Gustav Voigtel

Gustav Voigtel

Gustav Voigtel (born May 29, 1834 in Cologne , † July 21, 1914 in Berlin ; full name Carl Ludwig Gustav Voigtel ) was a German architect and construction clerk in the Prussian civil service.

Life

Gustav Voigtel attended grammar school in his hometown of Cologne and in Königsberg , after which he went to the building academy and passed his construction manager examination on November 1, 1857. He found his first job in the construction department of the Prussian Ministry of Commerce from 1857 to 1861, and from 1858 to 1860 he was also the construction manager of the Oberpostdirektion in Arnsberg in Westphalia . In 1863 he passed his master builder examination and found a job in the building management of the Prussian army in Berlin. Until 1867 he worked here as a building inspector and from January 1, 1868 he became assistant to the ministerial building council in the Prussian war ministry .

Voigtel was then active as a government and building advisor until 1874, and from March 1882 he became a secret building advisor and lecturer at the War Ministry. From October 1887 he worked as a secret senior building officer and on December 10, 1888 he took over the management of the construction department in the War Ministry. From March 3 to December 13, 1897 he was a member of the Prussian Academy of Civil Engineering and, in 1891, chairman of the Berlin Architects' Association , in which he also became a board member in 1892.

buildings

Central building of the Prussian main cadet institute around 1900

Gustav Voigtel designed a number of buildings in Berlin in his role as building officer for the War Ministry. That included the

• Grenadier barracks (1863–1866, together with Ferdinand Fleischinger ) in Blücherstrasse ,
• the expansion of the War Ministry (1865–1867, with Fleischinger),
• the general staff at Königsplatz (1867–1871, together with Fleischinger and Christian Heinrich Goedeking, the construction management took over Hugo Steuer )
• the barracks in Köpenicker Straße (1869–1873, construction management tax)
• the Prussian main cadet institute in Lichterfelde (1871–1878, with Fleischinger and tax)
• the United Artillery and Engineering School in Charlottenburg (1873–1876, construction management CH Goedeking)
• the barracks on Kruppstrasse (1878–1881, together with Heimerdinger, site manager Oskar Appelius / R. La Pierre)
• the artillery depot on Kruppstrasse (1879, under the supervision of Appelius)
• the garrison church in Spandau (1887, design together with Ernst August Roßteuscher ).

He also designed the grave obelisk in the Turkish cemetery on Columbiadamm in 1867 on behalf of the Prussian Emperor Wilhelm I and the Turkish Sultan Abdülaziz .

literature

• Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century. In: Miniatures on the history, culture and monument preservation of Berlin. No. 17. Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1987.