Theodor von Lüpke

Participants in the German Aksum expedition in February 1906 in Aksum (from left): Theodor von Lüpke, the colonial doctor and collector Erich Kaschke , the governor of the Tigre province and relatives of Emperor Menelik II. Gebre Selassie , Enno Littmann and Daniel Krencker ;
Digitized version of the Free University of Berlin

Theodor Friedrich Heinrich von Lüpke (born April 12, 1873 in Hermannsburg , † April 13, 1961 in Bückeburg ) was a German architect , building researcher and documentary photographer as well as a promoter and user of photogrammetry .

Life

Theodor von Lüpke was the son of the pastor and inspector of the Hermannsburg mission seminar Carl von Lübke (1832-1881). Lüpke attended a grammar school in Hanover and studied structural engineering from 1894 to 1896, initially at the Technical University of Hanover as a pupil of Conrad Wilhelm Hase and Karl Mohrmann , from 1896 to 1897 at the Technical University of Munich and again in Hanover in the following years 1897 and 1898. While he was still a student, von Lüpke joined the Hanoverian Bauhütte zum white sheet in 1897 .

In 1898, Theodor von Lüpke began a legal clerkship as a government building supervisor , and a few years later in 1904, after having passed the 2nd state examination, he was appointed government building master ( Assessor ).

From 1907 von Lüpke worked in Berlin , on the one hand as a government builder in the Prussian Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs until 1911 , and on the other hand, from 1907 to 1909, initially as an unskilled worker and representative of the head of the Royal Prussian Messbild-Anstalt for monument recordings . In 1909 von Lüpke was one of the co-founders of the German Society for Photogrammetry , from the same year he temporarily managed the post of head of the measuring image institute until 1911. After his appointment as agricultural inspector in 1910, he was raised to the rank of government councilor in 1911. Also from 1911 he worked as head of the Messbildanstalt, which was renamed the Staatliche Bildstelle on July 1, 1922 .

In 1926 he was one of the founders of the Koldewey Society , and in 1929 he became a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Already in 1912, the photographer and Social Democrat had Otto Hagemann worked in the measurement image asylum before 1932 under the direction of Theodore of Lüpke and even before the seizure of power by the National Socialists was dismissed from the civil service - and later his request for redress presented.

Theodor von Lüpke retired in 1938.

Documentation

1902 Constantinople ( Ottoman Empire ): Documentation of Hagia Sophia by photogrammetry
1902–1903 Baalbek ( Lebanon ): Photogrammetric documentation of the entire city
1906 Aksum ( Abyssinia ): Photogrammetric documentation during the German Aksum expedition under Enno Littmann , parallel to this, drawings of buildings, sculptures and maps
1906 Constantinople (Turkey): renewed photogrammetric documentation of Hagia Sopia
1910 Berlin-Mitte : Photographic documentation of historic residential buildings
1910 Greece : Photographic documentation of various ancient sites
1911–1912 Potsdam : Photographic documentation of historic houses and street spaces
1928 Constantinople (Turkey): Photogrammetric documentation of the built Theodosian city wall
1928 Aizanoi in Anatolia (Turkey): Photographic documentation of the Roman temple as well as a topographical documentation of the entire historical city area
1935–1936 Nuremberg : inventory of the city by photography
1937 Paris : Presentation of the German preservation of monuments at the "small" world exhibition, the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne
1940s, German Reich: Documentation of various theater buildings using own photographs, drawings and texts

Fonts

with Enno Littmann : travel report of the expedition. Topography and history of Aksum (= German Aksum Expedition , Vol. 1), G. Reimer, Berlin 1913; contents
with Robert Zahn , Daniel Krencker : Older Monuments North Abyssinia (= German Aksum Expedition , Vol. 2), G. Reimer, Berlin 1913
with Enno Littmann, Daniel Krencker: Secular and cultural buildings of North Abessia from older and more recent times (= Deutsche Aksum-Expedition , Vol. 3), G. Reimer, Berlin 1913
The State Image Center and the Measurement Image Procedure , Berlin, [after 1921]
with Daniel Krencker, Hermann Winnefeld : Baalbek , Volume 2, Association of Scientific Publishers, Berlin 1923
Recordings directory. Staatliche Bildstelle , 3rd edition, 2 volumes, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1926
Old Nuremberg in new photos. Prussian Academy of Arts. State Image Agency. Exhibition on the 50th anniversary of the Staatliche Bildstelle (Messbildanstalt), 1885–1935 , Staatliche Bildstelle, Berlin 1935
The land wall of Constantinople , part 1: Drawing restoration with accompanying text (= monuments of ancient architecture , vol. 6), by Fritz Krischen . Photographs by Theodor von Lüpke. de Gruyter, Berlin 1938
Old Nuremberg. 54 photographs based on photographs taken by the Staatliche Bildstelle, Berlin. Selected and done by Lüpke (= explanations of Benzinger's photos for class ). Benzinger, Stuttgart 1940

literature

Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung
- Volume 24, 1904, No. 59, p. 369. ( Official communications section )
- 27th year 1907,
  - No. 13, pp. 90-92. (regarding the monuments in Aksum in Abyssinia)
  - No. 39, p. 257 (section official notices )
- 30th year 1910, No. 35, p. 237. ( Official communications section )
- 31st year 1911, No. 51, p. 313. ( Official communications section )
- 36th year 1916,
  - No. 17, pp. 125-129. (German research in Abyssinia I)
  - No. 19, pp. 137-142. (German research in Abyssinia II)
- 38th year 1918, No. 91/92, p. 456 (rubric miscellaneous )
Eberhard Hillebrand : About the reawakening of the Gothic in Germany in the middle of the last century . Hanover 1923. ( manuscript )
Günther Kokkelink , Monika Lemke-Kokkelink : Architecture in Northern Germany. Architecture and handicrafts of the Hanover School 1850–1900. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 1998, ISBN 3-87706-538-4 , p. 547.
Steffen Wenig (ed.): Ethiopia and Eritrea 100 years ago. Historical photographs by Theodor von Lüpke. The German Aksum expedition in 1906 led by the German orientalist Enno Littmann. Humboldt University - Seminar for Archeology and Cultural History of Northeast Africa, Berlin 2005.
Reiner Koppe: Theodor von Lüpke 1873–1961. Architect, building researcher and photographer. His photographic contribution to the German Aksum expedition in 1906. In: Steffen Wenig (Hrsg.): In imperial order. The German Aksum Expedition in 1906 under Enno Littmann . Volume 1: The actors and the scientific undertakings of the DAE in Eritrea . Lindensoft, Aichwald 2006, ISBN 3-929290-33-2 , p. 129 ff.
German Biographical Archive
Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 1931 edition

Archival material

Archival materials by and about Theodor von Lüpke can be found, for example

in the archive of the Bauhütte Hannover, Braunstraße 28
in the city archive of Hanover

Web links

Reinhard Glaß: von Lüpke, Theodor Friedrich Heinrich in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) on the page glass-portal.privat.t-online.de

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u Reinhard glass: from Lüpke, Theodor Friedrich Heinrich in the database designers and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818-1902) on the page glass-portal.privat.t-online.de , last accessed on May 2, 2017
↑ Lüpke, Theodor von in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , edited on July 11, 2006, last accessed on May 2, 2017.
^ ^A ^b Christian Schindler: Architecture on Glass: Photographs by Otto Hagemann in the Landesarchiv Berlin exhibited on the page of the advertising newspaper Berliner Woche on November 14, 2016, last accessed on May 2, 2017.
↑ The land wall of Constantinople , part 1: Drawing restoration with accompanying text (= monuments of ancient architecture , vol. 6), by Fritz Krischen. Photographs by Theodor von Lüpke. de Gruyter, Berlin 1938.

personal data
SURNAME	Lüpke, Theodor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lüpke, Theodor Friedrich Heinrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect, Prussian construction officer, documentary photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 12, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hermannsburg
DATE OF DEATH	April 13, 1961
Place of death	Buckeburg

[glassportal-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u Reinhard glass: from Lüpke, Theodor Friedrich Heinrich in the database designers and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818-1902) on the page glass-portal.privat.t-online.de , last accessed on May 2, 2017

[2] Lüpke, Theodor von in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , edited on July 11, 2006, last accessed on May 2, 2017.

[Schindler-3] A ^b Christian Schindler: Architecture on Glass: Photographs by Otto Hagemann in the Landesarchiv Berlin exhibited on the page of the advertising newspaper Berliner Woche on November 14, 2016, last accessed on May 2, 2017.

[4] The land wall of Constantinople , part 1: Drawing restoration with accompanying text (= monuments of ancient architecture , vol. 6), by Fritz Krischen. Photographs by Theodor von Lüpke. de Gruyter, Berlin 1938.