Paul-Georg Custodis Explained

Paul-Georg Custodis (born 13 January 1940) is a German architect and historic preservationist.

Career

Custodis, Great-great-great-nephew of the royal court architect, was born in Hanover during World War II.[1] The war years and the post-war period overshadowed his childhood. He comes from a Cologne family. From 1959 to 1966, he studied architecture at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Subsequently, he trained for the higher civil engineering administrative service of the federal state of Nordrhein-Westfalen.[2]

Custodis was head of the planning department of the city of Brühl (Rheinland) from 1969 to 1973. He then held a number of posts at the General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate from 1973 until his retirement in 2005: research fellow, area officer and finally construction director. In addition, he was the cross-sectional officer for industrial monument conservation there from 1984 to 2005. In this context, he was responsible for the restoration of the, a former ironworks in Bendorf, for over 10 years.[3] Since 2010, he has been an honorary member of the Friends of the Sayner Hütte.

In 1979, he was awarded a doctorate in engineering from the RWTH Aachen University. The topic of his doctoral thesis was: Der Stadtbaumeister Eduard Kreyßig und die Bauentwicklung der Stadt Mainz in der 2nd Hälfte des 19 Jahrhunderts.

In the course of his life, Custodis was active as an author of scientific articles and reference books and as an amateur painter and draughtsman.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Die Loreley: ein Fels im Rhein, ein deutscher Traum. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2004,,
  2. Buchankündigung zu „Vom Backen, Brauen, Keltern und Gerben“, Nünnerich-Asmus Verlag, 2017, .
  3. From the motorway bridge to the brickworks, Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg.
  4. Dr. Georg Drenda: Bibliothek des Instituts für Geschichtliche Landeskunde – as of 28 September 2016 (PDF-Dokument), Institut für Geschichtliche Landeskunde an der Universität Mainz e.V., pp.42f
  5. Custodis, Paul-Georg: Bad Ems, Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz, 1975
  6. Custodis, Paul-Georg: Der Bildhauer Ferdinand Joseph Friedrich Custodis, , Jahrbuch des Zentral-Dombauvereins, edited by Willy Weyres and Herbert Rode, Cologne 1975
  7. Custodis, Paul-Georg: Mainz im Wandel: 1850–1900, Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag, 1982, .
  8. Paul-Georg Custodis und Jan Meißner: Burg Namedy in Andernach, Neusser Dr. und Verlag, 1996, .
  9. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49232533 Zeugnisse aus Industrie und Technik
  10. Custodis, Paul-Georg: Die Sayner Hütte, vol. 5, 2nd edition, October 2011, .
  11. Paul-Georg Custodis, Ulrike Weber und Maria Wenzel: Von der Autobahnbrücke bis zur Ziegelei: Zeugnisse aus Technik und Wirtschaft in Rheinland-Pfalz, Schnell und Steiner, 2014, .

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