Gustav Ulrich (monument conservator)

Gustav Ulrich (born November 14, 1880 in Wörlitz , † August 18, 1971 in Lilienthal ) was a German architect , construction officer and preservationist .

biography

Ulrich studied at the Technical University of Darmstadt . In 1913 he came to Bremen as a state master builder and was appointed to the building council in the Bremen building administration. After 1918 he carried out several major renovations in Bremen: from 1922 to 1924 the old workhouse on the Herrlichkeit, in 1925 the renovation of the Focke Museum and from 1927 to 1930 security measures at the Bremen town hall . From 1913 to 1915 he planned the primary school Am Hulsberg (preserved), from 1925 to 1926 with Hans Ohnesorge the Rotersand barracks in the Bürgermeister-Smidt-Straße in Bremerhaven (preserved), then the employment office on Bürenstraße (preserved as a renovation) and the water - and Shipping Directorate on the Tiefer (destroyed in the war).

In 1933 he was dismissed from civil service by the National Socialists for racial reasons. During the Nazi period, he was in charge of the buildings of 33 parishes.

Since October 1945 he has been entrusted by the Senate with the preservation of historical monuments and head of the city's office for the preservation of monuments . Soon afterwards, he initiated the rebuilding of the Bremen city ​​scales from 1586 to 1588 in Langenstrasse from Lüder von Bentheim ; In 1953 the reconstruction was interrupted. The reconstruction of the commercial building from 1620 was also started in 1951 against all kinds of resistance. The preservation of monuments was able to secure and save many components of destroyed historical buildings. In 1950 he became an honorary member of the Lower Saxony People's Association . In 1952 he retired. His successor was Rudolf Stein .

See also

Preservation of monuments in Bremen

literature

• Werner Kloos : Bremen Lexicon. Hauschild, Bremen 1980, ISBN 3-920699-31-9 .
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .