Gustav Scholz (architect)

Gustav Scholz

Ernest Wilhelm Gustav Karlovich Scholz ( Russian Густав Карлович Шольц ; born March 12 ^{. Jul} / 24. March  1880 ^greg. In Ivanovskoe, Ujesd lgov ; † 12. May 1939 in Stalino ) was a German - Russian engineer and architect .

Life

Scholz, son of the architect Carl Scholz and his wife Ernestine nee Eckert, befriended Matveev Shtschawedlew in his youth in Ivanovskoye, who became his father's assistant and later became his own assistant. Scholz attended the Kursk secondary school (graduated in 1899) and then studied at the Riga Polytechnic . In 1902 he took Russian citizenship. During his studies he already took part in his father's work in Sumy . In 1908 he completed his studies as an engineer-architect in Riga with distinction.

After completing his studies, Scholz continued his late father's projects for the Pawel Iwanowitsch Charitonenkos sugar factories . He also continued the project financed by Kharitonenko and started in 1901 for the construction of the Trinity Cathedral in Sumy, with the mosaic floor being a project by Alexei Viktorovich Shtusev . Charitonenko's death in 1914 interrupted construction. After the First World War and the Russian Civil War , the building was used as a museum and house of organ music . It was not until 1996 that part of the cathedral was opened to the public. On July 1, 2013, a memorial plaque for Carl Scholz was attached to the Trinity Cathedral, to which his descendants had also come.

In 1908 Scholz married Witalija Nikolajewna Lenska, daughter of the chief engineer of the Pavlov sugar refinery Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Lenski and his wife Jelena von Raud. In addition to his father's projects, Scholz worked on the construction of the Zemstvo bank and the district court in Sumy and became the city architect of Sumy. During the First World War he served as a civil engineer at the front under Dmitri Mikhailovich Karbyshev and took part in the Brusilov offensive . In 1917 Scholz was brought back to Sumy for the inspection of the district court building.

Monument to the victims of the Stalinist purges on the Rukentschow field in Donetsk

After the October Revolution , Scholz went to Kharkov in 1919 and became head of the civil engineering department for the southern traffic route district. In 1922 he became head of the operations of the Ukrgosstroi Trust in Sumy. In 1924 he became deputy head of the Belgoroder Ukrgosstroi department. He took part in the reconstruction of the factories and in particular the Krasnaya Yaruga sugar factory built by his father . When the Ukrgosstroi merged into the Industroi in the spring of 1926, Scholz became a Rajon engineer of the Stanichno-Lugansk Raion . Among other things, he worked on the construction of hospitals in Sorokino , Rowenki , Brjanka , Sneschnoe and Krasny Lutsch . In 1929 he became chief engineer for the construction of the Stalino Mountain Institute and the student dormitories there. In Slavyansk he was involved in the construction of the Red Chemists soda factory . In 1931 he became chief engineer in Shostka for the construction of the thermal power station and the film factory . In 1932 he moved to Kharkov. After 1933 he was involved in building sugar factories in Kursk Oblast . Most recently he was chief engineer at the brick factory in Armavir .

On May 4, 1938, Scholz was arrested by the NKVD in Voroshilovgrad when he was visiting his son Viktor. After a year of investigation, he was finally sentenced and shot in Stalino. It rests in one of the mass graves of the victims of the Stalinist purges on the Rukentschow field in what was then Stalino and now Donetsk , on which a memorial created by the sculptor Alexander Nikolajewitsch Poroschnjuk and the architect Wladimir Butschek commemorates the victims since 2005 . His family was sent to Kazakhstan in 1941 after the start of the German-Soviet War . In 1991 Scholz was rehabilitated.

Works

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  Trinity Cathedral, Sumy

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  Zemstvo Bank, Sumy

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  District Court, Sumy

Web links

Commons : Familie Scholz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Шольц Густав Карлович - Биография (accessed March 16, 2018).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} City of Sumy: ШОЛЬЦ Густав Карлович ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2018 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. (accessed on March 16, 2018). 
3. ↑ Свято-Троицкий собор в г. Сумы (accessed March 13, 2018).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Архитекторы Шольцы - кто они? (accessed on March 13, 2018).
5. ↑ Архітектори Шольци (accessed March 13, 2018).
6. ↑ Памятник жертвам террора 1930–1940-х гг. (accessed on March 16, 2018).
7. ↑ Поле памяти, поле покаяния… (Взгляд участника раскопок в Рутченково двадцать лет спустя) (accessed March 16, 2018).