Wilhelm Heinrich Minter

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Wilhelm Heinrich Minter (Polish: Wilhelm Henryk Minter ; born May 1, 1777 in Stettin ; † April 18, 1832 in Warsaw ) was an officer in the engineering corps of the army of the Duchy of Warsaw and Congress Poland and an important architect who worked mainly in Warsaw.

Life

Minter was a son of the Szczecin administrative officer Michael Christoph Minter and his wife Johanna Elisabeth, nee. Herbs. His brother was the lithographer Karl Friedrich Minter, the son of his sister Henryka Beyer was the Warsaw photographer Karol Beyer . Minter probably received his basic training as a military engineer and architect in the cadet institute in Potsdam . He was a student of David Gilly , for whom he also built a granary in Warsaw. Around 1800 he moved to Warsaw , then in South Prussia , where he worked as a builder and architect until the end of his life. For a while he was site manager in the property management of Prince Józef Antoni Poniatowski . After Prussia withdrew from Warsaw in 1806, he stayed there and began working for the Polish army.

In the Polish army he served from 1810 as a captain in the engineering corps. As Poniatowski's adjutant , he took part in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in 1813 (as battalion commander) and received the Golden Cross of the Virtuti Militari military order . In 1815 he was a major. During the time of Congress Poland, Minter was in the rank of colonel (from 1827) head of the military construction department (until 1830) and responsible for the construction of many Warsaw barracks as well as the cadet school ( Szkoła Podchorążych ) in Łazienki Park .

During the November uprising of 1830/1831 Minter wanted to join the rebels, but was not accepted as a German. The Polish general Klemens Kołaczkowski, Minter's superior at the time, regretted this. Minter was married to Krystyna Rzempołuska, the couple remained childless. Since 1819 he was a member of the Freemasons . He was buried in the Evangelical Augsburg cemetery in Warsaw. His collection of drawings and building plans, the so-called Minter Portfolio (Polish: “Teki Minterowskie”) is now in the collections of the University of Warsaw .

Buildings (selection)

  • Sierakowski Palace

  • Pavilion X of the Warsaw Citadel

  • Sapieha Palace

  • Collegium Nobillium

  • arsenal

See also

References and comments

  1. ^ Karl Friedrich Minter (Polish: Karol Fryderyk Minter; 1780–1847), younger brother of Wilhelm Heinrich Minter, was a painter, lithographer and Warsaw entrepreneur
  2. ↑ according to Danuta Jackiewicz, Karol Beyer. 1818-1877 , from the series: Photographers of Warsaw , Dom Spotkań z Historia and Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie (eds.), ISBN 978-83-62020-48-5 , Warsaw 2012, p. 6
  3. ↑ according to Eduard Führ (ed.), David Gilly: Renewers of Building Culture ISBN 978-3-8309-2054-0 , Waxmann, Munich / Berlin 2008, p. 64
  4. ↑ Klemens Kołaczkowski (1793–1873) was a distinguished Polish general
  5. ↑ a b according to Aleksander Wejnert (ed.), Starożytności Warszawskie. Dzieło Zbiorowo , Volume 5, Drukarnia Banku Polskiego, Warsaw 1857, p. 140 (in Polish)

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SURNAME Minter, Wilhelm Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Polish architect and officer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1832
Place of death Warsaw