Karl Bernhard
Karl Bernhard (born November 4, 1859 in Goldberg (Mecklenburg) , † March 30, 1937 in Berlin-Wannsee ) was a German civil engineer .
Life
Karl Bernhard studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Hanover , his teachers included Georg Barkhausen and Heinrich Müller-Breslau . After the first state examination, Bernhard worked as a government construction manager ( trainee lawyer ) at the Royal Railway Directorate in Frankfurt until 1887 . Here he was involved in the construction of Frankfurt Central Station . In the years from 1888 to 1898, after passing the second state examination as a government builder ( Assessor ), which he passed with distinction and received a travel bonus from the Minister of Public Works, he was employed in the technical office of the municipal building administration of Berlin , which was headed by James Hobrecht .
On behalf of the magistrate , he constructed numerous bridges, including the Oberbaum Bridge , the Luther Bridge and the Moabiter Bridge . In 1898 he opened his own design office for statics and civil engineering in Charlottenburg near Berlin and worked as a freelance civil engineer. Well-known architects such as Peter Behrens or Hermann Muthesius gave him orders, which meant that Bernhard was involved as an engineer in some important modern buildings such as the AEG turbine hall on Huttenstrasse in Berlin-Moabit. From 1898 to 1930 he also taught as a private lecturer for iron, structural and bridge construction at the Technical University of Berlin .
Karl Bernhard died in Berlin-Wannsee in 1937 at the age of 77. His grave in the Wannsee II cemetery has been preserved. A broad sandstone stele serves as a grave marker.
plant
| 1891-1892 | Luther Bridge in Berlin-Moabit |
| 1893-1894 | Moabiter Bridge in Berlin-Moabit (Architect: Otto Stahn ) |
| 1897 | Kaisersteg in Berlin-Oberschöneweide (with Heinrich Müller-Breslau ; destroyed in World War II) |
| 1900-1903 | Municipal gas works in Rixdorf ( Berlin-Neukölln ) |
| 1903-1904 | Treskow Bridge in Berlin-Oberschöneweide (replaced by a new building in 1934) |
| 1906 | Extension for Allgemeine Versicherungs-AG Victoria in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Lindenstrasse (Architect: Wilhelm Walther ) |
| 1906 | Cyklon machine factory in Berlin-Friedrichshain, Boxhagener Strasse 80 (demolished 2006) |
| 1908-1909 | Stubenrauchbrücke in Berlin-Niederschöneweide |
| 1908-1909 | Stößenseebrücke in Berlin-Spandau |
| 1908-1909 | Frey Bridge in Berlin-Wilhelmstadt (replaced by a new building in 2015–17) |
| 1909 | AEG turbine hall in Berlin-Moabit, Huttenstrasse 12–16 (Architect: Peter Behrens ) |
| 1908-1910 | Residential and commercial complex Erdmannshof in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Paul-Lincke-Ufer 39/40 (Architects: Ernst Schneckenburg and Otto Erdmann ) |
| 1910 | AEG high-voltage factory in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen (Architect: Peter Behrens) |
| 1911 | Electricity works in Strasbourg (together with Alfred Löwe ) |
| 1912-1913 | Factory building for the mechanical silk weaving mill Michels & Cie. in Nowawes near Potsdam (architect: Hermann Muthesius ) |
| 1913 | Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge in Fürstenwalde / Spree |
| 1914 | Electricity works in Heinrichshof (Upper Silesia) (today: Sosnowiec ) |
| 1922-1923 | Trade union building of the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB) in Berlin (Architects: Max Taut and Franz Hoffmann ) |
| 1924 | Association house of the German book printers (later IG Druck und Papier ) in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Dudenstrasse 10–16 (architects: Max Taut and Franz Hoffmann) |
| 1929 | Warthebruch Bridge near Fichtwerder (today: Świerkocin ) |
| 1929-1930 | Office and commercial building of the Reichselektrowerke , since 1930 Lenz-Haus , in Berlin-Tiergarten, Kurfürstenstraße 87 (architect: Heinrich Straumer ) |
| 1930 (?) | Wuthenow Bridge over the nets between Driesen and Kreuz ( Neumark ) |
| 1930-1932 | Extension for the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB) in Berlin, Wallstrasse and Märkisches Ufer (architect: Walter Würzbach ) |
literature
- Miron Mislin : Peter Behrens between myth and reality. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , year 1989, issue 6.
- Miron Mislin: Industrial architecture in Berlin. Wasmuth, Tübingen 2002, p. 404 f., P. 418.
- Cengiz Dicleli: Karl Bernhard. “The artistic must completely permeate the technical.” In: Forum, research magazine of the Konstanz University of Applied Sciences ( ISSN 1619-9812 ), edition 2003/2004 ( online as PDF; 3.08 MB), pp. 21–24.
- Karl-Eugen Kurrer : History of Structural Analysis. In search of balance . Ernst & Sohn , Berlin 2016, p. 531f and p. 950f (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03134-6
Web links
- Holdings on Karl Bernhard at the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin
- Karl Bernhard. A forgotten master of engineering (Momentum Magazin)
- A bridge competition in Saarbrücken as a contribution to artistic questions of bridge building. Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, 1909 edition; Pages 485, 535, accessed September 6, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ GStA PK, I. HA Technisches Oberprüfungsamt No. 281
- ^ Portrait of an engineer by Karl Bernhard. The penetration of art and technology ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 167 kB) In: Deutsche Bauzeitung ; Retrieved September 2, 2011
- ↑ Bernhard, Carl . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1899, part 1, p. 97. “Reg.baumstr. and private lecturer, Kantstrasse 143 ”.
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 659.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bernhard, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goldberg (Mecklenburg) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1937 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Wannsee |