Carl Ludwig Wimmel

Carl Ludwig Wimmel (23 January 1786 – 16 February 1845) was a German architect and Hamburg's first building director.

Early on he came into contact with architects and sculptors such as Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Christian Daniel Rauch and Johann Gottfried Schadow.

In 1816 he joined the civil service and realised numerous public buildings, which still characterise the cityscape today.

He married Johanna Juliana Sophie Frercks, the daughter of a Hamburg notary.

Many of his buildings fell victim to the Great Fire of 1842, were demolished, or destroyed in the Second World War.

Carl Ludwig Wimmel (1830)
St. Georg Hospital (around 1900). In the foreground the bright buildings by Wimmel can be seen. The rear buildings are by Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann .
Collective tombstone "architects" on the Ohlsdorf Cemetery