Viktor von Weltzien

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Viktor Emil Alexander von Weltzien (born October 28, 1836 in Trier , † August 3, 1927 in Darmstadt ) was a German architect and secret senior building officer .

Life

Viktor von Weltzien was born as the son of the Prussian officer Theodor Carl Ulrich Ludwig von Weltzien (1802–1866) and his wife Antoinette nee. Mathis (1804-1854). He was married to Frieda geb. Stever (1852–1914) and had the children Adalbert Otto Theodor (1876–1955, graduate engineer), Ursula Helene Antonie, married von Stetten (1879–1955) and Julius Paul Joseph (1881–1955, lawyer). He grew up at his father's location, the Federal Fortress of Luxembourg , and attended high school in Luxembourg. In 1856 he began studying at the Berlin Building Academy and then worked as a site manager for the railway construction and the construction of the Castor Church in Koblenz . In 1866 he completed military service and in the same year joined the Gropius & Schmieden company . In 1867 he passed the master builder examination and had to do military service again in 1879/71. In 1880 he became a member of the Association of Berlin Architects and forging partners in the company Schmieden & von Weltzien , from 1881 Schmieden, von Weltzien & Speer . In 1888 he left the company to take up the position of a leading architect in the building department of the Grand Ducal Hessian Ministry of Finance in Darmstadt. There he was most recently a secret senior building officer and lecturing council and retired in 1898.

buildings

At Gropius & Schmieden

At Schmieden, von Weltzien & Speer

In Hessen

literature

  • Uwe Kieling: Berlin private architect and master railroad builder in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1988, p. 76, 77 .

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