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Ludwigshafen, 10.4.2011


Bernhard August Wilhelm Werdelmann, Generation 10, Ref.Nr. 10bk2800 (BK2800) Branch W UEL (Great-grandchildren)

Born: 20.3.1865 in Leopoldshöhe, Principality of Lippe (Germany)
Died: 24.4.1919 in Wuppertal-Barmen (Germany) (Age: 54 years)

Occupation: Government master builder, professor, architect (and architect teacher)

Father: Bernhard Werdelmann
Mother: Maria Stockmeyer





Biography Wilhelm Werdelmann

• Grammar school Leopoldinum in Detmold
• 1885-1886 Technical High School Dresden
• 1886-1889 Technical High School Charlottenburg
• 1890 1st State examination as senior government master builder
• 1890-1895 Employed as "deputy architect" at the new construction of the court building in Leipzig under Ludwig Hoffmann
• 1894 2nd State examination as senior government master builder (appointment on 24.2.1894)
• 1894 Contest winner for the building of the covered bath in Breslau (Wroclaw)
• 1895-1897 Construction of the covered bath in Breslau under his direction
• 1897-1899 Free-lance qccupation in Breslau
• 1899 (-1919) Director of the craftsman and artisans school in Barmen
• Member of the Deutsches Werkbund (DWB)

Buildings:
• 1895 - 1897: City covered bath (Laznia Miejska) in Breslau (Wroclaw),
   Zwingerstraße 10 (ulica Teatralna) (preserved with changes)
• 1898: Palais Wiskott (for trader Th. Wiskott) in Breslau, Am Stadtgraben (ulica Podwale)
• vor 1900?: "Militärkurhaus" in Bad Landeck (Lower Silesia) (Ladek-Zdrój)
• 1907 - 1909: People's bath in Jena
• 1909 - 1911: Evangelcal Luther Church with vicarage and parish hall in (Wuppertal-) Barmen-Heckinghausen
• 1913 - 1914: Evangelical-Lutheram Erlöserkirche in (Wuppertal-) Barmen-Sedansberg, Stahlstraße 9

Literature:
• 100 Jahre Werkkunstschule Wuppertal 1994; (German)
• Meyer-Karweg, Ruth: Architekten, Bauingenieure, Baumeister, Bauträger und ihre Bauten in Wuppertal. Wuppertal, Sprockhövel 2003. (with portrait) (German);



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