Wilhelm Rave

Wilhelm Rave (born September 9, 1886 in Nieheim , † July 20, 1958 in Münster ) was a German architect and monument conservator .

Career

He completed his architecture studies in Munich and Berlin in 1912 with a diploma at the Technical University of Berlin . After serving in the war and as a prisoner of war, he completed his exams as a government architect in Berlin in 1919. He then worked for a short time at the Prussian Building Department in Siegen. In 1922 he applied for his release from civil service to work as a freelance architect. Among other things, he built the administration building of the steelworks in Brandenburg an der Havel in 1925/26. From 1928 he worked at the monuments office of the provincial administration in Münster and received his doctorate in 1929 at the TH Berlin. In 1931, until his retirement in 1952, he succeeded Johannes Körner as Westphalian provincial curator. His term of office was initially shaped by the global economic crisis of the early 1930s, then by the “ Third Reich ” and the destruction of the war, and finally by the rescue of war ruins. Also in 1931 he was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia .

The Berlin art historian Paul Ortwin Rave (1893–1962) was his younger brother, the architect Ortwin Rave (1921–1992) his son.

Fonts (selection)

• The axis in architecture . Diss. Berlin 1929. Aschendorff, Münster 1929.
• The Westphalian town house , Volume 1: The classic house. Ruhfus, Dortmund 1930.
• Sint Servaas to Maastricht and the question of the Westworks . In: Westfalen 22, 1937, pp. 49-75.
• New conversations about architecture. Regensberg, Münster 1948.
• Westphalian art sites in decline and reconstruction. Aschendorff, Münster 1951.
• Westphalian architecture. Coppenrath, Münster 1953.
• District of Borken (= The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia Volume 46). Aschendorff, Münster 1954.
• The domical vault . In: Deutsche Kunst und Denkmalpflege 13, 1955, pp. 33–43.
• Corvey. Aschendorff, Münster 1958.

literature

• Theodor Rensing : Wilhelm Rave died . In: Deutsche Kunst und Denkmalpflege 25, 1958, pp. 151–152.
• Karl Zuhorn : Wilhelm Rave in memory . In: Westfalen 36, 1958, pp. 1-2.
• Hermann Busen : 75 years of monument preservation in Westphalia . In: Westfalen 46, 1968, pp. 3-27.

Web links

• Biographical information on the website of the Historical Commission for Westphalia
• Literature by and about Wilhelm Rave in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung 42, 1922, p. 317.
2. ^ Hermann Seeger: Office buildings of the private economy (= handbook of architecture part 4, half volume 7, booklet 1a). 3rd edition Gebhard, Leipzig 1933, p. 47.