Karl Biecker

Karl Biecker (born August 26, 1859 in Cologne ; † 1927 there ; full name: Karl Wilhelm Biecker ; the spelling of the nickname varies between Karl and Carl ) was a German architect and railway construction officer .

origin

Karl Biecker was a son of the lawyer Carl August Biecker (1828–1910). Coming from Hückeswagen , his father resigned from the civil service as an assessor and notary candidate after his first legal career at the regional courts of Cologne and Elberfeld and joined the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in Cologne as an assistant . With their nationalization in 1880, he was appointed to the board of the state successor to this private company, the Royal Railway Directorate in Cologne on the left bank of the Rhine . Biecker resigned from service as a Privy Councilor.

Professional background

Karl Biecker attended the Apostle High School in Cologne , which he left in 1879 after passing the school leaving examination. Including the relevant internships at established architecture studios, Biecker first passed the first state examination as a candidate for architecture in June 1884 with subsequent appointment as government building supervisor ( trainee lawyer ) and in October 1889 also the second state examination, as a result of which he became a government master builder ( assessor ) for structural engineering was appointed.

As a government master builder, ie still a probationary civil servant , Biecker was entrusted in 1899 by the Royal Railway Directorate in Cologne with the preparation of drafts for the new Koblenz main train station. In view of the lack of vacancies within the service area of ​​the Cologne Railway Directorate, Biecker was hired pro forma as a district building inspector for the Wollstein building district near Posen in October 1900 . This post had been vacant for half a year. In practice, however, he was represented there by the government master builder Hans Lottermoser. Biecker himself was working on the high-rise train station buildings in Koblenz at the same time . Appointed royal agricultural inspector in spring 1901 , after completing the work in Koblenz, he was entrusted with four further station buildings in the same year 1902: design and management of the construction of the main stations in Krefeld , Mönchengladbach and Rheydt as well as the renovation and expansion of the main station in Neuss . For this purpose, Biecker was transferred to Krefeld in October 1902 as director of the building department for railway buildings. Before all work there was completed, he was officially transferred to the Royal Railway Directorate in Cologne in April 1906.

From 1904, the plans for the construction of a new central railway management building were in progress, because until now the railway officials were housed in various buildings belonging to the private predecessor companies. With the start of construction for its design, which were conducted by him, received Biecker the end of 1906, the characterization as the Royal Prussian Baurat IV. Class . On the occasion of the completion of the new building of the Cologne Railway Directorate, he was awarded the Red Eagle Order of the IV class at other awards . The management building including the presidential villa was Biecker's most important building project. The building, completed in 1913 and largely preserved despite war damage, still characterizes the Rhine promenade in Cologne's northern old town.

With Biecker's appointment as government and building councilor in the spring of 1911, he was promoted to director; subsequently he was responsible for numerous buildings in their service area. In 1927 he died as a senior government building officer in retirement .

Work (selection)

• 1898–1899: Synagogue in Oberhausen, Friedensstrasse 24 (destroyed in 1938)
• 1899–1902: Koblenz main station (first draft sketches, and after reworking by the agricultural inspector Fritz Klingholz , who was led by the secret building councilor Paul Thoemer and later by the secret building councilor Alexander Rüdell , further drafting and finally construction by Biecker)
• 1902–1907: Krefeld main station (construction management until 1906)
• 1905–1908: Mönchengladbach Central Station (construction management until 1906)
• 1906–1907: Rheydt main station (construction management until 1906)
• until 1906: Neuss main station
• 1906–1913: Administration and service building of the Royal Railway Directorate Cologne, Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 3 (design and execution with the help of the government architects Adolph Kayser and Martin Kießling ; the overhead line was in the hands of Rüdell)
• 1911–1914: Köln-Deutz train station (today Köln Messe / Deutz train station ; with the support of the government architect Hugo Röttcher )
• 1914: Design for the entrance building group and water tower of the Jülich railway repair shop

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  Koblenz Central Station, lithograph 1903

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  Krefeld main station

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  Cologne Railway Directorate, outbuilding

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  Cologne: meeting room for the District Railway Council

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  The train station in Cologne-Deutz

Literature and Sources

• Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , years 1884 to 1927
• Construction journal , years 1901 to 1903 and 1906f.
• Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , supplement statistical evidence, years 1910, 1911 and 1915
• The apostle high school in Cologne. 75 years in the service of German youth education 1860-1935. Cologne 1935.
• Cologne. Structural development 1888-1927. Berlin 1927. (Reprint: Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-88375-965-4 )
• Elfi Pracht-Jörns : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part 2, Düsseldorf district. (= Contributions to the architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland , Volume 34.2.) Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7616-1444-6 .
• Hans Peter Schwanke: Architectural Guide Krefeld. Krefeld 1996, ISBN 3-9804181-4-6 .

References and comments

1. ^ Landesarchiv NRW, Rhineland, civil status archive, civil status register, LG Cologne, StA Cologne, G 2654/1859
2. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 47, 1927, No. 15 (from April 13, 1927), p. 180.
3. ↑ Festschrift 1935 . P. 186, No. 249.
4. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 4, 1884, No. 24 (from June 14, 1884), p. 241.
5. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 9, 1889, No. 44 (from November 2, 1889), p. 411.
6. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 23, 1903, No. 47 (from June 13, 1903), pp. 289–293.
7. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 20, 1900, No. 81 (from October 13, 1900), p. 490.
8. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 21, 1901, No. 27 (April 6, 1901), p. 165.
9. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 22nd year 1902, No. 79 (from October 4, 1902), p. 481.
10. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 26, 1906, No. 29 (April 7, 1906), p. 181.
11. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 26, 1906, No. 103 (from December 22, 1906), p. 103.
12. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 33rd year 1913, No. 31 (from April 19, 1913), p. 205.
13. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 31, 1911, No. 37 (from May 6, 1911), p. 225.
14. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 47, 1927, No. 15 (from April 13, 1927), p. 180.
15. ^ Source: Stadtarchiv Oberhausen, 22/86
16. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 33rd year 1913, No. 95 (from November 29, 1913), pp. 645–649, and No. 99 (from December 13, 1913), pp. 685–689.
17. ^ Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , 65th year 1915, statistical evidence , V. Administration building, p. 8.
18. ↑ Cologne 1927, pp. 27 and 31f.
19. ↑ u. a. Kölner Stadtanzeiger , No. 520 IV. Of November 10, 1913.

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