p. 293 ff.
  15. ↑ Residential building at Dubrowstrasse 14 in the Berlin State Monument List
  16. ↑ Bankhaus Ebeling on architektur-bildarchiv.de, accessed on July 10, 2015.
  17. ^ Erdmann family crypt (Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof) on grabpatenschaften-berlin.de, accessed on July 10, 2015.
  18. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , 6th year 1903/1904, issue 2 (May 1903), kobv.de (PDF; 7.2 MB), p. 43 (text), p. 65 (illustrations).
  19. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , 6th year 1903/1904, issue 2 (May 1903), p. 43 (text), p. 66 and p. 68 (illustrations).
  20. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , 7th year 1904/1905, issue 5 (September 1904), p. 180 (illustration).
personal data
SURNAME Erdmann, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1853
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1923
Place of death Berlin