Reinhard Baumeister
Reinhard Baumeister ( born March 19, 1833 in Hamburg, † February 11, 1917 in Karlsruhe ) was a German architect, urban planner and professor.
Life
Reinhard Baumeister was born in 1833 in Hamburg, the son of the lawyer and later Supreme Court and citizenship President Hermann Baumeister and his wife Wilhelmine born Woltmann; he was thus a grandson of water building director Reinhard Woltmann. Baumeister first studied in 1849 at the Polytechnic of Hanover and in 1851 at the Polytechnic School of Karlsruhe Civil Engineering; in Karlsruhe Jakob Friedrich Eisenlohr was his most important teacher whose daughter he later married Anna. 1855 laid builder successfully the Baden state examination for engineers.
Reinhard Baumeister was then in Baden civil service in a wide variety of construction projects, practical work, until he was appointed in 1862 as full professor at the Polytechnic Institute in Karlsruhe, where he taught the students the basics of water, road and railway construction. Also in the field of bridge he taught, where he placed great value on a high quality architectural design. Over time, he also turned to the urban planning. In the winter semester 1874/1875 he held the first urban special lecture urban expansion. He is after the publication of his work, urban expansion in technical, economic and police regard to 1876 as the founder of scientific urban planning in Germany and a leading theorist of urban planning in the late 19th century. Builder has introduced economic aspects in urban planning and emphasized the importance of green and open spaces in the ever more growing cities. In 1871, he suggested a Reich Law for the Construction Industry. The architect was a co-founder of the Association of German Architects and Engineers ( 1871) and the Association of Public Health ( 1873).
His major works include the Master Plan for the city of Heilbronn, Württemberg from 1873, which was exhibited at the General Assembly of the Association of German Architects was founded by architects and engineering teams eV in Berlin in 1874 public and should have also found international attention. The plan made from the - from 1840 through the construction of four suburbs around the historic settlement core - strong grown city with the planned encirclement by a generously sized ring road again a coherent whole. He got the T-shaped ending Kramstraße - the ancient entrance road into the city center - through an eastern breakthrough for continuous and traffic- friendly main streets and created by three acutely tapering to the station 's main streets, had to be created for the two other Neckar bridges, one for all quarters good access to the nearby train station in a suburb.
In 1912, the former street is named after builder 43 in the then independent town of Berlin- Schöneberg ( from 1920 District and since 2001 the district of Berlin). In Karlsruhe is also a street named after him. His caricature portrait is to be found as gargoyles at the local Stephanie fountain.
Works
- Urban expansion in technical, baupolizeilicher and wirthschaftlicher relationship. Berlin 1876
- The technical colleges. Habel, Berlin 1886 ( digitized output of the University and State Library Dusseldorf )
- Building code and housing problem, in: Brix, Genzmer (ed.): Urban lectures from the Institute for Town. Volume IV, Issue 3, Berlin 1910
- Welfare and Special benefits in urban design; in: Brix, Genzmer (ed.): Urban lectures from the Institute for Town. Volume VIII, Issue 4, Berlin 1918