Wilhelm Martens (architect)

Wilhelm Jacob Johann Martens (born March 4, 1842 in Segeberg ; † January 22, 1910 in Grunewald ) was a German architect who was considered a specialist in bank buildings.

Life

Martens, son of the seminar teacher Johann Martens, studied with Martin Gropius and married his daughter Bertha Antonie in 1876. After Martens' death she married the lawyer Heinrich Delbrück , who was married to her sister Elisabeth Caroline for the first time.

Buildings and designs

Building of the former Berliner Bank in Berlin

Deutsche Bank at the Domshof in Bremen

• 1885–1886: Bank building for the Bayerische Vereinsbank in Munich, Kardinal-Faulhaber-Straße 14 / Maffeistraße (listed)
• 1889–1891: Deutsche Bank am Domshof for the Deutsche Bank branch in Bremen
• 1891–1892: Villa for the manufacturer Paul Herz in the Alsen colony in Berlin-Wannsee, Am Großen Wannsee 52/54 (under monument protection)
• 1892–1893: Own residential building with architecture office in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Fasanenstrasse 26 (preserved modified, listed). In the 1920s, the future Pope Pius XII lived. the upper part of Wilhelm Martens' two-story apartment; The Berlin representative office of Suhrkamp Verlag was located in the now separated lower part .
• 1892–1893: Apartment building of the safe factory SJ Arnheim in Berlin, Badstrasse 40/41 (under monument protection)
• 1896–1897: Bank building for the mortgage bank in Hamburg , Hohe Bleichen 18, Hamburg-Neustadt (the building no longer exists.)
• 1898: Silesian Bank Corporation, Breslau
• 1901 -0000: Bank building for the Berliner Bank in Berlin, founded in 1871 , Behrenstrasse 46 / Charlottenstrasse 47 / Rosmarinstrasse 10 (changed, preserved, under monument protection, today the seat of the German Savings Banks and Giro Association)
• 1905 -0000: Bank building for the branch of Bergisch-Märkische Bank AG in Düsseldorf , Königsallee 45 / Benrather Straße (under monument protection since 1983)
• 1906 -0000: Bank building of the Sparkasse in Bremen , Am Brill 1 / Bürgermeister-Smidt-Straße
• 1908 -0000: Extension of the bank building of the Essener Credit-Anstalt in Essen, Lindenallee (facade preserved and under monument protection)
• 1908–1910: Bank building of the deposit cash desk of Deutsche Bank AG in Berlin-Mitte, Französische Strasse, with a connecting bridge to the neighboring administration building (listed)

Employee

Until 1896, the architect Alfred Grenander worked as an employee in the architecture office of Wilhelm Martens.

literature

• Martens, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 150-151 .
• Uwe Kieling: Builders and Buildings. From Gothic to Historicism. Berlin / Leipzig 1987, p. 109, p. 112.
• Heinz Sarkowski , Heinz Götze: The Springer publishing house. Stations in its history. Volume 1. Springer, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-540-55221-9 , p. 136 ( books.google.de “The Springer logo in its first version from 1881 [...] It was executed by the architect Wilhelm Martens, a friend of the Springer family, who also directed the above-mentioned renovations of the publishing house on Monbijouplatz ”).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death register StA Grunewald, No. 2/1910.
2. ↑ Marriage register StA Berlin III, No. 183/1876.
3. ↑ ^{a b} cf. List of important buildings in Bremen
4. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
5. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
6. ↑ Notes on the history of the SJ Arnheim safe factory at www.antiktresore.de ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed January 22, 2011. 
7. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
8. ↑ Photo series on the apartment building of the Arnhem safe factory at www.kudaba.de , accessed on November 16, 2012.
9. ^ The commercial building of the mortgage bank in Hamburg zu Hamburg . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung. Vol. 34, 1900, No. 20, urn : nbn: de: kobv: co1-opus-20823 , pp. 121–123.
10. ↑ Krystyna Kirschke: Fasady wrocławskich obiektów komercyjnych z lat 1890-1930: Struktura, kolorystyka, Dekoracja. Wrocław: Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wrocławskiej, 2005. ISBN 83-7085-918-6 .
11. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
12. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
13. ↑ Heiko Schützler: A masterful modernist. The architect Alfred Grenander (1863–1931). In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 7, 2001, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 103 ( luise-berlin.de ).