Walter Kern (architect)
Walter Kern (born May 24, 1860 in Breslau ; † December 14, 1918 in the Ukraine; full name: Walter Carl Urban Kern ) was a German architect and Prussian construction officer .
Life
Walter Kern was the son of the Wroclaw bookseller Johann Urban Kern, a cousin of Carl Theodor Reiffenstein .
He was baptized on July 4, 1860 in the Magdalenenkirche in Breslau and attended the Maria Magdalenen grammar school from 1870 to 1877 . After studying at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg and the Technical University of Vienna and completing a legal clerkship , in 1887 he passed the 2nd state examination to become a government architect ( assessor ). In 1897 he advanced to the position of building inspector and head of a building construction office. After being appointed building officer , he worked on buildings in Berlin and Brandenburg .
Kern was a soldier in World War I and died in 1918 while his troops marched back from Russia.
Walter Kern was married to Johanna Flora Katharina geb. Schröter, a daughter of the mathematician Heinrich Eduard Schröter , who worked as a university professor in Breslau . One of Kern's nephews was Erwin Kern , who was one of the murderers of Walther Rathenau in 1922 .
buildings
- Police building at Hundekehle in (Berlin-) Grunewald
- 1911: New rifle house in Trebbin
- 1914–1919: Lukaskirche in (Berlin-) Steglitz (completed posthumously)
- 1897/1898: Royal District Office in Bytom ( Upper Silesia ), now Dependence of the Upper Silesian Museum
- 1899: Own house in (Berlin-) Steglitz , Mittelstrasse 5
- 1908–1910: German Institute for Nutritional Research , Bergholz-Rehbrücke , former retirement home for the blind
- Women's Clinic Dr. Glasses in Gdansk
- House for medical councilor Dr. Alberts in Berlin, Schlossstrasse
- Kurhaus in the Baltic resort of Leba ( Pomerania )
- 1908: Auguste-Victoria-Krippe children's home in (Berlin-) Schöneberg
- Villa Vineta in the Baltic Sea resort of Bansin
- Conversions of schools in
- Groß-Ziethen
- King Wusterhausen
- Trebbin
- Conversions and extensions of churches:
- St. Josef Church in (Berlin-) Koepenick
- Village church in (Berlin-) Müggelheim
- Village church in (Berlin-) Rudow
- City church St. Andreas in Teltow
Lukas Church in Berlin-Steglitz
Former Royal District Office Bytom (Upper Silesia)
Kurhaus Leba
Villa Vineta in Bansin
Village church in Berlin-Müggelheim
Parish Church of St. Josef in Berlin-Koepenick
Village church in Berlin-Rudow
City church St. Andreas in Teltow
New shooting house in Trebbin
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literature
- Kern, Walter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 185 .
- P. Graef: Walter Kern †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . 39th year 1919, No. 23/24 (from March 15, 1919), p. 122 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 21, 1901, No. 33 (from April 27, 1901), p. 203.
- ↑ bytom.fotopolska.eu Royal District Office
- ^ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 21, 1901, No. 61 (from August 3, 1901), p. 374.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kern, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kern, Walter Carl Urban (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and Prussian building officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 1918 |
| Place of death | Ukraine |