Jürgen Kroeger

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Jürgen Kroeger

Jürgen Kröger (born November 16, 1856 in Haale , † February 27, 1928 in Innien ) was a German architect , he was entitled "(Imperial) Building Officer " and is best known as a Protestant church builder . The local poet Timm Kröger was his uncle.

Life

In 1873 Kröger began training with master carpenter Göttsche in Hohenwestedt . He graduated from the Eckernförde building trade school in 1880 with distinction. He then worked as a construction technician in a construction department of the War Ministry in Hamburg-Altona , before the well-known architect Johannes Otzen brought him to his office in Berlin in 1882 . There he went into business for himself in 1888 and in the following decades built numerous Protestant churches, preferably in the neo-Gothic style at the beginning . His greatest successes included the construction of the main train station in Metz and the new head post office in Metz. At the inauguration on August 17, 1908, Kaiser Wilhelm II also appeared , who a few days later appointed Kröger as imperial building officer. From 1919 he lived in Aukrug-Innien, where he still designed and built houses and memorials in retirement .

Gravestone in the cemetery in Aukrug

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literature

  • Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (ed.): Berlin and its buildings. Part 6: Sacred buildings. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 .
  • Dombrowsky, Helma and Liss-Walther, Joachim: ... and Ansgar smiled: 100 years Ansgar Church in Kiel. Festschrift , Lutherische Verlagsgesellschaft, pp. 20–23, 2003, ISBN 9783875031102
  • Peter Genz: Jürgen Kröger - An architect between historicism and premodern. In: Nordelbingen. 72, 2003, ISSN  0078-1037 , pp. 131-160 (also special print).
  • State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony (Ed.): City of Leipzig. Part: Heinrich Magirius : The sacred buildings. With an overview of the urban development from the beginnings to 1989. Volume 2. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-422-00568-4 ( Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler von Sachsen. ), (For the Taborkirche see: p. 1265ff. ).
  • Barbara Löwe: 100 years of the Altenburg Brothers Church. Beier and Beran, Langenweißbach 2005, ISBN 3-937517-21-9 , ( The small sacred art guide. Issue 9).
  • Hartmut Mai: Churches in Saxony. From classicism to art nouveau. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig et al. 1992, ISBN 3-7338-0081-8 .
  • nn: From the Haal village school to the imperial building officer. In: Landeszeitung. April 27, 2006.
  • Georg Reimer : The History of the Aukrugs. Published by Heinrich Bünger. 3rd expanded edition. Verlag Möller Sons, Rendsburg 1978.
    • Heinrich Asmus, Werner Hauschildt, Peter Höhne: Update of "The History of the Aukrugs". from 1978 and supplements. Schmidt & Klaunig, Aukrug et al. 1995.

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Kröger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weekly supplement of the Schlesische Zeitung 1926 for the 25th anniversary of the church
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Special exhibition The Krögers from Haale in the Hohenwestedt local history museum , 11/2015
  3. ↑ Erwin Frischka et al. Siegfried Geiger: Chronik Gnutz, 1998, p. 19
  4. ↑ Georg Reimer: Die Geschichte des Aukrugs, 1978, p. 220
personal data
SURNAME Kröger, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German imperial building officer and church builder
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Haale , Schleswig-Holstein
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1928
Place of death Aukrug , Schleswig-Holstein