Paul Ehmig

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Paul Ehmig (born August 30, 1874 in Reudnitz near Leipzig , † August 12, 1938 in Schwerin (by suicide)) was a German architect and construction clerk in the Mecklenburg state service.

biography

Ehmig, a talented craftsman's son, attended a secondary school in his hometown of Leipzig and studied at the Technical University of Dresden and the Technical University of Munich .

After his appointment as the Saxon government master builder ( assessor in public building construction), he followed a call in 1905 as building senator and president of the municipal building administration in Rostock , where he created a development plan for Warnemünde , among other things .

In 1908 he became Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Construction Director and Head of the State Building Administration in Schwerin, initially as a Ministerial Councilor, and in 1911 as Ministerial Director of the Building Construction Department in the Ministry of Finance in the Grand Duchy and later the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . On September 25, 1916, he and the secret building officer Gustav Hamann received the gold medal from Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

After many years of work, he completed his three-volume work Das deutsche Haus , for which the Technical University of Hanover awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1920 .

In 1928, Ehmig took his leave from work for a given official, not personal reason and went into retirement .

Ehmig's most important public buildings include the State Archives in Schwerin (1909–1911) and the justice building on Schwerin’s Demmlerplatz (1913–1916). According to his design from 1916, the Ehrenfriedhof was built on the Schwerin Old Cemetery .

Ehmig was a full member of the Free German Academy of Urban Development .

In 1931 he built the Villa Seehaus in Cecilienallee (today Schloßgartenallee 66) , which he lived in until 1936. It can be assumed that Ehmig chose suicide, because he was considered a second-degree Jewish mixed race and had a Jewish background . His mother was half Jewish . Ehmig was found dead on August 12, 1938 in the Kreuzkanal of the Schwerin palace gardens. His estate is in the state main archive in Schwerin.

Works

Buildings and designs

His own designs include:

Fonts

  • The German house. Six books on development, conditions, plant, construction, furnishing and interior. Berlin 1914-1922.
  • Cultural foundations of urban planning. Berlin 1927.

literature

  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 374.
  • Hans-Heinz Schütt: “Saxa loquuntur, let the stones do the talking!” Paul Ehmig, a master builder in Mecklenburg. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1999, ISBN 3-86108-751-0 .
  • Gerhard Steiniger: The government builder Paul Ehmig. In: Builders in Mecklenburg from eight centuries. Schwerin 1998, ISBN 3-928820-88-5 , pp. 120-214.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LHAS 2.26-1 Grand Ducal Cabinet Part III. No. 879.
  2. ^ Friedrich Preßler: State building administration in Mecklenburg. From construction department to construction management. 2011, p. 22. (unpublished)
  3. ↑ Gerhard Steiniger: The government builder Paul Ehmig. 1998, p. 214.
personal data
SURNAME Eh, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and Mecklenburg construction clerk
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1938
Place of death Schwerin