Hugo Steuer

Hugo Hermann Albert Steuer (born September 16, 1829 in Gleiwitz , † September 15, 1908 in Berlin ) was a German architect and military builder.

Life

Hugo Steuer was the son of the medical officer Leopold Wilhelm Steuer. He attended high school in Sagan / Silesia. After graduating from high school in 1847, he went to Berlin and trained as a surveyor until 1849 . After a probationary year, he worked as a Baueleve until April 1851. In March 1851 he began studying at the School of Architecture and laid in July 1853, the Bauführerprüfung from. He was employed in Glogau until October 1853 and was then in charge of the improvement buildings in Obra- Bruch until April 1854 . By February 1856 he worked on several road construction works for the Opole government and was then with the Upper Silesian Railway until the end of May 1857 . Then he went back to Berlin and worked in the Ministry of Public Works until the end of May 1859. In July 1859 he passed the master builder examination. In 1860 he entered the service of the military administration as a dietetic master builder at the directorate of the Guard Corps and in 1863 became second garrison builder.

In January 1864 he married Pauline Hensel († 1908) in Tarnowitz .

In 1866 he was appointed royal land builder, in 1869 first garrison builder and in 1870 building inspector. During his time in Berlin, in addition to being a site manager for Ferdinand Fleischinger and Gustav Voigtel , he also did his own work. From 1873 to 1876 he was a board member of the architects' association . In July 1877 he was a structural auditor for the V. and VI. Army corps in Breslau and, in September 1877, director and building officer. After retiring as a secret building officer in 1891, he returned to Berlin.

Own works

• 1867–1869: Landwehr service building, Kaiser-Franz-Platz 11/12 (today Heinrich-Heine-Platz, no longer available)
• 1870–1872: Garrison Administration I, Michaelkirchplatz 17 (no longer available)
• 1871–1873: Barracks behind the armory 1 (on the site of the old casting house, no longer available, today the location of the extension of the German Historical Museum )
• 1873/74: Kaiser Wilhelm Military Medical Academy on Reichstagufer 17 (no longer available, today the location of the so-called Tränenpalast )

Construction management

• 1859/60: Provision magazine and jury building in Brandenburg an der Havel
• 1864/65: Grain magazine of the Proviantamt in Köpenicker Straße (with Bernhard)
• 1867–1871: General staff building on Königsplatz (design by Fleischinger / Voigtel / Christian Heinrich Gödeking)
• 1869–1873: Kaserne Köpenicker Straße 12 (design by Voigtel)
• 1871–1878: Cadet Institute in Lichterfelde (design by Fleischinger / Voigtel)
• 1875–1878: Barracks complex Blücher- / Gneisenau- / Scheiermacher- / Bärwalder Straße (with August Busse and Otto Heimerdinger, design by Fleischinger)

literature

• GStA PK, VI. HA, NI Steuer, H.
• Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1986, p. 86 .
• Uwe Kieling: Berlin - Builders and Buildings: From Gothic to Historicism . 1st edition. Tourist Verl., Berlin; Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-350-00280-3 , p. 216 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Steuer, H., Go. Building Councilor a. D. In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1893, part 1, p. 1340.