Johann Jacob Help

Johann Jacob Helfft (born August 8, 1802 in Berlin ; † December 9, 1869 ibid.) Was a German architect and construction clerk .

In 1824 Johann Jacob Helfft was a co-founder of the Berlin Architects' Association . After passing his architectural examination in 1826, he was employed as a construction manager at the Ministerial Building Commission, the War Ministry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1834 he worked as a conductor at the chief construction deputation, was promoted to land master builder on March 1, 1835, and in November 1837 to building inspector and around 1847 to building officer at the ministerial building commission.

Buildings in Berlin

• 1829–1831 Construction management Gardekaserne Charlottenstraße (based on a design by Georg Karl Hampel)
• 1832–1835 worked as a conductor at the Nazareth , Pauls and Johanniskirche (based on designs by Karl Friedrich Schinkel )
• 1844 Köpenicker Tor (adaptation of the design by August Stüler )
• 1845–1850 Technical management for the construction of the Landwehr Canal (design and overhead management: Peter Joseph Lenné )
• 1848 Construction management Mühlendammspeicher (based on a design by Ludwig Persius )
• 1850 Construction management for the eastern part of the northern Mühlendammhallen
• 1852 Treptower Bridge

Fonts

• Encyclopedic dictionary of agricultural art for cameralists, architects, building craftsmen and the building industry , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1836

literature

• Wilhelm Koner: Scholars Berlin in 1845. Directory of writers living in Berlin in 1845 and their works , Berlin 1846, p. 141
• Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century . Biographical Lexicon . Society for Local History and for Monument Preservation in the Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1986, p. 41

Web links

• Landwehr Canal in the Berlin monument database