Wilhelm Emil Meerwein
Wilhelm Emil Meerwein (born September 17, 1844 in Amsterdam , † January 25, 1927 in Hamburg ) was a German architect .
Life
Emil Meerwein came from a family in Baden and spent his childhood in Switzerland . At the Polytechnic in Zurich he studied with Gottfried Semper , one of the most influential architects and architectural theorists of the 19th century . After further years of study in Karlsruhe , where he met his future partner Bernhard Georg Hanssen , and at the Berlin Building Academy , he first worked as a site manager at the Royal Mint in Berlin . Study trips took him to Sweden , Austria , Italy , Greece and the Ottoman Empire before he worked for Christian Friedrich von Leins in Stuttgart from 1871 to 1873 .
1873 associate it after winning a contest for Villa General's Beautiful in Hamburg with his college friend Bernhard Hanssen. In the years up to the turn of the century, Hanssen and Meerwein established themselves as one of the most important Hamburg architecture firms and built a large number of well-known buildings. One of the most famous is the Kaispeicher B in Hamburg, which the office built together with the engineer Alexander Schäfer in 1878/1879. The Kaispeicher B, built before the establishment of the free port and about ten years before the construction of the Speicherstadt , is the oldest surviving structure in the free port. It has been a listed building since 2001 and has housed the International Maritime Museum Hamburg since 2008 . Hanssen and Meerwein also played a leading role in the construction of the Speicherstadt, which was headed by Franz Andreas Meyer (1837–1901), William Lindley's successor as head of engineering in the Hanseatic city .
Emil Meerwein belonged to 1880 by Martin Haller founded Hall builder collar on, the seven architects who in 1885 of Senate and Parliament of Hamburg with the construction of the Hamburg City Hall were commissioned. The foundation stone was laid on May 6, 1886, the inauguration on October 26, 1897.
In 1899 he was the judge of a competition for the design of a Stollwerck scrapbook for Stollwerck collectible pictures together with Justus Brinckmann , Georg Hulbe and painter Julius Christian Rehder (1861–1955) from Hamburg and Bruno Schmitz from Berlin.
As a renowned architect, Meerwein was a member of the Hamburg city council from 1901 to 1919 , which is why he largely withdrew from the active activities in the Hanssen und Meerwein office in 1901 . The office was closed in 1905 when Bernhard Hanssen retired for health reasons.
His tomb is located in the extensive grounds of the Meerwein , Canel , Hanssen , and Laeisz families in Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery . His son is the chemist Hans Meerwein (1879–1965).
buildings
- 1880–1884: Extension of the Hamburg Stock Exchange in Hamburg, Alter Wall (together with Bernhard Hanssen)
- 1881–1883: Hotel " Hamburger Hof " in Hamburg, Jungfernstieg
- 1897–1898: "Laeisz-Hof" office building in Hamburg, see Trostbrücke (with Bernhard Hanssen and Martin Haller)
- 1904–1908: Laeiszhalle in Hamburg
The Meerweinstrasse in the Winterhuder Jarrestadt is named after Emil Meerwein .
Web links
- On the history of the Hamburg town hall
- Information on the construction of the Kaispeicher B on geschichtsspuren.de (formerly lostplaces.de)
- photos
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kunstgewerbeblatt , Volume 10, 1899, p. #.
- ↑ Family grave at frederiks.de
- ↑ http://www.jarrestadt-archiv.de/strassen_jarrestadt_archiv/index_strassen.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meerwein, Wilhelm Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and politician, MdHB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 1927 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |