Oskar Appelius

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Oskar Appelius (born November 11, 1837 in Berlin , † September 27, 1904 in Charlottenburg ) was a German architect and Prussian military construction officer .

Life

Oskar Appelius was the son of the pharmacist and city elder of Berlin Friedrich Adolph Heinrich Appelius . From 1848 he was a student at the Gray Monastery and graduated from high school there in 1857. After training in 1857/58 at the city building officer Gustav Holtzmann and from 1858 to 1861 at the building academy with a final construction manager examination, he worked for the architect Martin Gropius from 1861 to 1863 . In 1864 Appelius passed the state examination to become a government architect ( assessor ).

From 1871 Appelius worked in the design office of the Berlin-Anhalt Railway Company . In 1876 he went from there to the military building administration and in 1877 became garrison building inspector. In 1879 he was transferred to Stettin as director and building officer, and then to Strasbourg in 1883 . In 1888 he was appointed to the Prussian War Ministry in Berlin, where in 1890 he became a secret building officer and lecturer and in 1895 a senior building officer. In 1897 he was appointed head of the military building administration there. On February 9, 1898 he became a member of the Academy of Building . From 1891 to 1893 and from 1896 to 1898 he was a board member of the architects' association . At the end of 1903 Appelius retired as a real secret senior building officer .

His brother was the District Court Judge Hermann Appelius, his nephew the Prussian administrative lawyer Franz Appelius .

plant

  • 1876: Entrance building of the main train station in Dessau
  • 1878–1881: Barracks of the 1st Guard Field Artillery Regiment in Berlin-Moabit , Kruppstraße (construction management, together with Richard La Pierre, according to specifications by Gustav Voigtel and design by garrison construction inspector Otto Heimerdinger)
  • 1879–1880: Officer's mess in Berlin-Moabit, Perleberger Straße 62 (construction management, replaced by La Pierre in 1879, based on a design by Otto Heimerdinger. After the Second World War used as a ballroom in the Tiergarten , since 2001 the Uzbek embassy)
  • 1879–1881: Oberfeuerwerkerschule, Invalidenstrasse / corner of Lehrter Strasse (construction management, together with La Pierre, based on a design by Verworn. No longer available)
  • 1879–1888: Extension of the Ulanenkaserne Moabit (together with La Pierre)
  • 1892: Villa Apellius, Knesebeckstraße 63

literature

  • Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century . Society for Local History and for Monument Preservation in the Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1986, p. 8
  • Uwe Kieling: Berlin. Buildings and master builders from the Gothic to 1945. Berlin Edition, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8148-0095-8 , p. 313.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Petri-Kirchengemeinde Berlin: Baptism book . Berlin January 17th 1838.
  2. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , 7th year 1904/1905, issue 8, November 1904, p. 311 ( urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-4883 ).
  3. ↑ St. Petri-Kirchengemeinde: Baptism book . Berlin July 20, 1836.
  4. ↑ Barracks of the 1st Guard Field Artillery Regiment Kruppstrasse 3/4 and 13-18
    Barracks of the 1st Guard Field Artillery Regiment Kruppstrasse 3/4
  5. ↑ Ballhaus Tiergarten Perleberger Strasse 62 / 62A, Berlin-Moabit.
personal data
SURNAME Appelius, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and Prussian building officer
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1904
Place of death Charlottenburg