Heinrich Köhler (architect)

Heinrich Köhler (born January 12, 1830 in Kassel , † February 20, 1903 in Hanover ; full name: Karl Heinrich Ludwig Köhler ) was a German architect and, as a university lecturer, Rector of the Technical University of Hanover from 1898 to 1901 . Some of his monumental villa buildings in the neo-renaissance style have been preserved in the Hanover cityscape.

Life

Villa at Schiffgraben 57 , in front of it a mobile sculpture installed in 2011

Heinrich Köhler attended the higher trade school and the art academy in Kassel and then worked in the office of the Hessian-Hanoverian railways . From 1856 to 1862 he worked in the office of the Paris- based architect Jakob Ignaz Hittorff , who came from Cologne , and worked on the Gare du Nord, among other things . He traveled to Italy , France and Greece for study purposes .

At the beginning of 1863 he became a teacher of architecture at the Polytechnic School in Hanover, where he taught form theory, designing public and private buildings, as well as monumental buildings and urban layouts. In 1868 he was appointed building officer, in 1878 professor, and in 1895 he became a secret councilor.

Around 1893 Köhler built his own house, the Villa Köhler , at Am Holzgraben 1 at the corner of Wedekindstrasse .

From 1898 to 1901 Köhler was the rector of the university. He was buried in the Engesohde city cemetery , where his tomb can still be seen.

With his work in the neo-renaissance style, he formed a counterpoint to Conrad Wilhelm Hase , who represented the style of the Hanover architecture school .

family

Two of Koehler's stepdaughters married Hanoverian artists,

• Irmgard, daughter of the Linden factory owner Johann Egestorff , the architect and Bernhard Roß dubbed the professor
• and Martha the sculptor Georg Herting .

plant

Karmarsch Memorial (1883)

buildings

• 1863: House Bahlsen , Georgstraße 39 (destroyed in the war)
• 1867: houses at Schiffgraben 38 and 39 (demolished in 1950 in favor of Berliner Allee )
• 1872–1877: A group of villas in the late Classicist style. The houses at Emmichplatz 4 and Am Schiffgraben 53 and 57 have been preserved . Originally also the houses at Schiffgraben 31 to 37 and Finkenstraße 5 (partly destroyed in the war, partly demolished). The house at Schiffgraben 34 was the Villa de Haën .
• 1883: Karl Karmarsch Monument, Georgstraße (together with the sculptor Oskar Rassau )
• 1888: Semi-detached house Schiffgraben 25 / 25a (demolished in 1974 in favor of the new Tretower building )
• around 1893: Villa Köhler , Am Holzgraben 1 (1911–1914 rented to Field Marshal Paul von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg , today the seat of the Gundlach construction company)
• 1894–1898: Exhibition halls for the Hanover Trade Association, Georgsplatz (demolished in 1960 for a new building for Deutsche Bank AG )
• 1901: Tomb for Emil Meyer (1841–1899) in the Stöcken city cemetery (Section 1, No. 1)

Fonts

• Polychrome masterpieces of monumental art in Italy from the 5th to the 16th centuries Century. Represented by 12 perspective views in color print. With explanatory text by Heinrich Köhler , Leipzig: Baumgärtner, 1870; Digital copy of the Dresden State and University Library (SLUB)
• Four grave monuments in the cemetery on Engesohder Berge in Hanover , three mostly illustrated pages in: Journal of the Architects and Engineers Association of Hanover , 1896, issue 4, p.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Hanover

literature

• German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 5, p. 651.
• Wilhelm Rothert : General Hanoverian biography. Volume 1: Hanoverian men and women since 1866. Sponholtz, Hanover 1912, p. 351.
• Koehler, Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 121 .
• Architects and Engineers Association Hanover (Ed.), Theodor Unger (Red.): Hanover. Guide through the city and its buildings. Commemorative publication for the fifth general assembly of the Association of German Architects and Engineers. Klindworth, Hannover 1882, p. 165, p. 185-188, p. 201 ff. And ö.
  • as a reprint : Vincentz, Hannover 1978, ISBN 3-87870-154-3 .
  • as a reprint: Europäische Hochschulverlag, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86741-493-7 .
• Alexander Dorner : 100 years of building in Hanover. For the centenary of the technical university. Edler & Krische, Hannover 1931, p. 22f.
• Alheidis von Rohr : Bourgeois living culture of the 19th century in Hanover. Booklet accompanying the exhibition of the same name in the Historisches Museum Hannover, Historisches Museum, Hannover 1987, p. 9, p. 38, p. 46.
• Friedrich Lindau : Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural identity. 2nd edition, Schlütersche, Hannover 2001, ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , p. 328.
• N / A: Heinrich Köhler in Hanover †. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung . 37th year 1903, No. 17 (from February 28, 1903), p. 111 (obituary).
• "H. St. “: Heinrich Köhler †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . 23rd year 1903, No. 19, March 7, 1903, p. 122 f. (Obituary).
• Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hanover 1931, p. 94.
• Journal of the German Association for Art History. Volume 35, 1981.
• Helmut Knocke : Köhler, Karl Heinrich Ludwig. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 204 a. ö. ( books.google.de ).
• Helmut Knocke: Köhler, Karl Heinrich Friedrich. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 358.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Helmut Knocke: Köhler, Karl Heinrich Ludwig , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon ... , 2002, p. 204; limited preview in Google Book search
2. ↑ ^{a b} Detlef HO Kopmann: Wedekindstrasse - From the villa district to the thoroughfare. In: Oststadt Journal , February 2007 edition;
   online ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2012 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. on the page hannover-oststadt.de , ed. by Eckhard von Knorre, Achim Sohns, Uwe Brennenstuhl (District Information System Hannover-Oststadt), last accessed on February 25, 2013. 
3. ^ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - Online bibliography: Heinrich Köhler, accessed on April 16, 2010.
4. ↑ Compare this certified copy from the main register of the Hanover registry office of January 23, 1951 about the wedding of Georg Herting and Martha Köhler on August 1, 1905
5. ^ Information board 62 of the City of Hanover , accessed on a private website on April 16, 2010.
6. ↑ Sid Auffarth , Wolfgang Pietsch: The University of Hanover: their buildings, their gardens, their planning history. Verlag Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2003, ISBN 3-935590-90-3 , p. 116.