Johannes Radke (7 August 1853 – 1938) was a German architect, building official and councilor in Düsseldorf.

Life

Born in

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, Radke, son of the Lutheran preacher Johann Friedrich Daniel Lebrecht Radke (1841-1874), completed his schooling in 1874 at the Royal Grammar School in

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with the desire to study construction. After his studies, he worked in Berlin in the building administration of the Kaiserliche Reichspost as "Kaiserlicher Postbauinspektor" (Imperial Postal Building Inspector), before being appointed city building inspector in Düsseldorf in 1900. Between 1901 and 1921, he was also municipal alderman there. In these functions, he influenced the construction of the Hafen auf der Lausward and numerous other projects, such as the , the development of the Oberkassel district in the course of the Elektrifizierung der Düsseldorfer Straßenbahnen () and the 1902 . He designed numerous public buildings for Düsseldorf. The most important of these are numerous buildings of the Klinikumkomplex an der Moorenstraße, the

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, the and the Görres-Gymnasium. The old including the from 1900 to 1902, of which the bank protection wall, parapets, stairs, banisters, an altan and the water level clock are still preserved today, also goes back to Radke. Radke had already gained international attention before his time in Düsseldorf through the construction of the German exhibition pavilions for the World Exposition in Chicago in 1893 ( World's Columbian Exposition) and the Paris Exposition Universelle. Radke was a member of the .

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* 1893: German exhibition pavilion at the World's Columbian Exposition * 1900: German exhibition pavilion at the

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* 1900: Rheinuferpromenade in Düsseldorf-Altstadt ** among others 1902: Düsselschlösschen, Weinlokal at Burgplatz * 1904–1906: verschiedene Bauten des

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** among others 1906: Holy Spirit Chapel (Church of the Düsseldorf University Hospital). * 1904–1906: Görres-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte. * 1904–1906: Leibniz-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort * 1904–1907: Luisen-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte. * 1905: Friedhofskapelle auf dem Südfriedhof in Düsseldorf-Bilk. * 1905–1906:

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Berufskolleg in Düsseldorf-Unterbilk. * 1905–1907: Primary school at Badeanstalt Lindenstraße 128–130. * 1906–1908:

, Administration building of the in Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte. * 1907: Realschule Luisenstraße in Düsseldorf-Friedrichstadt. * 1907–1911: Hauptfeuerwehrdepot (Feuerwache III) in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort * 1908: Friedhofskapelle at the in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk. * 1908–1910: Villa Wendelstadt in Bad Godesberg (Bauausführung durch Theo Westbrook) * 1910–1912: Schule am Comeniusplatz (Comenius-Gymnasium, Comeniusstraße 1), Düsseldorf-Oberkassel. * 1911–1912: Lessing-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk. * 1913–1914: Hauptschule Bernburger Straße in Düsseldorf-Eller.Hauptschule, Bernburger Straße 44
/ref> * 1927–1928: eigenes Wohnhaus (als Ruhesitz), called 'Haus zur Linde', Bondorfer Straße in Bad Honnef

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* ''Beschreibung des Schulgebäudes.'' Bagel, Düsseldorf 1904. ()

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