Jacob Koerfer

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Jacob Koerfer (born September 14, 1875 in Aachen , † November 26, 1930 in Cologne ; full name: Jacob Servae Hubert Koerfer ) was a German architect .

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Koerfer grew up with his brothers Nikolaus Koerfer and Franz Hubert Koerfer and his sisters Josefine and Anna Gertrud Koerfer in Aachen. His father Michael Koerfer died in 1895. After attending primary school, he began training in the studio of the architect Hermann Joseph Hürth . In 1901 he married Hubertine (Berta) Kochs in Aachen and shortly afterwards went to Cologne, where he accepted a job as an architect at the building construction department of the city of Cologne.

Gravestone of Jacob Koerfer and his family in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (February 2019)

At the age of 26 he had the first opportunity to plan and carry out a larger building on his own. After the fire station was completed , he got the job for the Kaiserin-Augusta-Lyceum, a high school for girls. During the construction, Koerfer opened his own studio in 1906 and gave up his job at the building construction department in order to work exclusively as a freelance architect afterwards. From 1907 Koerfer devoted himself to residential construction. He built several houses with apartments for the upper middle class in the Klettenberg district . At the same time, he was also his own builder. His apartment buildings made him financially independent, so that he could freely implement his architectural skills and ideas. In 1910 he founded the company "Schweitzer & Koerfer" with the builder Leopold Schweitzer . They built mostly luxury apartments and villas until the company was dissolved in 1918.

In 1930 Jakob Koerfer died at the age of 55 and was buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (grave site: MA, between HWG and lit. P). His early death is said to be due to a delayed gallbladder inflammation with sepsis in the abdomen , which he is said to have contracted out of excitement over fatal false reports in the Kölnische Zeitung about his bankruptcy . His widow sued the newspaper for payment of damages up to the judgment of the Reichsgericht of June 20, 1936.

Awards (selection)

Jakob Koerfer received an honorary doctorate in engineering from the Technical University of Braunschweig on January 18, 1926 and shortly before his death (1929) he became an honorary professor without being able to take up his teaching position.

Buildings and designs (selection)

Schwerthof in Cologne
Frontier Guard House in Aachen
Germany House in Essen
  • 1902–1907: Kaiserin-Augusta-Lyzeum, Cologne, Karthäuserwall 44/50
  • 1921–1922: Schwerthof office and commercial building , Cologne, Zeppelinstrasse / Neumarkt (together with Theodor Veil )
  • 1922–1923: Industriehof office and commercial building , Cologne, Krebsgasse
  • 1923–1924: Mühlenhof office and commercial building, Cologne, Mühlenbach, renovation in 1928
  • 1924–1925: Hansahochhaus office and commercial building with cinema, Cologne, Hansaring
  • 1928: -9999Europa-Palast office building with cinema, Düsseldorf , Graf-Adolf-Straße (destroyed)
  • 1928–1929: Deutschlandhaus office and commercial building , Essen , Lindenallee / Hirschlandplatz
  • 1928–1929: Westfalenhaus office and commercial building with cinema, Dortmund , Kampstrasse / Hansastrasse (heavily modified)
  • 1928–1929: Capitol cinema , Cologne, between Bismarckstrasse and Hohenzollernring (destroyed by the war)
  • 1929–1930: Grenzwacht office and commercial building with cinema (further construction of the previously abandoned Lochnerhaus), Aachen , Bahnhofsplatz / Römerstraße / Hackländerstraße

literature

Web links

Commons : Jacob Koerfer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RGZ 148, 154
  2. ↑ When the Imperial Court took the DuMont publishing house to the curb - death of a master builder in 1930. In: LTO.de. August 9, 2020, accessed August 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Technische Universität Braunschweig ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 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. , accessed October 6, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fk3.tu-braunschweig.de
  4. ^ Catrin Menne-Thomé:  Koerfer, Jacob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 376 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Koerfer, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koerfer, Jacob Servae Hubert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1930
Place of death Cologne