Wilhelm Stricker (master builder)

Wilhelm Stricker (born November 2, 1874 in Berge ; † August 21, 1927 in Aplerbeck ) was a German builder , architect and municipal building officer in Hamm, Haan and Aplerbeck, who also worked as an entrepreneur in the building materials industry. Before the First World War, in particular, he played a sustained role in developing the infrastructure in his service area. Several of the public buildings built according to Stricker's designs and under his construction management are listed .

Life

1874 to 1902

Born as the son of the master turner and farmer Friedrich Stricker in what is now a district of Hamm in Westphalia, Wilhelm Stricker attended the community school in Hamm from 1885 to 1889 after completing elementary school in Berge . He also received private lessons from a local high school teacher in the subjects of planimetry and algebra . After two years of practical work with a larger construction company , he began a three-year training course as a draftsman in September 1891 . This was followed by his military service, which he performed from October 1894 to September 1896 with a Berlin railway regiment, and afterwards he completed a four-semester degree at the building trade and civil engineering school of the technical center in Hildburghausen , founded in 1876 . Break works in 1897 and 1898 in the office of the architect Dietrich Vogt in Hamm , who entrusted him with the preparation of draft and the preparation of cost calculations and other works, including the management of the reconstruction work on the synagogue in Werl , including Vogt presented the finally approved and executed drafts in July 1897.

Stricker left Hildburghausen after taking his final exam in March 1899 (grade "passed quite well") as a building trade master . In the same month, the city of Hamm introduced him as foreman for the construction and civil engineering one. Before he moved to Haan as municipal builder on March 1, 1902 , Stricker was not only involved in the relevant civil engineering projects such as the construction of sidewalks or a sewerage system, but also in the renovation of the town hall and the slaughterhouse and the construction of a school. In addition, as in his future posts, he was entrusted with the construction control of private building projects and worked part-time as a drawing teacher at the “Commercial Training School” in Hamm for two and a half years .

1902 to 1921

In 1901 Wilhelm Stricker applied for the position of a municipal master builder in Haan near Düsseldorf. While the council elected him in December 1901, he took up his new office on March 1, 1902. His tasks there, as before in Hamm, encompassed all municipal structural and civil engineering works and in turn also included the area of ​​the building regulations office . His most important building, during his tenure in Haan, which only lasted until the end of 1903, was that of the new town hall. While it was still being completed, Stricker applied for the first advertised position of an official master builder in Aplerbeck. At that time, the Aplerbeck office as part of the Hörde district - apart from Aplerbeck itself - included in particular the locations of Berghofen , Holzwickede , Opherdicke and Schüren . After he was elected in the municipal council meeting on September 9, 1903, the responsible district committee appointed him on September 12, 1903, initially as an official builder for a year on a trial basis. He took his oath of service on January 2, 1904.

Until he left for health reasons on January 1, 1921, Stricker was responsible for various new school buildings, several mourning halls , the new building of the office building in Aplerbeck and the construction of the sewer system in the mayor's office (Aplerbeck: 1904 ff.). Under his responsibility, the RWE established the connection to the local power supply in 1906. The First World War broke out during the ongoing construction work on the new office building, which today houses the Aplerbeck district administration . As a reservist , Stricker received the draft notice in February 1915 . His area of ​​activity was in the area of Russian Poland , where he was involved in road and path work for the military. In the month of the end of the war, November 1918, Wilhelm Stricker returned to Aplerbeck. Under the impression of the economic downturn as a result of the war, which also affected the financial structure of the communities and his own health problems, he left office at the end of 1920.

1921 to 1927

Wilhelm Stricker had already founded Basaltwerke Hamm GmbH before the First World War . At the company to provide a basalt - quarry in the Westerwald maintained, the circular independent cities were Bochum , Dortmund and Hamm, and the district of Unna involved. In this way they secured their need for stones to pave their road network. Through his war effort Stricker was in turn connected to the one in Jawor established Co. Silesian granite Werke AG Wilhelm Kramer & kicked. He initially acquired shares and was later elected to the supervisory board. One of the main buyers of the Silesian company was the Deutsche Reichsbahn (gravel), whereby the approval of Basalt Union AG in Bonn was used to process this contract , and Stricker was named as its spokesman for the board. Finally he founded the still existing company Stricker & Co. in 1922/1923 together with W. Schornagel , which initially only traded in the quarries from the quarries in Silesia and the Westerwald, later the Basaltwerke Hamm GmbH in its entirety Parts of the Schlesische Granitwerke AG took over and still exists as a pure family company under the current umbrella of Stricker Holding GmbH & Co. KG and now with several subsidiaries. In 2013, management was in the hands of the generation of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Wilhelm Stricker. The company's headquarters have remained in Aplerbeck since it was founded.

family

From his marriage to Luise Böckmann , whom Stricker married in Hamm on October 10, 1899, the daughters Emilie and Irmgard, as well as the first-born son Wilhelm, emerged. The Protestant Wilhelm Stricker belonged to the Evangelical Church Community in Aplerbeck as a presbyter for over 17 years until his death . His grave is located in the municipal cemetery on Köln-Berliner-Straße, whose mourning hall was restored in 2012 and 2013 with financial support from his descendants and the company he founded. A street in Aplerbeck was named after him in his honor. Strickerstraße connects Wittbräucker Straße with Köln-Berliner-Straße in an arch.

plant

Construction year	city	District	address	image	object	measure	Remarks
1897	Werl		Synagogue Square location		synagogue	modification	Construction management by Stricker for the architect Dietrich Vogt in Hamm; Destroyed in 1938 during the November pogroms
1902-1903	Haan		Kaiserstraße 85 location		town hall	New building	Monument protection since July 28, 1982 (A 16)
1905-1907	Dortmund	Aplerbeck	Köln-Berliner-Strasse 86 location Commons : Friedhofskapelle Aplerbeck-Mitte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files		Chapel (funeral hall)	New building	Aplerbeck municipal cemetery ; Monument protection (A 0157); 2012/13 redevelopment for 210,000 EUR with the support of the descendants of Wilhelm Stricker; now the seat of the Aplerbeck history association.
1906-1907	Dortmund	Aplerbeck	Aplerbecker Marktplatz 21 location		Office building	New building	Monument protection (A 0424)
1913	Dortmund	Stir up	Schürener Strasse 24 b location		Parish hall	New building	Parish hall of the evgl. Parish Schüren. The client was the “Association of Friends and Supporters of the Construction of a Protestant Community House in Schüren”; In 1922 it was converted into a church building.
1914-1915	Dortmund	Aplerbeck	Köln-Berliner-Strasse 31 location		Savings bank	New building	Design, cost accounting and construction management until spring 1915; Completion by building authority assistant Jungholt; today u. a. Library; Monument protection (A 0383)
	Holzwickede		Avenue 5 location		town hall	New building	Monument protection since May 18, 1983 (A 5)
	Dortmund	Stir up	Untere Pekingstrasse 24 location		Elementary school	New building	Goethe School today Gerhart Hauptmann Elementary School
	Dortmund	Berghofen	Busenbergstrasse 5 location		Elementary school	New building	Busenberg School
	Dortmund	Berghofen			Elementary school	New building	Schiller School; Canceled in 1966
	Dortmund	Aplerbeck	Schwerter Strasse 269 location		Elementary school	New building	Aplerbecker-Mark primary school
	Dortmund	Aplerbeck	Köln-Berliner-Strasse 72 location		Elementary school	New building	Expansion of the school and construction of a gym
	Holzwickede	Opherd thickness			Elementary school	New building
	Dortmund	Stir up	Schürener Strasse 24 a location		Mourning hall	New building

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Official Builder Wilhelm Stricker (PDF; 32 kB) Accessed on October 25, 2013.
2. ^ Elfi Pracht-Jörns : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part V: Arnsberg district. (= Contributions to the architectural and art monuments of Westphalia , Volume 1.3.) JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-7616-1449-7 , p. 586.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Stricker Holding - History. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Jörg Bauerfeld: Refurbished mourning hall is revived history.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Emsdettener Volkszeitung.de of April 9, 2013, retrieved on October 25, 2013.  
5. ↑ Stricker family supports the renovation of the cemetery chapel in Aplerbeck. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Evgl. Kirchengemeinde Schüren - To the story. Retrieved October 25, 2013.