Karl Bing

Karl Bing (born May 1, 1858 in Cologne ; † November 4, 1930 ibid) was a German architect .

Life

Karl Bing was a son of the businessman Adolf Bing and his wife Ida, geb. Aron. Adolf and Ida Bing were partners in the band company Gebr. Bing. Besides Karl Bing, they had five other children.

Karl Bing passed his Abitur at the Kreuzgasse grammar school in 1875 and then became Baueleve with the city master builder Julius Carl Raschdorff and the Cologne city building authority. He then studied architecture from 1876 to 1881 at the Bauakademie in Berlin , where Raschdorff also taught from 1878. Drawings from Bing's student days show a strong influence of Raschdorff. Among other things, a synagogue design from 1879 shows clear similarities with the Berlin Cathedral , which Raschdorff designed and which was inaugurated in 1905, and a design for a deer park shows parallels with Raschdorff's plans for the Reichsburg Cochem .

In March 1881, Bing passed the building foreman exam and then worked for the government builder Hubert Stier in Hanover , then under government builder Adalbert Natorp , before he passed the government builder exam in autumn 1883 and was accepted into the Berlin Architects and Engineers Association. In 1885 Bing was a government builder in Hanover. From 1886 to 1888 he was busy with the new post office in Sondershausen and from 1888 to 1891 with the new post office in Ratibor . In 1893 his daughter Margarete Ida was born.

In December 1892 he was appointed post construction inspector in Berlin. In this position he worked in Dortmund from 1895 to 1899 . He then became a consultant in the Oberpostdirektion in Cologne, where he was given the character of building officer in 1900 and was appointed post building officer in 1901. In 1914 he finally became a secret building officer. In the same year he was supposed to be transferred to Hamburg , but instead was retired and from then on worked as a freelance architect. In 1817/18 he designed the Jewish cemetery on Vogelsanger Strasse in Bocklemünd . From 1920 onwards he devoted himself primarily to building cooperative residential property. For this purpose he also founded the cooperative “Eigenheim-Siedlungen Kölner Vororte eGmbH”, partly in cooperation with the architectural office Herpers & Gassen, he built many private homes and apartment buildings on Brühler Platz, Markusplatz and Markusstraße in Raderthal and on Rösrather Straße in Ostheim .

Gravesite (October 2018)

Karl Bing was with Adele Bing, geb. Rausnitz (1865–1942) married. The marriage resulted in at least one daughter, Margarete Ida. The family lived at times at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 34 in Cologne and later at Göbenstrasse 3. Karl Bing died in 1930 at the age of 72. Two years later his widow moved to Berlin to live with her daughter's family. From there she was deported with her daughter and son-in-law. Adele Bing was killed in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Third Reich , her daughter in Riga . A granddaughter, Ruth Berendt, married. Taylor, survived the holocaust .

Karl Bing's grave is located in the Jewish cemetery that he designed in Cologne-Bocklemünd (hall 19 no. 48).

buildings

It is not exactly documented which buildings Bing built for the Reichspost in Cologne. It is certain that both the post office building at Carl-Schroeder-Strasse 11 in Sondershausen and the one in Ratibor go back to Bing's own plans; both are largely preserved. Bing was also involved in the extension of the district court and prison in Nassau in 1882 under the supervision of the Wolff building council . Bing advised the Cologne synagogue community on the architecture. In 1903 he was a member of the jury for the competition for the construction of the Israelite Asylum in Ottostraße in Neuehrenfeld , and from 1905 to 1908 he was a member of the relevant building commission. The assignment of the buildings from his time as a private architect is difficult.

Awards

Karl Bing was awarded the Red Eagle Order IV class; the award ceremony took place before 1908.

literature

• Wolfram Hagspiel, Cologne and his Jewish architects , Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7616-2294-0 , pp. 43–49.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Synagogue drawing from 1879 in the Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin , accessed on April 22, 2016.