Hermann Philipp Wilhelm von der Hude (2 June 1830,

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– 4 June 1908,

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) was a German architect, in the

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style.

Life and work

He came from a family of

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makers; established in Lübeck since the 17th century. After completing his secondary education at the Katharineum in 1849, he was apprenticed to

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. In 1850, he enrolled at the

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. While attending, he worked with Friedrich August Stüler on his plans for the Berliner Dom. When he studies were complete, he received temporary assignments, working on public structures, such as the , as well as managing the construction of residential buildings."Über Hermann von der Hude"
in: '' Königlich privilegierte Berlinische Zeitung'', 2 February 1902 In 1855, he took a study trip to Italy. When he returned, he passed the Master Builder examination (1857) and, that same year, won the , awarded by the , with a design for the new Berlin City Hall. This was followed by further trips, to England and France, and his appointment as "Royal Government Builder'. From 1860, he ran his own architectural office, in partnership with . By 1862, he had already resigned from the Civil Service, to devote all of his time to his private practice. He and Hennicke designed residential and commercial buildings, as well as hotels, notably the Kaiserhof (1874) and the , on Friedrichstraße. Their

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(1887), was the first new theatre built in Berlin since the 1860s. All three buildings were destroyed in

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. The company was dissolved in 1892, and Hennicke died not long after. On New Year's Eve of 1907, he suffered a stroke, from which he never recovered. He was interred at , in Berlin's

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district.

Work

Von der Hude's work includes: * Kunsthalle Hamburg, with Georg Theodor Schirrmacher, Hamburg, 1863–69 * reconstruction, Palais am Festungsgraben, with Georg Heinrich Bürde, Berlin, 1863–64 * Hotel Kaiserhof, with Julius Hennicke, Berlin, 1875 (destroyed 1945) * Hotel Central, with Hennicke, Berlin, 1880–81 (destroyed 1945) * reconstruction of the prayer hall at Neue Kirche, Berlin, with Hennicke, according to plans from

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, 1881–82 *

Gera Hauptbahnhof Gera Central Station
on the website of Thuringia Tourism. Retrieved 28 Feb 2014. () is the m ...

, with Hennicke, 1881 (disfigured circa 1960) * Davidsonska Palace, with Swedish architect Magnus Isæus, Stockholm, 1881 (destroyed 1942) *

, Berlin, with Hennicke, 1887–88 (destroyed 1945)American Architect and Architecture, May 12, 1894, Volume 44, page 59-60

References

External links

Obituary
in the ', 20 June 1908, pp.339/40
Entry on Von der Hude
@ Historismus {{DEFAULTSORT:Hude, Hermann von der 1830 births 1908 deaths Architects from Lübeck 19th-century German architects 20th-century German architects