Paul-Georg Custodis

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. The war years and the post-war period overshadowed his childhood. He comes from a Cologne family.

Custodis was head of the planning department of the city of Brühl (Rheinland) from 1969 to 1973. 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. 2017: Vom Backen, Brauen, Keltern und Gerben: Zeugnisse der Herstellung von Nahrungs- und Genussmitteln sowie Bekleidung in Rheinland-Pfalz.