Ludwig Debo

Heinrich Ludwig Debo (born December 16, 1818 in Hildesheim , † January 7, 1905 in Hanover ) was a German architect and university professor in Hanover.

Life

Ludwig Debo, son of a master mason, studied from 1838 to 1840 with Ernst Ebeling at the Polytechnic School in Hanover . On May 1, 1843, he was construction manager (site manager) at the Hanoverian railway administration and from 1851 to 1866 head of the technical office of the General Directorate of Railways and Telegraphs in Hanover. As the successor to his teacher Ebeling, he also became a teacher of architecture in 1851, of building construction and building materials and designing buildings from 1863, and of building furnishings, agricultural architecture and construction plans and construction management at the Polytechnic School in Hanover since 1876. In 1878 he was given the title of professor. On October 1, 1892, he retired with the rank of secret councilor .

His assistant, Wilhelm Lüer , succeeded him in October 1869 as a lecturer in architecture and ornamentation.

Debo was a friend and colleague of Conrad Wilhelm Hase and promoted the brick industrial building in Hanover. He was a co-founder of the Hanover Architects and Engineers Association and an honorary member of the Bauhütte zum white sheet .

family

Resting place of Heinrich Ludwig Debo - historical neo-Gothic family grave from 1894 - Debo / Stolze / Gomes de Sousa, Hanover Stöcken in 2003

Ludwig Debo was married to Lina geb. Schütz, their son Richard (1859–1915) was the godchild of Conrad Wilhelm Hase and later also became an architect. The daughter Marie Louise Elisabeth Debo married the lawyer Christian Oppermann .

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Architectural works

• 1844–1845: workshop building with Adolf Funk at Hanover Central Station
• 1852: Gas works in Hanover
• 1854: Fannystraße workers' colony in Linden (Hanover)
• around 1855: Hemmerde brothers' office building in Hanover, Reitwallstraße
• 1856–1859: various industrial buildings and a workers' settlement based on the principle of " solar building theory " in Georgsmarienhütte near Osnabrück
• 1857–1858: Mechanical weaving mill in Linden (Hanover)
• 1861–1862: Church of St. Felicianus in Kirchweyhe
• 1885: Capital insurance company building in Hanover, Landschaftsstrasse

Fonts

• Discussions on modern architecture . Helwingsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1862 ( digitized version ).
• with Carl Grote : non-profit building associations. Report to the Royal Hanoverian Ministry of the Interior, submitted in March 1861, with special consideration of the conditions in the royal seat of Hanover . Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1861.
• with Carl Grote: Charitable laundries and bathing establishments. Report to the Royal Ministry of the Interior in Hanover, with special consideration of the conditions in the royal city of Hanover . Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1862 ( digitized version ).
• The strength of the building materials, the load-bearing capacity of the subsoil and the loads to be considered for structures . Schmorl & von Seefeld, Hanover 1891.
• The position of the neutral layer in curved bodies and the pressure distribution in the masonry with eccentric loading . Schmorl & von Seefeld, Hanover 1897.
• Contributions to the vault structures . Schmorl & von Seefeld Nachf., Hanover 1899 ( digitized ).
• Textbook of masonry constructions . Gebr. Jänecke, Hanover 1901.

literature

• The teaching staff at the Technical University of Hanover 1831–1956. Hanover 1956, p. 91.
• German Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 2, p. 455.
• Wilhelm Rothert: Hanoverian biography . Volume 2: In the old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866. Hanover 1914, p. 526.
• Catalogus professorum 1831–1981 (= Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hanover, Vol. 2). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1981, ISBN 3-17-007321-4 , p. 43 (with picture).
• Walter Buschmann: Linden trees. History of an industrial city. August Lax, Hildesheim 1981, pp. 142f. u. ö.
• Günther Kokkelink , Monika Lemke-Kokkelink : Architecture in Northern Germany. Hanover 1998, p. 567.
• Jörg Schneider: The Jewish community in Hildesheim from 1871–1942. Dissertation, University of Göttingen, Philosophical Faculty 1999, Chapter 10 The design of the Hildesheim synagogue p. 6 with footnote 31 ( digitized version ).
• Helmut Knocke : Debo, Ludwig . In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 91 and others.
• Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen : Debo, Ludwig. In: Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek (eds.): Hannover. Art and culture lexicon. Handbook and city guide . 4th, updated and expanded edition. New edition. zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 29, 165, 210
• Helmut Knocke: Debo, Ludwig. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 123.

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Debo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dataset on Ludwig Debo in the database of architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) , last accessed on March 8, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Knocke: Debo, Ludwig. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 123.
2. ↑ Sabine Behrens: North German Church Buildings of Historicism. The sacred architecture of Hugo Groothoff (1851–1918) (= Kiel Art History Studies , New Series, Volume 8). Ludwig, Kiel 2006, ISBN 3-933598-97-4 , p. 45.