Georg Thür

Georg Thür, complete name Carl Georg Thür, (5 October 1846 – 10 August 1924) was a German architect and Prussian official builder whose designs for university buildings had a decisive influence on the Prussian university landscape.

[2] It took him via Prague and Vienna to Munich, where he enrolled for a short time - from 26 October to December 1833 - in the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München to study architecture.

After passing his examination as a builder in 1869, he was practically employed by Richard Lucae, Hermann von der Hude and Heinrich Strack in Berlin, Hamburg, Bonn and Frankfurt.

Finally, he was able to bring his career to a first high point with the study trip to Italy from 1874 to 1876, which was obligatory for architects at that time.

The Prussian Ministry of Culture, i.e. ultimately the Emperor, initially rejected the idea of founding an academy so far away from Rome - Villa Falconieri in Frascati.

[11] In 1884, Thür was called up to the Ministerium für öffentliche Arbeiten [de], initially as an "auxiliary worker" in the building department.

From 1899 onwards he was a member of the Prussian Academy of Civil Engineering; in 1904 he was Wirklicher Geheimer Oberbaurat; in 1905 he was awarded an honorary doctorateby the Technical University of Gdansk as Dr.-Ing.

E.h.[13] In his position as Baurat and later as Wirklicher Geheimer Oberbaurat and finally as Vortragender Rat in the structural engineering department of the ministry, Georg Thür supervised and designed 34 projects and buildings in Aachen, Berlin, Bonn, Breslau, Göttingen, Greifswald, Halle an der Saale, Hanover, Kiel, Marburg an der Lahn, Stettin, almost all university buildings.