Julius Habicht

Julius Habicht (born January 19, 1874 in Elberfeld (today a district of Wuppertal ), † October 1, 1912 Berlin ) was a German architect who worked as a construction director at the Reichsbank .

Life

After school, architecture studies and legal clerkship in public construction, Habicht passed the second state examination to become a government architect ( assessor ). In 1905 he got a job in the construction office of the Reichsbank, where he rose to become Reichsbank construction director .

Most of the new buildings of the Reichsbank at this time were based on Habicht's designs, but in individual cases the Reichsbank construction office also collaborated with private architects.

Habicht's defiant stone buildings use elements of the ancient classical period such as pillars and relief panels. All Reichsbank buildings stand out from the multitude of historicist bank buildings as a formally closed group; their design conveyed the desired “imperial unity”. Architecture critics also refer to the style as "Reichsbank historicism". From 1908, Habicht worked with the building ceramist John Martens to produce the facade decorations . Habicht had been a member of the German Werkbund since 1912 .

Grave of the Habicht family in Schmargendorf

The architect was married to Gertraud Habicht (1881–1966). After his untimely death he was buried in the Schmargendorf cemetery. The grave is under monument protection because of the artistic execution by Josef Rauch .

Philipp Nitze was his successor at the Reichsbank .

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1906–1907: Reichsbank branch Schwäbisch Gmünd , Ledergasse 67 (sold to private owners as a city villa in 2004)
1906: Reichsbank headquarters in Thorn , today the University Museum
1906–1907 Reichsbank office in Berlin-Charlottenburg
1907–1908: House for Carl von Grimm in Berlin-Westend , Platanenallee 14 (under monument protection)
1909–1910: Reichsbank headquarters in Mannheim , Bauerstraße / Marienstraße
1910–1911: Reichsbank -stelle Essen , An der Reichsbank 15 (destroyed in the Second World War, modernly rebuilt on the same floor plan)
1911–1912: Reichsbank office in Katowice
1912–1913: Reichsbank branch in Rixdorf , Ganghoferstraße 2 (under monument protection)

The building of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Bank für Grundbesitz AG ( Mitteldeutsche Creditbank since 1919 , Commerz- und Privatbank AG since 1929 ) in Essen, built between 1900 and 1907 and destroyed in World War II, is also attributed to Julius Habicht.

In a reprint of the magazine Der Profanbau that appeared after his death, the following other buildings are mentioned or illustrated:

Reichsbank branches in Altena , Arnswalde , Briesen (West Prussia) , Elmshorn , Detmold , Eickel , Emmerich , Gnesen , Jauer , Goch , Hamborn , Kolberg , Hattingen , Langenbielau , Leer (East Frisia) , Gladbeck , Langenberg (Rhineland) , Lüneburg , Werder , Mühlhausen (Thuringia) , Neisse , Sonderburg , Schwelm , Stallupönen , Striegau , Rendsburg , Wittenberg , Offenburg , Oldenburg and Freiburg (Silesia)
Reichsbank offices in Elbing , Göttingen , Hagen and Siegen
Reichsbank headquarters in Nuremberg
Commercial building of the bank for trade and industry (Darmstädter Bank) in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse

literature

Hugo Licht (ed.), Philipp Nitze (preface): Julius Habicht, Berlin. (= Special edition of the journal Der Profanbau ) JJ Arndt, Leipzig undated (approx. 1912/1913).
Margit Heinker: The Architecture of the Deutsche Reichsbank 1876–1918. Münster 1998, ISBN 3-00-003732-2 .
Lidia Gerc: Architektura Banku Rzeszy w Toruniu na tle dzialalnosci budowlanej Juliusa Habichta (The architecture of the Reichsbank zu Thorn against the background of the building activity of Julius Habicht). Dissertation.

Web links

Irma Kozina: Julius Habicht as the architect of the Reichsbanken in Upper Silesia . (PDF; 103 kB) Event by architectural historians in Potsdam in 2001, accessed April 16, 2009

Individual evidence

^ Membership directory of the Deutscher Werkbund from 1912 ( Memento from April 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Architectural monument wall grave Julius Habicht
↑ Where the D-Mark became the Euro. ( Memento from January 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Gmünder Tagespost , September 4, 2004
↑ Homepage of the museum (Polish)
↑ Architectural monument in Westend
^ German Architecture Forum , accessed on April 16, 2009.
↑ Architectural monument Reichsbank branch Neukölln
^ Hugo Licht (ed.), Philipp Nitze (preface): Julius Habicht, Berlin. (= Special edition of the journal Der Profanbau ) JJ Arndt, Leipzig undated (approx. 1912/1913).

personal data
SURNAME	Hawk, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	January 19, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH	Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH	October 1, 1912
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Membership directory of the Deutscher Werkbund from 1912 ( Memento from April 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Architectural monument wall grave Julius Habicht

[3] Where the D-Mark became the Euro. ( Memento from January 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Gmünder Tagespost , September 4, 2004

[4] Homepage of the museum (Polish)

[5] Architectural monument in Westend

[6] German Architecture Forum , accessed on April 16, 2009.

[7] Architectural monument Reichsbank branch Neukölln

[8] Hugo Licht (ed.), Philipp Nitze (preface): Julius Habicht, Berlin. (= Special edition of the journal Der Profanbau ) JJ Arndt, Leipzig undated (approx. 1912/1913).