Oskar Delius

Oskar Delius

Oskar Franz Theodor Delius (also: Oscar Delius ; * May 28, 1846 in Versmold ; † September 19, 1916 in Berlin ) was a royal Prussian master builder and secret senior building officer in Berlin.

Life

Oskar Delius was the son of a landowner. He attended secondary school in Dortmund, which he left in 1864 with the school leaving certificate. He then became a trainee at the district building inspector in Olpe and also took part in field survey work for three months. From 1865 he studied at the Berlin Building Academy, which he left in 1867 as a site manager. He was then involved in the preparatory work for the upper Ruhr Valley Railway and continued his studies in 1869, but had to go into the field in 1870. From the Franco-German Warhe returned as a first lieutenant. He then took the surveyor's examination and became a site manager in the Arnsberg district, where he was particularly involved in the construction of school buildings. His master builder exam was so good that he received a travel grant, which he used to travel to Dresden , Vienna and Rome . As a master builder in Arnsberg, he was initially involved in bridge construction and was mainly employed in structural engineering. During the founding period of the German Empire , the government builder Oscar Delius was promoted to Royal Prussian master builder based in Koblenz in 1879 in Koblenz .

In 1883 he became a building inspector in Eisleben . In 1891 he became a government and building officer, first in Lüneburg , then in Stettin . In 1900, Delius was appointed to the civil engineering department of the Ministry of Public Works. Until 1914 he looked after numerous new buildings for authorities.

In 1903 Oskar Delius, the Privy Councilor and Lecturing Council in the Ministry of Public Works, was awarded the Royal Crown Order III. Class awarded by the King of Prussia. In the same year he and his colleague Paul Kieschke were appointed a member of the Royal Technical Higher Examination Office.

In 1912 he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class.

Oskar Delius was most recently head of department for the buildings of the finance, trade, commercial, agricultural and educational administration in the Ministry of Public Works. Due to illness, he withdrew from service before reaching retirement age. Delius was married.

Works (selection)

buildings

1906–1908 established Oberzolldirektion (today: Oberfinanzdirektion Niedersachsen ) in Hanover ; listed

• Preliminary draft for the chief customs directorate built from 1906 to 1908 in today's Hardenbergstrasse 3–5 in Hanover by the architect Hermann Heise ; received today as regional finance directorate. The construction manager Franz Engelbrecht from Hanover was responsible for the development and construction management was carried out by Hermann Heise, additional site managers were the government master builder Emil Goehrez and the government master builder Otto Heusgen

Fonts

• Construction and establishment of the state higher education institutions in Prussia , 116 pages with 99 text images; contents
  • Berlin: Ernst, 1913.
  • 2nd edition, Berlin, 1927.

literature

• H .: Secret chief building officer Delius † , in: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , edition 36, 1916, no. 79, p. 521 f .; Digitized with a half-length portrait (portrait) of the Central and State Library Berlin

Web links

Commons : Oskar Delius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} o.V. : Personal-Nachrichten , in: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Edition 13, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1913, p. 276; Preview over google books
2. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} H .: Secret Senior Building Officer Delius † , in: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Edition 36, 1916, No. 79, p. 521f .; Digitized with a half-length portrait (portrait) of the Central and State Library Berlin
4. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 23, 1903, pp. 213, 253; Preview over google books.
5. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , E. Wasmuth, 1917, p. 173; Preview over google books
6. ↑ Reinhard Glaß: Heise, Hermann Ferdinand Karl in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) on the page glass-portal.privat.t-online.de , last accessed on April 10, 2017.