Wilhelm Walther (architect)

Julius Wilhelm Walther (born March 25, 1857 in Cologne , † February 6, 1917 in Berlin by suicide ) was a German architect . He is considered a major exponent of eclecticism .

Life

Walther was born in Cologne as the son of the couple, born in Prüm , civil engineer and later factory director Wilhelm Heinrich Walther and Augusta Alwina te Kloot . In 1872, Wilhelm Heinrich Walther founded the steam boiler factory Walther & Cie. Together with the businessman Bernhard Harperath, a son of the former Cologne city architect Wilhelm Harperath . in Kalk , later Cologne-Dellbrück .

After attending the municipal grammar school and secondary school in Kreuzgasse , which Walther left at Easter 1876 after passing his school- leaving examination , he probably completed his construction year with the colleague and successor of Wilhelm Harperath as Cologne city architect, Julius Carl Raschdorff . He then moved to the Technical University in Berlin-Charlottenburg , where Raschdorff also taught from 1878 and Walther became his student. In 1879 he went on a study trip to Italy, during which he also visited Rome. In December 1880 he also passed the building foreman examination for building construction in Berlin, for which he drafted a hunting lodge . Walther passed the second state examination in November 1885 and was subsequently appointed Royal Government Builder.

Wilhelm Walther, who remained unmarried, was one of the busy Berlin architects of the Wilhelminian era . In addition to his designs for Berlin insurance palaces, industrial buildings and rental villas, he also emerged in the Grunewald construction business. Shortly before the First World War , he began building his “gigantic” private villa on Koenigsallee in Grunewald, a “lesson in his architectural concept”.

Awards

• 1908 Red Cross Medal  III. class
• 1909 award of the character as Royal Baurat
• 1910 Royal crown for the Order of the Red Eagle,  IV class
• 1915 Iron Cross  2nd class

Buildings and designs

Construction year	place	address	image	object	measure	Remarks
1889-1890	Berlin	Unter den Linden 69		Residential and commercial building Dr. phil. G. A. friend	New building	Italian early renaissance
1890	Berlin	Hasenheide 22-31		Hall of the Berliner Union brewery	New building
1891-1892	Berlin-Grunewald	Wissmanstrasse 11 a		Villa Wilhelm Walther	New building	Monument protection
1892-1896	Berlin-Grunewald	Georg-Wilhelm-Strasse 7-11		Landhaus Dr. G. A. friend	New building	Castle-like complex on a large scale
1893-1894	Berlin Tiergarten	Rauchstrasse 22		Residential house banker paddock	New building
1893-1894	Berlin-Wilmersdorf	Durlacher Strasse 14		Altelierhaus Bieber	New building
1893-1913	Berlin-Kreuzberg	Lindenstrasse 20-25		Victoria Insurance Administration Building	New building	1987 u. a. Senator for Urban Development and Environmental Protection
1894	Berlin-Grunewald	Hubertusallee 13-15		Villa Holmgren	New building
1895	Berlin-Grunewald	Wernerstraße 10/12		Villa Kemmann	New building	Monument protection; French country house architecture (neo-baroque)
1895-1896	Berlin	Friedrichstrasse		“Zum Heidelberger” restaurant in the Central-Hôtel at Friedrichstrasse station	expansion
1896 (before)	Berlin-Grunewald	Kunz-Buntschuh-Strasse 6		Country house	New building
1896 (before)	Berlin	(next to) the Bellevue tram station		Cafe gardener	New building	Hall
1896-1897	Berlin-Grunewald	Wissmanstrasse 21, 22 / Winkler Strasse 1		Rental villas	New building	Monument protection
1898	Berlin-Lichtenrade	Steinstrasse 37-41		Malting building	New building	Monument protection
1900-1901	Berlin-Wilmersdorf	Bundesallee / Prinzregenstrasse 15–17		Villa Tietz	New building	tore off
1902-1903	Berlin-Grunewald	Trabener Straße 21/23 and 25		Rental villa ensemble	New building	Monument protection
1903-1904	Berlin Tiergarten	Potsdamer Strasse 10-11		House of Old Bavaria	New building	later department store W. Wertheim; destroyed by the war
1903-1904	Berlin Tiergarten	originally: Potsdamer Strasse 10–11	more pictures	St. George's Fountain	New building	moved to Hindemithplatz after World War II
1906	Berlin	Ehrenbergstrasse 19–23 / Naglerstrasse 48 / Rotherstrasse 20–23		Factory building	New building
1912 ff.	Berlin-Grunewald	Koenigsallee 20 / 20a / Delbrückstrasse 2	more pictures	Villa Wilhelm Walther	New building	Monument protection; Romanian Cultural Institute Titu Maiorescu
1917 (before)	Berlin	Am Karlsbad 23 / Schöneberger Ufer 13		Wohlfahrt GmbH office building	New building	The building was built for use by the Central Committee of the Red Cross.

literature

• Walther, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 133 .
• Berlin and its buildings . 3 volumes, Berlin 1896. (as facsimile : Verlag Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-433-02279-8 .)
• Walther, Wilhelm. In: Wolfgang Ribbe , Wolfgang Schächen (Ed.): Baumeister. Architects. Urban planner. Biographies on the structural development of Berlin. Stapp Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-87776-210-7 , p. 662.
• Werner Hildebrandt, Peter Lemburg, Jörg Wewel (arrangement): Wilmersdorf district, Grunewald district. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Berlin. ) 1st edition, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung Beuermann, Berlin 1993. 2nd edition, 1994, ISBN 3-87584-342-8 .

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Walther (architect)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Designs and projects by Wilhelm Walther in the holdings of the Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, regional court district Cologne, registry office Cologne, births, 1857, 1857 Volume 2, 482.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Walther, Wilhelm. In: Wolfgang Ribbe, Wolfgang Schächen (Ed.): Baumeister. Architects. Urban planner. Biographies on the structural development of Berlin. Historical Commission of Berlin 1987, p. 662.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Werner Hildebrandt, Peter Lemburg, Jörg Wewel (arrangement): Wilmersdorf district, Grunewald district.
4. ^ Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, regional court district Cologne, registry office Cologne, Heiraten, 1856, volume 1, p. 344.
5. ^ Municipal grammar school and secondary school in Kreuzgasse 1828–1928. Festschrift for the institution's centenary. October 13-15, 1928, Cologne 1928, p. 172, no. 412.
6. ^ Palazzo della Cancelleria, Rome (1879). Retrieved August 6, 2013.
7. ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 14, 1880, No. 98 (December 8, 1880), p. 530.
8. ↑ Jagdschloss (1879) . Retrieved August 6, 2013.
9. ^ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung . 5th year 1885, No. 48 from November 28, 1885, p. 485.
10. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 28, 1908, No. 99 (from December 12, 1908), p. 657.
11. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 30, 1910, No. 31 (from April 16, 1910), p. 209.
12. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 35th year 1915, No. 65 (from August 14, 1915), p. 425.
13. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Berlin and its buildings. Berlin 1896.
14. ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 27, 1893, No. 36 (from May 6, 1893), p. 221 222.
15. ^ Villa Holmgreen, Berlin-Grunewald. (from: Hermann Rückwardt, New Villas in the Berlin Area). Retrieved August 6, 2013.
16. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 21, 1901, No. 77 (from September 28, 1901), p. 471 f.
17. ^ Uwe Kieling: Berlin. Buildings and builders. Von der Gotik bis 1945. Berlin Edition, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8148-0095-8 , p. 160. (Kieling erroneously names Wilhelm Walter as the architect .)
18. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , Volume 2/3, Berlin 1917, p. 81 f.