Paul Korff

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Paul Korff

Paul Johannes Adolf Korff (born October 25, 1875 in Laage ; † May 2, 1945 there ) was a German builder and architect . He was best known for the construction of department stores, manor houses and mansions.

Life

Paul Korff was the son of the independent master mason Friedrich Korff from Laage. After graduating from school in Güstrow , he attended the Neustadt-Glewe technical center for vocational training . Around 1897 he got a job in the office of the Oberhofbaurate Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel in Doberan , for whom he took over the construction management at the Trinity Church in Hainichen . There, in Saxony, he met his wife. His next stop was Rostock , where he and his business partner Alfred Krause founded an architecture office in 1899. During this time, the building contract for the hotel “Stadt Waren” in Waren (Müritz) , which still exists under this name, and the hospital in Laage, which was inaugurated in 1902, fell. In 1903 he relocated the center of his life, also on business, to his hometown Laage, where he founded a company with around 20 employees under the name "Landhausbaubüro Laage". The company existed under this name until around 1929.

From now on, the business is not likely to have been limited to pure architectural assignments. His family background and the resulting local fame enabled him to enter the construction business on a larger scale. There is no other explanation for the relatively high number of employees for an architect. He dealt with the modernization of residential and utility buildings on the many manors in the area as well as with public building contracts. Among other things, he converted a manor in Badow in 1906 , and from 1910 to 1912 the Bellin Castle near Güstrow was converted according to his plans. Both objects were classical and were reinterpreted by him as neo-baroque. The Büttelkow manor house in the municipality of Biendorf , which was built at the same time on behalf of a banking family from Oldenburg , combined elements of neo-baroque with classicist echoes and even elements of art nouveau. His later style is influenced by the architecture of the Werkbund such as Hermann Muthesius and Paul Schultze-Naumburg .

Soon after the outbreak of World War I, Korff, like many other architects from the Reich, moved to East Prussia . The Russian army had left great devastation in East Prussia in 1914. After the Tsar's troops were repulsed, a local building boom developed in the middle of the war with the aim of rebuilding the region as quickly as possible. Korff's work has not yet been proven there, but drawings of furniture from this period have been preserved, which suggest that he was not only concerned with the design of houses there. In between he still had time to work out plans for conversions, extensions and new buildings in Rostock and Güstrow.

After the war, business apparently got worse and worse. For this time, the plans for the reconstruction of the town hall in Malchin, which was destroyed by fire in 1925 (construction completed in 1927), as well as the design of the memorial for the fallen at Teterow can be verified . One of his last and above all better-known works was the new building of the Catholic Church in Güstrow in the then modern style of New Objectivity . The water tower was built in his hometown of Laage in the 1920s. During the global economic crisis , Korff's business seems to have fallen asleep or to have been taken over by his son-in-law Hermann Gätjen. During the following years his life is hardly documented, only the sale of his house around 1941/42 and the loss of all his documents during the chaos of war are known. Shortly before the Red Army marched in , on May 2, 1945, Paul Korff and his wife voluntarily passed out of their lives. They were buried in a common grave in the Laage cemetery.

A memorial plaque has been attached to Paul Korff's former home in Bahnhofsstraße in Laage (own design, known as the “Korffsche Villa”).

Paul Korff was a member of the German Werkbund and the Association of German Architects .

Buildings and designs

  • 1902 Hotel "Stadt Waren" in Waren (Müritz)
  • 1902 Hospital in Laage
  • 1903 Publishing house of the "Rostocker Anzeiger" in Doberaner Strasse in Rostock
  • 1903 manor house in Stubbendorf (near Ticino)
  • 1903 mansion in Badow
  • 1903 Clubhouse of the "Mecklenburg Yacht Club" in Rostock- Gehlsdorf
  • 1903 to 1907 manor house , workers' houses and inspector's house in Wendorf
  • 1905 Hotel "Zur Goldenen Kugel" in Neubrandenburg
  • 1905 manor house in Groß Großen
  • 1907 own house with studio in Laage
  • 1907 Villa Boddenwacht in Ahrenshoop
  • 1907 Design "Binah Vollbuer" for the competition of the Heimatbund Mecklenburg for a small farm with praise
  • 1907 Design "Alles unner ein Dack" for the competition of the Heimatbund Mecklenburg for a small farm with praise
  • 1908 mansion on Gut Zarnekow b. Wismar
  • 1909 Design for the competition to build the new Kurhaus Warnemünde with a second prize
  • 1909 Rostocker Bank, today Deutsche Bank in Rostock
  • 1909 Gustav Zeeck's house (" Zeeck'sche Villa ") in Rostock
  • 1909 summer house for Dr. Scheven, Warnemünde
  • 1909 summer house for lawyer Kiesow, Warnemünde
  • 1909–1911 mansion in Wichmannsdorf (Kröpelin)
  • 1909–1910 spa hotel in Schwerin-Zippendorf
  • 1910 Manor house Büttelkow in Biendorf (Mecklenburg)
  • 1910 Zeeck department store in Rostock
  • 1911 Reconstruction of the manor house in Pötenitz
  • 1911–1912 Castle in Bellin
  • 1911–1912 Manor at Gut Hasenwinkel near Neukloster
  • 1911–1912 mansion on Gut Lübzin
  • 1912 residential house in Rostock, St.-Georg-Straße 103 / Am Reifergraben
  • 1912 Hans Winterstein's house in Rostock, Schillerplatz 10
  • 1912 country house in Güstrow
  • 1912 mansion in Groß Timkenberg
  • 1912 "Haus Magdeburg" residential building in Güstrow
  • 1912–1913 “Villa Siegfried” house in Schwerin, Schloßgartenallee
  • 1912 mansion in Moisall
  • 1912–1913 mansion in Mentin near Parchim
  • 1912–1913 mansion in Lehnenhof near Neubukow
  • before 1912 country house in Beckerwitz
  • before 1912 mansion in Barz
  • before 1912 mansion in Hülseburg
  • 1913 Business building in Güstrow
  • 1913 commercial building in Marggrabowa (now in Poland)
  • 1913 office building in Waren (Müritz)
  • 1913–1914 Gustav Zeeck textile department store in Kolberg (now Poland)
  • 1914 Reconstruction of a department store in Krakow am See
  • 1914 C. Lehment office building (later "Grundgeyer") in Rostock
  • 1914 Blücher monument in Laage
  • before 1915 Schlüter department store (now C&A) in Rostock
  • 1915 Reconstruction of the Speiser office building (today Kieser, Steinstrasse) in Rostock
  • before 1916 administration building in Güstrow
  • between 1916 and 1922 textile department store Gustav Zeeck in Köslin (today Poland)
  • between 1918 and 1920 Vollrathsruhe Castle
  • before 1920 Castle in Plathe (now Poland)
  • before 1920 Schloss Speck (Pomerania), location unclear
  • 1922–1923 Hesslerhof in Mainz-Amöneburg
  • before 1923 administration building of the Neptunwerft (today the EUFH med) in Rostock
  • 1927 Reconstruction of the town hall in Malchin
  • 1927 War memorial 1914–18 in Teterow
  • 1928–1929 Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Güstrow
  • 1930 Renovation and partial reconstruction of the manor house in Rothspalk

gallery

  • Manor house in Stubbendorf near Ticino

  • Manor house in Badow

  • Zeeck department store in Rostock

  • Manor house Büttelkow

  • Memorial on the Heidberg near Teterow

  • Church of the Assumption of Mary in Güstrow

  • EUFH med in Rostock (formerly the Neptunwerft administration building)

literature

  • From lock to cottage: special impressions of the work of the agricultural office of the architect Korff-Laage , Schwerin 1910 digitized
  • Neidhardt Krauss: The palace buildings of Paul Korff in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. In: Architecture in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania 1800–1950. Steinbecker Verlag, Greifswald 1995, ISBN 3-931483-02-9 , pp. 242-247.
  • Alexander Schacht: The Rostock architect Alfred Krause (1866–1930). In: Rostocker Zorenappels. City writer story (s). Vol. 2 (2008), pp. 74-77.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5299 .

Web links

Commons : Paul Korff  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.Herrenhaus-Rothspalk.de
personal data
SURNAME Korff, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Korff, Paul Johannes Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Laage
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1945
Place of death Laage