Otto Gühlk

Otto Gühlk (born June 1, 1892 in Hamburg ; † February 25, 1978 there ) was a German architect .

Gravestone in the
Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf

After completing his apprenticeship as a carpenter, Gühlk attended the building trade school in Hamburg from 1909 to 1911 . After being banned from practicing his profession in the Third Reich, he worked as a freelance architect and, after the Second World War, played a major role in the reconstruction of war-torn Hamburg. Until 1952 he worked freelance with Hans Atmer . Jürgen Marlow was his employee from 1950 to 1952 . Gühlk sat on the building deputation for the SPD and was the first president of the Hamburg Chamber of Architects . He played a major role in the (re) establishment of the Association of German Architects (BDA) after the Second World War and was a member of its executive committee for many years.

His best-known projects include the garden town of Farmsen , which he realized in 1953/1954 together with Hans Bernhard Reichow for the then union-owned Neue Heimat , and the Küperkoppel estate in Hamburg-Wandsbek.

His sister was the politician Paula Westendorf .

literature

Ralf Lange: Hamburg. Reconstruction and re-planning 1943–1963. Langewiesche publishing house, Königstein im Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-4610-2 . (including a short biography)

Web links

Otto Gühlk - a man from the very beginning is dead. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , No. 49 of February 27, 1978, p. 3.
Mention of Gühlk in the representation of selected historic buildings in Hamburg

Individual evidence

↑ Peter Krieger: "Economic miracle reconstruction competition". Architecture and urban development in Hamburg in the 1950s. Dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1995, p. 182 ff. (On the garden city of Hamburg-Farmsen and the Küperkoppel settlement) ( Chapter XI = p. 171–205 online as a PDF document with 125 kB)

personal data
SURNAME	Gühlk, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	June 1, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	February 25, 1978
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Peter Krieger: "Economic miracle reconstruction competition". Architecture and urban development in Hamburg in the 1950s. Dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1995, p. 182 ff. (On the garden city of Hamburg-Farmsen and the Küperkoppel settlement) ( Chapter XI = p. 171–205 online as a PDF document with 125 kB)