Max Jacob (architect)

Maximilian Jacob , mostly called Max Jacob , (born August 15, 1849 in Dahme / Mark ; † April 25, 1921 in Berlin ) was a German architect and building contractor who planned and planned residential, administrative and production buildings in Berlin and in the Mark Brandenburg region carried out. Some of his buildings are listed .

Life

Max Jacob was the son of the master mason Theodor Jacob. Around 1875 Jacob moved to Berlin at Frobenstraße 29. There he ran the architecture office "Rosemann & Jacob" together with the architect Carl Rosemann. They acquired the properties at Alvenslebenstrasse 1 (Potsdamer Strasse 87) and 2 and built tenement houses. Together they maintained their "construction business and studio for architecture" at Potsdamer Strasse 87 until 1896. After that Jacob had his office there until his death.

It is very likely that Jacob was looking for a new partner, whom he found in Georg Roensch's “Atelier for Architecture” (also spelled “Rönsch”) in Charlottenburg near Berlin (Kantstrasse 149; from 1900 Fasanenstrasse 22).

Jacob died in Berlin and was buried by his siblings in Dahme. Apparently he wasn't married. The grave plaque there has been preserved (as of 2013). After his death, the house at Potsdamer Strasse 87 was sold to the cigar manufacturer H. Eltze.

Buildings and designs (selection)

- chronological -

Town hall in Dahme

View of the commercial building Gertraudenstraße 10 in 1954 from the Gertraud bridge from

First Müggelturm around 1900

Factory building "Bärensiegel" on the corner of Glienicker Weg and Adlergestell

• 1874–1876 tenement houses in Berlin-Schöneberg, Alvenslebenstrasse 1 and 2 (Rosemann & Jacob)
• 1876 ​​design for the Hamburg town hall (Rosemann & Jacob, not executed)
• 1878–1880 New building for the von Rohdich'schen Legatenfonds , former Palais Wrangel , in Berlin-Mitte, Pariser Platz 3 (Rosemann & Jacob together with von Strahlendorff )
• 1883–1887 in Berlin: residential and commercial building at Leipziger Strasse 115 with courtyard buildings for Reinhold Kühn's bookstore (Rosemann & Jacob, not preserved)
• 1889/1890 in Köpenick near Berlin : Jacob developed the first observation tower at this point in the style of a Chinese pagoda from the small Spindler Tower on Müggelsee .
• Around 1890 in Berlin-Grunewald , Koenigsallee 1: Kegelklubhaus as the first development after the areas had been drained and the approval for the establishment of the villa colony, the client was the local bowling club (Rosemann & Jacob, retained).
• 1892–1894 in Dahme / Mark : The city council decided in 1892 to build a new town hall on the property of the burned down Nikolaikirche. A permanent representative building was to replace the temporary structure that had been in use since the city fire and also to house a post office . Based on the design by Max Jacob and under his direction, the building was built in the neo-renaissance style with a characteristic 46 meter high round tower and decorative gables, turrets and pilaster strips . The brick building is a landmark of the small town to this day. Inside, the wedding room with wall paneling in neo -baroque style and the council chamber with the coat of arms frieze of the Dahmer crafts have been preserved into the 21st century . The counter room of the former post office shows its almost original furnishings. A plaque on the town hall refers to the architect. Since 2010, the municipal library and tourist information have been located in the building, which continues to be used as the town hall.
• 1893 residential and commercial buildings in Berlin, Friedrichstrasse 240 and 241 for Georg W. Büxenstein , the so-called " Druckpalast " (Rosemann & Jacob) (not preserved).
• 1897/1898 in Old Berlin , Gertraudenstraße 10/12: residential and commercial building for the gold dealer Wilhelm Müller, later as Jewel Palace made famous
  The five-storey building, designed by Georg Roensch and Max Jacob is a pillar working with sandstone - facade in Gothicising To shape. Historians attribute the choice of Gothic style elements to the visual relationship to the neighboring Petrikirche . The house received an elaborately designed entrance area: three-quarter pillars frame the door and tracery emphasizes this part of the building. Between the three-part windows on the upper floors, pillars structure the facade strongly vertically. The wall pillars end in playful attachments in the roof zone. The corner of the building sloping towards the Gertraudenbrücke is decorated with gabled risalits . On the slope there is a copper coat of arms with Masonic symbols. The stairwell inside has wrought iron railings, and the wall surfaces are clad with white ceramic in relief . Two years after completion, the Berlin address book lists the owner W. Müller as a user of an umbrella factory , the Union Club , a glove factory , an instrument store and other sales facilities. The house was damaged in World War II and repaired in the early 1950s. However, no consideration was given to the original parts: Simple windows were used and the ground floor area was largely freed from its ornaments (see view 1954). In the GDR era, the house served as an office building, with a bookstore on the ground floor. After it had been vacant for a long time at the beginning of the 1990s, a private investor acquired the striking building, had it extensively renovated and restored in accordance with a listed building. A wedding outfitter was located on several floors.
• 1899 in Dahme / Mark, Hauptstraße 20: stately villa, in the 21st century with "Café Rose"
• (no year) in Dahme / Mark: House Jüterboger Straße 16, the first floor used by a hairdressing salon in the 21st century
• 1900 in Storkow (Mark) , Beeskow-Storkow district: Landhaus Hubertushöhe (better known as Schloss Hubertushöhe ; together with Georg Roensch)
  residential building for the printer's owner Georg Büxenstein ; The house was sold in 1996 to an entrepreneur who had it converted into a hotel.
• 1904–1906 in Berlin-Adlershof , Adlergestell / Glienicker Weg: chemical-pharmaceutical factory of the entrepreneur Johannes Kahlbaum ; later VEB Bärensiegel and VEB Berlin-Chemie . The property was divided into the two factories; the production buildings and warehouses of VEB Bärensiegel have been empty since 1994. Larger parts of the eagle frame have been torn down since 2014.
• 1905 in Berlin-Tempelhof , Ringbahnstrasse 10–14: warehouse and bottling plant of the Berliner Brennspiritus-GmbH; 1927/28 rebuilt and expanded by Paul Renner to form the Reich monopoly administration for spirits . The brick building was renovated in 2011/2012 and is partially rented to service providers as the "Tempelhof industrial estate".
• (no year) in Berlin-Grünau : Landhaus Geist

Web links

Commons : Max Jacob  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography and naming of some works on dahme.de

Individual references and comments

1. ↑ StA Berlin III, death certificate no. 399/1921
2. ↑ Frobenstr. 29: Jacob, architect and Rosemann, architect . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1875, 2, p. 107.
3. ^ Rönsch, G., architect . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1900, 1, p. 1285.
4. ^ Potsdamer Strasse 87 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1922, part 4, p. 712 ( E = owner).
5. ↑ Entry in the Berlin state monument list tenant house Alvenslebenstrasse 2, accessed on August 26, 2020
6. ↑ From the specialist literature . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung . tape 11 , no. 58 , July 4, 1877, p. 260 . Digitized
7. ↑ Leipzigerstrasse 115, renovation. E. Kühn, Buchhdl. In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1883, part 2, p. 221.
8. ↑ Leipzigerstrasse 116, renovation. E. Kühn, Buchhdl. In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1887, 2, p. 245.
9. ↑ Brief history of the Müggelturm ( Memento from August 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ); Retrieved February 8, 2014
10. ↑ Koenigsallee 1 . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1899, part 5, Grunewald, p. 91.
11. ^ Bowling club house, Berlin-Grunewald. In: Architekturmuseum TU Berlin. Retrieved August 27, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Heinz Schmidt-Bachem: From paper: a cultural and economic history of the paper processing industry in Germany . de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023607-1 , p. 511 . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
13. ↑ Gertraudtenstrasse 10–12 . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1902, part 3, p. 211.
14. ↑ Details monument database of the Berlin Senate
15. ↑ Architectural monument Gertraudenstrasse 10–12, commercial building
16. ↑ Wedding House Berlin | The professionals for your wedding in Berlin. Retrieved April 25, 2021 (German). 
17. ↑ Information about various buildings (PDF) Dahme administration portal, accessed March 26, 2009
18. ↑ Lexicon "Märkische country seats of the middle class"
19. ↑ Hotel and Restaurant Hubertushöhe
20. ↑ Architectural monument eagle frame 327, 331, bear seal, production building
21. ^ History of the VEB Berlin-Chemie arche-foto.com.de; Retrieved February 8, 2014
22. ↑ Monument Ringbahnstraße 10/14, Reich monopoly administration for spirits, 1905 by Max Jacob, 1927/1928 by Paul Renner
23. ↑ Homepage of the business park at Ringbahnstrasse 10-14
24. ^ A careful review of the Berlin address books between 1899 and 1922 and the review of the online address book for Grünau from 1922 did not provide any reliable evidence for this statement. Only one Johannes (Hans) Geist from Charlottenburg is named in the 1910s who worked as an architect. So it is conceivable that Jacob designed and / or built a country house for this professional colleague.