Franz Heinrich Schwechten
Franz Schwechten ( born August 12, 1841 in Cologne, † August 11, 1924 in Berlin; Complete name: Franz Heinrich Schwechten ) was a German architect of historicism.
Life
Franz Schwechten was the first son of the judicial council Schwechten Heinrich and Justine Pauline was born, senor. He attended the ( Protestant ) Friedrich- Wilhelm-Gymnasium, where he underwent special promotion in art class by the Dombildhauer Christoph Stephan. After graduation in the spring of 1860 he entered in the fall as an apprentice in the studio of the later city architect Julius Raschdorff and then studied from 1861 at the Berlin Building Academy under Karl Boetticher, August Hermann Spielberg and Friedrich Adler and graduated in 1863 with the Bauführerexamen from. He made his two years' practical training in August Stiller and Martin Gropius. He then went back to Cologne to the studio of Otto Hermann plum before the second part of the study started in the winter semester 1867/68, which concluded with the architect exam. In 1869 Schwechten went forth with his design for a "parliament house for Prussia " as the winner of the Schinkel Prize Competition. This design he submitted for examination before de builder. With the prize money he completed his knowledge on a study trip to Italy from October 69 to June 70
Schwechten decided for now against a career as a construction officer, Mr and took off in 1871, the position of the chief architect of the Berlin- Anhalt Railway on. Franz Schwechten was appointed member of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin and began a teaching career in 1885 at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg. Until his appointment as Royal Building Officer in 1888, he designed and oversaw the construction of the Schultheiss brewery (now Berlin's cultural brewery in the beautiful Allee ), the Berlin Philharmonic in Bern Strasse 22/23 and the AEG appliances plant in Ackerstraße.
1889 Schwechten was appointed a member of the Academy of Civil Engineering. He designed and built from 1892 to 1894 the Neo-Gothic Apostel-Paulus -Kirche in Berlin- Schöneberg and the Tomb for Adolf Becker. Also built in 1897 AEG factory entrance at the fountain in Berlin- fresh spring, the so-called Beamtentor and built from 1899 to 1900 power plant Moabit at the Friedrich- Krause- Ufer in Berlin among its buildings. Its certainly most famous building is the 1891-1895 built -Romanesque Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin.
1902 took over Franz Schwechten leading a master class and was from 1915 to 1918 his knowledge and experience as president of the Prussian Academy of Arts on.
His term of my own design honorary tomb is located on the Old Protestant Cemetery of the old village church next to the 1962 -built New Paul -Gerhardt -Kirche in Schöneberg, main road 46, in box O, grave location 0-6-26.
Buildings
Fully or largely intact
Not receive or ruin
Designs
1884, the design competition for the building of the Berlin Museum Island was purchased.
Design drawings
Design for the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church - view from the west
Design for the commercial building industry building, Beuth, Berlin