Paul Vermehren (architect)

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Paul Adolf Vermehren (born August 18, 1848 in Lübeck ; † September 2, 1944 there ) was a German architect.

Life

Paul Vermehren was a son of the general agent of the German Life Insurance Company in Lübeck Julius Vermehren and his wife Maria Wilhelmina, born. Christians. The future Senator Julius Vermehren was his younger brother.

He studied architecture with a degree in engineering . From 1880 to 1887 he worked as an architect in Lübeck, from 1883 in the architecture office Vermehren & Dorn .

In April 1887 he went to the United States, where he helped build the Santa Fe Railroad . He entered into a partnership with a German compatriot, but had to file for bankruptcy. He then opened a cigar shop in El Paso near the Mexican border. He became a citizen of the United States on January 10, 1898 in El Paso . In the same year, he was drawn to the railway boom in Mexico - and traveled to Mexico City to take part in that railway expansion, but the train collapsed near the city of Torreón in the Mexican state of Coahuila . A major repair was necessary, for which spare parts had to be imported from the USA. During this forced stay in Torreon, he was approached by a French soap manufacturer who lived in the village of Lerdo at the foot of the Sierra and was looking for an accountant . Paul Vermehren accepted the job. His wife Wilhelmine Amalie Anna, b. Graefe (1855–1934), whom he married in May 1877 in Wandsbek, and his daughter soon followed, while his son Julius August (* 1878) stayed in Denver to do a bank apprenticeship.

In 1904 he returned to Lübeck. Here he entered into a partnership with the architect Willy Glogner (1869–1968). Her architecture office under the company Glogner & Vermehren planned numerous public and residential buildings in Lübeck, stylistically often influenced by historicism and homeland security architecture , and later also by brick expressionism . Many of the buildings are now listed .

buildings

  • Gertrudenstrasse 7, 1881
  • Kronsford Allee 5a, 1883
  • Mengstrasse 15, remodeled in 1884

Glogner & Vermehren

  • Schifferhof , Engelsgrube 1–17, built in 1908
  • New building for the de Herthoge monastery in Lübeck-Vorwerk, Am Behnckenhof, built in 1908
  • Gym Grevesmühlen , 1910
  • Lodge house of the Lodge Zur Weltkugel , Mengstrasse 7–11, built in 1912/13, destroyed in 1942
  • Curtius Street 17 (1912), 21/23 (1913), 27 (1915)
  • Seemannsheim , An der Untertrave 1, (replaced by a new building in 1960), built in 1913 in the homeland security style
  • Travemünder Kursaal, later Casino Travemünde , was built in 1913/14
  • Administration building of the stamping and enamelling works vorm. Carl Thiel & Sons , Schwartauer Allee
  • Seetempel , Travemünde, new building after fire in 1930, demolished in 1987
  • Gate of Hope , 1936/37
  • Luther Church , 1937

  • Seaman's home

  • Casino Travemünde

  • Administration building

  • Gate of hope

  • Luther Church

Web links

Commons : Paul Vermehren (architect)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Building and architectural history, urban development in Lübeck , G.04 Building certificates SZ: p. 43
  2. ↑ US Passport applications, accessed on ancestry.com on August 27, 2018
  3. ↑ Wandsbek Marriage Register No. 46/1877, accessed on ancestry.com on August 27, 2018
  4. ↑ Vaterstädtische Blätter 1924/25, p. 39
  5. ↑ Lübeckische Blätter 50 (1908), p. 592
  6. ↑ New construction of an administration building for the stamping and enamelling works vorm. Carl Thiel & Sons AG in Lübeck. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , vol. 58, No. 29, edition of April 9, 1924
personal data
SURNAME Increase, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Multiply, Paul Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1944
Place of death Lübeck