Julius Manger

Heinrich Gustav Julius Manger (born December 9, 1802 in Potsdam ; † 1874 ) was a German architect and university professor .

Live and act

Julius Manger was the son of the Potsdam government building officer Heinrich Konrad Manger and the grandson of the Oberhof building officer, garden inspector and pomologist Heinrich Ludwig Manger , who built the New Palace in Potsdam. In 1815 he came to Liegnitz , where his father had been transferred as a councilor. There he attended high school and then until 1820 the royal knight academy. After preparations in Berlin at the building academy and in private lectures, he took the surveyor's examination in 1821 and was then employed by the government in Liegnitz, where he was responsible for road and bridge construction. In 1824 he was promoted to surveying auditor and went to Schweidnitz . This was followed by studies at the Bauakademie in Berlin.

In the autumn of 1828 he went to Breslau , where his father had been transferred, and supervised several construction projects there. In the autumn of 1831 he went back to Berlin to take his master builder exam. Until the autumn of 1838 he was responsible for the construction management for the upper post office building in Breslau as well as for road and road construction. He also built several palaces and other private buildings and worked for a long time as an assistant to the government building councils in Wroclaw. From September 1838 he taught interim at the royal art, building and craft school in Breslau, for which he was granted the title of building inspector as an exception. From 1838 until 1846 he worked for the Upper Silesian Railway .

In 1846 he became a provisional and later permanently employed building inspector in Potsdam for the Spandau district until he joined the ministerial building commission in 1849. In 1845/46 he completed the new construction of the tower of the Marienkirche in Bernau , in 1847 he built the Marienkapelle in Spandau and from 1848 to 1850 he was the construction manager of the new church in Charlottenburg designed by August Stüler .

From 1850 to 1853 he taught as a lecturer and from 1853 to 1874 as a professor for building construction theory at the trade institute (from 1866 trade academy) in Berlin. From 1855 to 1859 he also taught building design at the Bauakademie. He was a member of the architects' association since 1827.

publication

• Help book for the preparation of construction notices and determination of construction invoices. Ernst & Korn, Berlin, 1853 Google book
• Portland cements, some experience with their processing and application. Ernst & Korn, Berlin, 1859 Google book

literature

• Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1986, p. 62, 63 .
• Karl Gabriel Nowack: Silesian writer lexicon or bio-bibliographical directory of the Silesian writers living in the second quarter of the 19th century . Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, Breslau 1841, p. 107 ff . Google book

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 151, No. 9815
2. ↑ GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 93 D, No. 40
3. ↑ Julius Manger. In: Catalogus Professorum. TU Berlin, accessed on June 12, 2020 .