Philipp Nitze
Philipp Nitze , complete: Carl Friedrich Philipp Nitze , (born March 1, 1873 in Berlin ; † 1946 ) was a German architect and construction clerk . From 1912 to 1925, as Reichsbank building director, he was the head of the building office of the Deutsche Reichsbank .
Life
Philipp Nitze came from a Berlin family of architects. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin and entered the Prussian civil service after graduating. He initially worked as a government architect in Halle / Saale.
In 1903 he became a municipal building officer in Wilmersdorf ; in the same year he became Dr.-Ing. PhD.
Nitze was a close friend of the late Julius Habicht , Reichsbank construction director from 1906 to 1912. In 1912, he joined the Reichsbank as his successor. As Reichsbank construction director, he was responsible for the construction of over 100 branches of the Reichsbank as well as numerous residential buildings for Reichsbank officials. Nitze was in charge of the construction office until 1925; He was succeeded by his former colleague Heinrich Wolff .
From 1926 he worked as a freelance architect in Berlin. Since January 1926 he was a full member of the Prussian Academy of Building .
He was married to Elsa, born in 1899. Supf (1879–1956), a daughter of the entrepreneur Karl Supf . The couple found their final resting place in the Supf family grave at Dahlem cemetery .
buildings
- 1901–1904 Grunewald Church with rectory (with Fritz Bräuning )
- 1908/09 Wilmersdorf fire station, Gasteiner Strasse 19/20
- 1910 Old Reichsbank in Haspe, Haenelstrasse 52
- 1911/13 Higher Girls' School Wilmersdorf (today Otto-von-Guericke-Oberschule, Eisenzahnstraße 47/48)
- from 1914 execution of the Reichsbank building planned by Habicht in Hamburg, today Bucerius Kunst Forum
- 1914 Haus Nitze, Berlin Dahlem, Im Schwarzen Grund 4
- 1922/24 residential buildings for officials of the Reichsbank, Berlin-Dahlem
- 1923 Reichsbank branch in Magdeburg, today Cathedral Museum Ottonianum Magdeburg
- 1924/25 Technical building of the Reichsbank, Berlin, Oberwasserstraße
- 1926 House Supf, Berlin-Dahlem, Musäusstrasse 2
- further Reichsbank buildings in Tilsit , Worms , Mönchengladbach , Hannover-Linden , Helmstedt , Unna , Hohenlimburg , Rheine , Aue (1915/16), Berlin-Spandau (1927).
The buildings he designed, as far as they have been preserved, are now mostly listed buildings .
See also:
- List of cultural monuments in Berlin-Wilmersdorf (5 buildings by Nitze)
- List of cultural monuments in Berlin-Dahlem (4 buildings by Nitze)
Fonts
- The Protestant Grunewald Church: built in the years 1902–1904. Berlin: Wasmuth 1904
- (with Karl Keller): Greater Berlin's structural future: Proposals for reforming the building regulations. Berlin-Grunewald: Renaissance-Verlag Robert Federn 1910 (= publications of the Greater Berlin Settlement Association)
- The development of housing in Greater Berlin. Berlin: Heymann 1913
- Julius Habicht †, Berlin. Leipzig: Arnd, [1913]
literature
- Margit Heinker: The Architecture of the Deutsche Reichsbank 1876–1918. Münster 1998, zugl .: Münster (Westphalia), Univ., Diss., 1994 ISBN 978-3-00-003732-0
- Christian Welzbacher: The state architecture of the Weimar Republic. Berlin: Lukas-Verlag 2006 ISBN 3-936872-62-7 , p. 304 f.
Web links
- Philipp Nitze. In: arch INFORM .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Welzbacher: The state architecture of the Weimar Republic. P. 304
- ↑ Christian Welzbacher: The state architecture of the Weimar Republic. P. 305
- ^ Landesdenkmalamt Berlin
- ↑ Christian Welzbacher: The state architecture of the Weimar Republic. P. 305
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Nitze, Philipp |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nitze, Carl Friedrich Philipp (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and construction officer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1873 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | 1946 |