Wilhelm Housselle

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Wilhelm Housselle (born April 5, 1841 in Elbing ; † September 24, 1910 in Potsdam ) was a German architect and railroad builder.

life and work

Wilhelm Housselle was the son of a Huguenot doctor, married Frida Haak in 1868 and had at least one son, Otto, who later became a councilor in Potsdam. In 1854 the family moved to Stralsund and in 1856 to Berlin . There Housselle graduated from the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in 1858, studied at the building academy from 1858 to 1861 with a final building manager examination . He then worked for Friedrich Adler at the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn . In 1866 he received the Schinkel Prize from the Architects' Association and traveled to Tyrol.

In 1867 he passed the building master's exam and traveled to Holland, Belgium, France and England. From January 1868 to 1871 he worked for the Deutsche Eisenbahngesellschaft in Berlin under Ernst Dircksen in the construction of the circular railway . Further activities followed from July 1871 to March 1874 at the Anhalter Railway Company, where he worked on the renovation of the Anhalter Bahnhof , from 1874 to January 1877 as a master railroad builder in Saarbrücken, responsible for the construction of the Moselle and Fischbach Railway, and from 1877 to 1901 at the Royal Railway Directorate in Berlin , initially as a railway construction and operations inspector, from January 1886 as a government and construction adviser and from April 1891 as a member of the board. From 1874 to 1883 he was involved, again with Ernst Dircksen, in the construction of the Berlin light rail from the Schlesisches Bahnhof to Charlottenburg . In 1886 he was co-editor of the work " Berlin and its buildings ". In 1901 he retired. From 1880 to 1889 and 1893 to 1896 he was a board member of the architects' association.

literature

  • Uwe Kieling: Berlin private architect and master railroad builder in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1988, p. 34 .

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personal data
SURNAME Housselle, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and master railroad builder
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Elblag
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1910
Place of death Potsdam