Max Küster

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Max Küster (born September 6, 1862 in Hanover ; † September 14, 1941 ibid) was a German bricklayer , carpenter , architect and building contractor .

biography

youth

Küster attended the building trade school in Holzminden and studied from 1880 at the Technical University of Hanover with Conrad Wilhelm Hase . In the same year he became a founding member of the Bauhütte zum white paper .

Only one year later he was in 1881 Hamburg architectural office Hallier & Fitschen active (Eduard Hallier and Hinrich Fittschen).

From 1883 to 1885 Küster taught as a teacher at the Buxtehude building trade school , then from 1885 he worked as an architect at Magdeburg's Bau- und Creditbank in Magdeburg . In 1887 Küster went back to his hometown and worked there in the construction business of Hermann Kaiser .

Max Küster construction company

1888 founded sexton his construction business for construction , civil engineering and hydraulic engineering , and then spent several years working for his own company continued as an architect. Ten years after founding the company also came in 1898 divisions railway construction and carpentry added.

In the meantime Küster had become one of the founders of the Hanover House and Landowners Association in 1893 , which he chaired from 1900 to 1919, after which he was elected an honorary member. In 1894 he became co-founder and also until 1919 chairman of the liability association for homeowners .

Was initially determined less by construction interests Max sexton Co-founder of civil society protecting the Celler-road district and the Archers in 1897. That same year, sexton, however, was in the civil chief elected -Kollegium, remaining a member until the 1924th

Küster was also a co-founder of the German Employers' Association for the construction industry in 1899, co- founder of the SME Association in Hanover in 1903 and co-founder of the SME Association for the German Empire in Berlin in 1904 , which he chaired until 1914.

Until around 1900 Küster designed especially residential houses and apartment buildings in the neo-Gothic style , which he then carried out himself with his construction company. After 1900 he also designed and built in other architectural styles.

New Town Hall in Hanover; Design: Hermann Eggert , construction (~ 1901–1913): Max Küster with Heinrich Heeren (without architectural sculpture )

When the construction of the New Town Hall in Hanover began in 1901 based on plans by Hermann Eggert , the Max Küster Baugesellschaft and the building contractor Heinrich Heeren were awarded the contract. But "it should be [...] been irregularities" in awarding contracts: Max Sexton was elected to the Civil Principal College in 1897 and had this committee also heard when it had to decide on the award of contracts - some information - benefits obviously had paid off against other competitors .

In 1910, Max Küster Baugesellschaft operated branches in Essen , Bochum and Duisburg and employed around 3,100 people.

In 1927 the company advertised as "Max Küster, construction business, Hanover - structural engineering, civil engineering, reinforced concrete , hydraulic engineering , railway construction, carpentry". In the first fifty years of its existence, the company carried out around 2,500 public and private construction contracts in and around Hanover, including some representative buildings in Hanover such as the Ratsapotheke , the Nordstadtkrankenhaus , the Ulanenkaserne in Schackstraße and numerous hotels , schools , industrial buildings such as for the apparatus manufacturer Gebr. Körting , as well as railway , military and hydraulic structures, including two dams in Westphalia . A large part of the buildings did not survive the air raids on Hanover and other cities during World War II .

One saying said: "Max Küster builds for the whole world, Alfred Sasse for half."

After his death in 1941, Max Küster was buried in the Engesohde city cemetery in a mausoleum designed by the architect Wilhelm Mackensen .

reconstruction

In the years of reconstruction , "Max Küster & Co. - Bauunternehmung" began in Meterstrasse in the southern part of Hanover, but then changed location several times. In the address book of the city of Hanover has been firm for the last time in 1975 and then called from the commercial register deleted.

plant

Architecture (incomplete)

Unless otherwise mentioned, the following selection mainly lists the buildings that have been preserved with their current addresses in Hanover, which, however, were assigned under different house or even street names during and after construction.

  • Ulanen barracks, Schackstrasse (destroyed in World War II)
  • 1888: Apartment building at Heinrichstrasse 30
  • 1890: Houses at Lister, miles 64 and 66
  • 1891: Group of two tenement houses on today's properties at Rumannstrasse 4 and 6 ; not received.
  • 1891: New building of the Ratsapotheke in Hanover opposite the market hall according to a plan by city building inspector Paul Rowald and rich architectural decorations by the painter Hermann Schaper ; The sculptures Hygieia and Hippocrates were created in 1830 by the sculptor Bernhard Wessel and originally adorned the classicist predecessor building by August Heinrich Andreae .
  • 1891–1892: Apartment building at Flüggestraße 8
  • from 1892: North City Hospital ; Paul Rowald in particular provided the plans for the former municipal central hospital .
  • 1893: Villa for Kollenrodt , Lister Kirchweg 51
  • 1893–1894: Apartment buildings at Körtingstrasse 1, 2, 3, 7, 8 and 9; There
    • house number 3 was the commercial building of the Küster company in the 1920s,
    • house number 4 bears the inscribed date "1893"
    • and house number 9 was demolished in favor of the construction of the playground in the street.
  • , Planning the Oskar-Winter road to 1895 by 1893, Stadtbauamt Hannover executed
  • 1894: Commercial building of the Hanover Chamber of Crafts , Kurz Strasse 4 (not preserved; location on today's lane of the widened Brühlstrasse)
Parking garage , 1894/1895
Hildesheimer Strasse 233 / Höltystrasse
  • 1900: Residential and commercial building Hildesheimer Straße 233 / Höltystraße (not preserved, location in today's lane of the widened Hildesheimer Straße)
  • 1900: Buildings at Bödekerstraße 94 and 96
  • 1900: Hohenzollernstrasse 28 building
  • 1901: Hohenzollernstrasse 29 building
  • 1901: Competition design for a rest home for German locomotive drivers in Hannoversch-Münden (awarded with 1st prize, not executed)
  • 1901–1902: Apartment building at Flüggestraße 13
  • 1901–1902: Apartment building for L. Beins, Ulanenstraße 5 / Am Taubenfelde ( demolished in favor of the widening of Schlosswender Straße as part of the car-friendly city , 2012 green area)
  • 1901–1902: Building at Körnerstrasse 15a / Ulanenstrasse (demolished in favor of widening Schlosswender Strasse as part of the car-friendly city, 2012 green space)
  • around 1901 to 1913: Construction of the New Town Hall in Hanover (based on plans by Hermann Eggert and Gustav Halmhuber )
  • 1902: two drafts for the extension of a "town hall" (concert hall) to the new house (not executed)
  • 1902: Residential and commercial building for Count von Kielmannsegg , Calenberger Straße 24 (ground floor partially preserved)
  • 1902: Apartment building at Bödekerstraße 74 (roof zine simplified)
  • 1902–1903: Recreation home for German locomotive drivers in Hannoversch-Münden, Kattenbühl 35 (based on a winning competition design in a second competition)
  • 1902–1903: Women's boarding school Koch and Arlt in Hannoversch-Münden, Friedrichstrasse 12 (villa-like dormitory)
  • 1902–1903: Apartment buildings for JR von der Linde in Hanover, An der Markuskirche 2 and 4
  • 1902–1903: "Hotel Bristol" in Bad Wildungen , Hufelandstrasse
  • 1902/1903: Competition design for a district building in Recklinghausen (not executed)
  • 1903: Residential and commercial buildings for Graf von Kielmannsegg in Hanover, Calenberger Strasse 26 and 28 (today largely rebuilt)
  • 1903–1904: Glörtalsperre near Dahlerbrück in Westphalia
  • 1904: Villa Kantstrasse 4 in Hanover
  • 1903–1904 (inscription, however, "1902"): Kaiserhaus in Hanover, Thielenplatz (built by the building contractor Küster on his own account based on a design by Alfred Sasse )
  • from 1904: breakthrough in Steintorfeldstrasse in Hanover ("in cooperation with other building contractors and the Hanover City Building Office"; partially preserved)
  • 1904–1905: "Rothersche Realschule" with alumni in Blankenburg (Harz) , Helsunger Straße 34
  • 1904–1905: Railway bridge and track construction near Vacha-Hünfeld
  • 1905: Apartment building for master bricklayer Diedrich in Hanover, Am Schatzkampe 26 (today partially modernized in detail)
  • around 1905: Building Bödekerstraße 84 in Hanover (temporarily with Max Küster's office)
  • 1904-1910: lignite - abraum operating in Lauchhammer ( Oberlausitz )
  • 1905–1906: Jubach dam near Kierspe (technical design by civil engineer Otto Intze , Aachen)
  • 1906: Villa Kantplatz 1 in Hanover
  • around 1906: Villa for G. Rasch in Hanover, Hegelstrasse 4 / Fichtestrasse
  • 1906–1910: Lignite mining operation in Lobstädt
  • 1907: Railway bridge in Ricklingen
  • 1907: Residential and commercial building in Hanover, Bödekerstraße 25 (facade modernized)
  • 1907: Conversion of the "Wiener Café" to the restaurant "Brauergildehaus" (installation and interior fittings) in the residential and commercial building Georgsplatz 8 (formerly: Große Aegidienstraße 34 / Georgsplatz) in Hanover (not preserved)
  • 1907: Row house in Hanover, Fichtestrasse 11 and 13
  • 1908: House (corner house) in Hanover, Fichtestrasse 21
  • 1908: House for master bricklayer Franz Schönekess in Hanover, Göbelstraße 6
  • 1908: Competition design for a savings bank building in Bremerhaven , Bürgermeister-Smidt-Straße (execution uncertain)
  • 1908: Buildings at Baumbachstrasse 4 and Lister Strasse 38 in Hanover
  • 1908: Reinforced concrete coking coal tower on mine IV of the Lorraine colliery in Gerthe
  • 1909: Buildings at Edenstrasse 18 and 20 for master bricklayer Franz Schönekess in Hanover
  • around 1910: Building Fichtestrasse 39
  • 1911: Development of multi-family houses on Badenstedter Strasse 62–80 (the office of Gebr. Körting AG was in house number 80 ; the details of the building were simplified, changed and plastered over)
  • 1907–1912: Lignite mining operations on pits I and II in Theissen
  • 1910–1913: Earthworks for the extension of the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal near Rendsburg
  • 1907–1914: Barracks and barracks on the Munster military training area
  • 1910–1914: Military training area with barracks in Ohrdruf ( Thuringia )
  • 1903–1916: Construction work for a quarry in Solnhofen ( Bavaria )
  • 1917–1918: "Breloh prison camp" in Munster camp (in collaboration with architect Fritz Munke , Hanover-Wülfel )
  • 1917–1918: Settlement of the railway construction and savings association in Recklinghausen
  • 1919: Makeshift buildings (living barracks ) in Hanover
  • 1925–1926: Car hall and superstructure workshop of the Überlandwerke und Straßenbahn AG (Üstra) in Hanover, Friedrich-Lehner-Weg (formerly: Ihmestraße) (in cooperation with the mechanical engineer Eduard Holstein , director of Üstra; not preserved)
  • 1927: Reinforced concrete bridge in the rear area of ​​the Stöcken cemetery
  • 1926–1927: Extension of the Johanniter sanctuary in Sorge (Harz)
  • 1930: “Grenzburg” multi-family dwelling development with restaurant and hall in Hanover, Podbielskistraße

Fonts

  • Creating and working in 40 years. Forty years of Max Küster, Hanover (1888–1928). Construction business for buildings of all kinds ... Hanover around 1928.

literature

Other sources

  • Archive of the Bauhütte zum Weißen Blatt , partly in the Hanover city archive , partly in the club house, Hanover, Braunstraße 28
  • City archive Hanover: Collection of personal history
  • Sabine Rüst: Max Küster - Life and Work ... , Mainz 1990 (specialist work at the grammar school )

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Küster, Max. And Küster, Max K. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 375f.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx Reinhard Glaß: Architects and artists with ... (see web links)
  3. ↑ According to the Glass portal found in: Herbert Mundhenke : The matriculation of the Higher Trade School, the Polytechnic School and the Technical University of Hanover. Hildesheim 1988–1992 (3 volumes), registration number 7458
  4. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke: New Town Hall. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 466f.
  5. ^ Helmut Knocke: Sasse, Alfred. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 535
  6. ↑ Reinhard Glaß: Küster, Max in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) [undated], last accessed on October 20, 2018
  7. ↑ Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: The breakthrough of Karmarschstrasse. In: Monument topography ... , Vol. 10.1, p. 75.
  8. ↑ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Karmarschstrasse 44. In: Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon . P. 156.
  9. ^ Rainer Kasties: North City Hospital . In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 483.
  10. ↑ Gerd Weiß: Public Buildings. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany ... , Vol. 10.1, p. 113f.
  11. ^ NN : History of the parking garage. Institute for Measurement and Control Engineering, University of Hanover
  12. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Prinzenstrasse 1. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon. P. 183.
personal data
SURNAME Sexton, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and contractor
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1941
Place of death Hanover