Paul-Georg Custodis (born 13 January 1940) is a German architect and
historic preservation
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ist.
Career
Custodis, Great-great-great-nephew of the royal court architect , was born in
Hanover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...
during World War II.
Die Loreley: ein Fels im Rhein, ein deutscher Traum
'' Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2004, , 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
The Technische Universität Darmstadt (official English name Technical University of Darmstadt, sometimes also referred to as Darmstadt University of Technology), commonly known as TU Darmstadt, is a research university in the city of Darmstadt ...
. Subsequently, he trained for the higher civil engineering administrative service of the federal state of
Nordrhein-Westfalen
North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhab ...
.
Buchankündigung zu „Vom Backen, Brauen, Keltern und Gerben“
'' Nünnerich-Asmus Verlag, 2017, .
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
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, 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
Bendorf () is a town in the district of Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the right bank of the Rhine, approx. north of Koblenz.
Structure of the town
The town consists of the following districts:
*Bendorf
*Sayn
*Mülhofen
*St ...
, for over 10 years.
From the motorway bridge to the brickworks
'' Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg. 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.
Publications
* 1975: ''Bad Ems''.
* 1975: ''Der Bildhauer .''
* 1980: ''Nassau an der Lahn''
* 1982: ''Mainz im Wandel: 1850–1900''.
* 1984: ''Koblenz und der Mittelrhein''
* 1985: ''Die Stadt des 19. Jahrhunderts in Rheinland-Pfalz''
* 1990: ''Technische Denkmäler in Rheinland-Pfalz''
* 1996: ''Burg Namedy in Andernach''.
* 1998: ''Zeugnisse aus Industrie und Technik''.
* 2000: ''Notizen zu . Architekt in Düsseldorf''
* 2008: ''Apollinariskirche in Remagen''
* 2008: ''Pfaffen-Schwabenheim''
* 2011: ''Die Sayner Hütte''.
* 2014: ''Von der Autobahnbrücke bis zur Ziegelei: Zeugnisse aus Technik und Wirtschaft in Rheinland-Pfalz''.
[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, .
*2017: ''Vom Backen, Brauen, Keltern und Gerben: Zeugnisse der Herstellung von Nahrungs- und Genussmitteln sowie Bekleidung in Rheinland-Pfalz''.
References
External links
*
Custodis, Paul-Georg / 1940-on Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank
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German art historians
Historical preservationists
20th-century German architects
1940 births
Living people
Architects from Hanover
RWTH Aachen University alumni
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni