Paul Egeling

Paul Egeling (born September 3, 1856 in Ottersleben ; † August 8, 1937 in Berlin ) was a German architect who worked between 1895 and 1915 as a construction clerk in the then independent city of Schöneberg .

Life

Egeling was the son of a master mason and studied at the Technical University in Charlottenburg . One of his first buildings around 1890 was the chapel of the New Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Schöneberg, where he was later buried. In 1892 he received the Schinkel Prize . As a result, he worked in Schöneberg, a wealthy and fast growing city until it was incorporated into Greater Berlin in 1920, where there was a high demand for new public buildings.

Paul Egeling's chapel in the cemetery on Eythstrasse

On May 16, 1895, Egeling was elected city building inspector of Schöneberg and in March 1900 a member of the magistrate , so that the construction of new buildings in Schöneberg was his responsibility. The total of 26 large buildings from this period include the Auguste Viktoria Hospital , which opened in 1906 between Rubensstrasse and Grazer Damm , the chapel on the II. Municipal Cemetery Eythstrasse from 1910–1912, and the commercial premises of the optical institute CP , which is now a listed building Goerz (later Zeiss-Ikon ) in the Friedenauer Rheinstrasse .

The Schöneberg coat of arms designed by Paul Egeling

As a town planner, Egeling was also involved in urban development projects, for example he planned the Wartburgplatz , which was completed in 1902 . The coat of arms of Schöneberg, which was then used as the coat of arms of the Schöneberg district, comes from Egeling, whereby the deer he chose as heraldic animal is also included in the current coat of arms of the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district . Egeling was a participant in the 1905 International Housing Congress in Liège . On January 1, 1915 - at the age of 58 - Egeling retired as town planning officer. In the spring of 1915, the city council and city ​​council of Schöneberg awarded him the honorary title of " city ​​elder ".