Carl Christoph Loercher

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Carl Lörcher (* 1884 in Stammheim near Stuttgart ; † 1966 in Stuttgart ) was a German architect , urban planner and university professor .

In the second half of the 1920s Lörcher was active in Turkey and the Balkans . In 1927–1929, for example, he developed the first development plan for Ankara . Lörcher, who had already joined the NSDAP and the SA in 1931 , became head of the Reich Office for Spatial Planning for the regeneration of German peasantry at the Reich Ministry of Food after the National Socialists ' seizure of power . From 1933 he was professor for construction and settlement at the State Art School in Berlin (from 1936 State University for Art Education ) and became President of the Association of German Architects . In addition, from June 1933 he headed the German Werkbund, which he liquidated in 1934 . In 1933 Lörcher suggested that the German Werkbund should only have farmhouses built in the future.

In August 1934, Lörcher was one of the signatories of the call by cultural workers for a " referendum " on the unification of the Reich President and Reich Chancellery in the person of Adolf Hitler . Artistically, he appealed to a new reflection on traditional expressions of German peasantry.

In the Kampfbund Deutscher Architekten und Ingenieure , which represented Gottfried Feder's ideological direction within National Socialism, Lörcher was responsible for the area of settlement , ie urban and regional planning.

buildings

Mühlhausen Lion by Max Kruse

literature

  • Barbara Miller Lane: Architecture and Politics in Germany 1918–1945. (= Writings of the German Architecture Museum on the history of architecture and architectural theory ) Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1986, ISBN 3-528-08707-2 , p. 166 f.
  • Levent Uluis: One- party regime and urban development: The emergence of the new capital of Kemalist Turkey (1923-1938) . Dissertation at the Technical University of Berlin, 2015, University Press of the TU Berlin .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Traces of a capital. German speaking architects in Ankara. Goethe-Institut Ankara 2010
  2. ^ Dieter Münk: The organization of space in National Socialism. A sociological investigation of ideologically based models in architecture, town planning and spatial planning of the Third Reich. Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-89144-175-4 , p. 403 f.
  3. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 375.
  4. ↑ Register of persons "Exhibition management, city administration, politicians" , part of the website "The Exhibition of Creator People" by Stefanie Schaefers, last accessed on July 17, 2019
  5. ↑ Conference of the German Werkbund in Würzburg. In: Stuttgarter Neues Tagblatt of October 3, 1933
  6. ↑ Mühlhäuser Löwe at www.muehlhausen.de , last accessed on July 17, 2019
  7. ↑ Hans C. Goedeking (Ed.): Architecture in Wuppertal. Müller and Busmann, Wuppertal 1993, ISBN 3-928766-06-6 , p. 241.
  8. ↑ Evangelisches Waldkrankenhaus Spandau (ed.), Helmut Bräutigam: Workers' city "Great Hall". To the unknown story on the grounds of the Evangelical Forest Hospital Spandau. Berlin-Spandau 1997, p. 7.
  9. ↑ Jürgen Tietz: Forced Laborers in Spandau - Two monuments of the Third Reich are threatened with destruction in Der Tagesspiegel of December 22, 1999, last accessed on April 9, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Loercher, Carl Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loercher, Carl; Lörcher Christoph; Lörcher, Carl Christian (in error)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, urban planner and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Stammheim near Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH 1966
Place of death Stuttgart