Walter Gropius senior

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Walter Gropius senior (born May 22, 1848 , † February 19, 1911 in Charlottenburg ) was a German architect and Prussian building officer .

Life

After graduating from Friedrichs-Gymnasium , he studied at the Berlin Bauakademie from 1867 . In 1870/1871 he took part in the campaign against France as a one-year volunteer in the Guard Fusilier Regiment . He then worked as a site manager in Potsdam and Berlin. In 1882 he worked as a government master builder ( assessor ), in 1891 as a building inspector and in 1898 as a building officer at the police headquarters in Berlin , which at that time was also responsible for the construction of public roads, bridges and the tasks still known today as " building police ". In 1908 he was given the title of "Secret Building Councilor". He also received an honorary doctorate as Dr.-Ing. E. h.

Gropius was married on May 8, 1878 to Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber (* July 22, 1855 in Berlin, † January 22, 1933 in Hanover), a daughter of Georg Scharnweber , the district administrator of Niederbarnim and owner of the Hohenschönhausen manor . The marriage had four children, including the architect Walter Gropius junior.

tomb

Walter Gropius senior died in 1911 at the age of 62 in Charlottenburg and was buried in the old St. Matthew churchyard in Schöneberg . In the course of the leveling carried out by the National Socialists in 1938/1939 on this cemetery, Gropius' remains were reburied in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf near Berlin . The remarkable grave monument that Richard Scheibe designed for him is also located there today . Gropiusstrasse in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen was named after his wife as the heiress of the manor.

literature

  • Richard Gropius : Genealogy of the Gropius family. 2nd edition, Görlitz 1919.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appointment as government master builder Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , July 1, 1882, p. 225, accessed on December 11, 2012
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. pp. 302, 469.
  3. ↑ Gropiusstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Gropius, Walter senior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gropius, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and Prussian building officer
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1848
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1911
Place of death Berlin-Charlottenburg