Moritz Hellwig

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Moritz Hellwig (born October 26, 1841 in Berlin ; † May 5, 1912 in Hildesheim ) was a German architect and Prussian construction clerk .

Life

Moritz Hellwig came from a family of civil servants and musicians, most of whose members were closely associated with the Berliner Singakademie , since the court and cathedral organist Ludwig Hellwig was vice director there. His father was the really secret Legation Councilor Friedrich Hellwig, a long-time member of the board of directors of the Singakademie. His older brother was the politician Otto Hellwig . Moritz Hellwig attended the Berlin Bauakademie after finishing school in Berlin . For his design of a parliament house for Prussia, he received the Schinkel Prize of the Architects' Association in Berlin in 1868 . In October 1869 he passed the master builder examinationand then toured Italy until 1870. During military service in the Franco-Prussian War , he lost a leg on August 16, 1870, was then discharged from the army and began teaching at the building academy. From April 1877 he was a master builder at the ministerial building commission, from 1878 as a building inspector . In addition to his professional activity, he was a member of the Liedertafel at the Singakademie from 1879 to 1885, where he became a board member in 1885. In February 1886 he was transferred to Königsberg and promoted to the government building council. In 1890 he moved to Hildesheim and went to the 1911 retirement .

The cooperative settlement in Adlershof planned by Hellwig around 1885 was realized by the Berlin building cooperative founded  on May 16, 1886 by Reichstag member Karl Schrader , which also built residential buildings in Köpenick , Baumschulenweg , Kaulsdorf , Mahlsdorf , Borsigwalde , Hermsdorf , Lichterfelde and Mariendorf .

buildings

  • 1873–1878: Construction management at the Physics Institute in Berlin, Reichstagufer 7/8 (together with Fritz Zastrau , based on a design by Paul Spieker )
  • 1878–1880: Botanical Museum in Berlin-Schöneberg, Grunewaldstraße 6/7 (together with Fritz Zastrau and Eduard Haeseke; today music school and art department)
  • 1879–1883: Office building for the direct tax administration in Berlin, Am Gießhaus / Am Kupfergraben (design jointly with Ludwig Giersberg and Weber, site management Georg Thür )

literature

Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1986, p. 41 f .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prussian Parliament, Schinkel Competition. In: Architekturmuseum TU Berlin. 1868, Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
  2. ^ Scientific and medical institutes of the Royal University of Berlin. In: Monument Database Berlin. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Former Botanical Museum. In: Monument Database Berlin. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hellwig, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and Prussian building officer
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1912
Place of death Hildesheim