Gustav Zinnow

Karl Friedrich Gustav Zinnow (born January 26, 1846 in Berlin ; † January 8, 1934 in Hamburg ) was a German architect. Together with his partner Hugo Stammann , he shaped the Hamburg cityscape at the end of the 19th century with numerous residential and commercial buildings; Both achieved particular fame as co-builders of the Hamburg City Hall .

Life

Unlike his later partner, Zinnow came from a simple background: his ancestors were farmers, his father a stone cutter in Berlin. During the cholera epidemic , Zinnow lost both parents, was sent to an orphanage and later grew up with a great aunt. After secondary school he began an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and attended the building trade schools in Berlin and Holzminden . After completing his apprenticeship, he first worked for his teacher in Berlin before moving to Franz Georg Stammann's office in Hamburg in 1866 as a draftsman . At the same time, he was already working for his son Hugo Stammann , who took him on as a partner in 1873.

In the course of the building boom after the founding of the Reich in 1871, they built numerous residential and commercial buildings (including for the Norddeutsche Bank am Neuen Wall ), but also public contracts such as the renovation and expansion of the Thalia Theater built by Stammann senior , the Zollverein defeat of 1869/70 or the new building of the Heiligengeist Hospital in Eilbek in 1883. In 1892 Zinnow also built the - still existing - school building of the former Rumbaum School in Flora-Neumann-Straße 5 in the St. Pauli district. (see list of cultural monuments in Hamburg-St. Pauli )

As early as 1876, Stamman & Zinnow had joined forces with other architects ( Martin Haller , Bernhard Hanssen , Wilhelm Emil Meerwein and others) to form the so-called Rathausbaumeisterbund , based on whose designs the new town hall was built from 1886. Stammann & Zinnow designed the halls for the Hamburg citizenship .

After Hugo Stammann's death, Zinnow continued to run the office alone until the outbreak of war in 1914.

family

Zinnow married Bertha Philipine Beit in 1875 (* July 18, 1851, † July 22, 1907), a sister of Alfred Beit and Otto Beit .

literature

Jan Lubitz: Zinnow, Gustav . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 398-399 .

Web links

Commons : Stammann & Zinnow - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Henning Albrecht: Alfred Beit: Hamburger and diamond king . Ed .: Ekkehard Nümann. Hamburg Scientific Foundation, volume 9 (patrons of science). University Press, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-937816-82-1 , pp. 20 ( full text at d-nb.info [accessed on October 21, 2014]).

personal data
SURNAME	Zinnow, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zinnow, Karl Friedrich Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	January 26, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	January 8, 1934
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Henning Albrecht: Alfred Beit: Hamburger and diamond king . Ed .: Ekkehard Nümann. Hamburg Scientific Foundation, volume 9 (patrons of science). University Press, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-937816-82-1 , pp. 20 ( full text at d-nb.info [accessed on October 21, 2014]).