Albert Patitz

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Albert Patitz (born May 24, 1906 in Dresden , † August 6, 1978 in Radebeul ; full name: Hermann Wilhelm Albert Patitz ) was a German architect .

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Early years

Parents-in-law residential / office building at Gabelsberger Strasse 1, Radebeul

Born in 1906, Patitz attended school in Dresden until 1920 and then began an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in Hermann Patitz's father's company. At the end of the year he changed the training company, in addition to its evening training, he attended the technical college for two and a half years during the day. From the winter semester 1922/1923 he attended the Sächsische Staatsbauschule, and from the following summer semester evening classes were added at the arts and crafts school. In April 1924 Patitz completed his journeyman's examination.

Secured by his journeyman's wages, he continued to attend the State Building School, which he graduated with a secondary school leaving certificate in 1926. As early as 1925 he had attended a special course in urban planning at the Technical University of Dresden , followed a year later by another on the subject of rural construction .

A fortnight after his state building school examination, Patitz had started to work as a construction technician in Alfred Tischer's architectural office . In November 1926 he moved to the office of Lossow & Kühne .

At the beginning of September 1930 Patitz moved from Dresden to Radebeul into the house of his future in-laws to his fiancée Erna Lämmel in the then Gabelsberger Straße 1 , where he later also ran his office (address from 1935: Straken 9 , from 1945: Eduard-Bilz Street 9 ).

In addition to his task of thorough planning of floor plans, Patitz had secretly drawn facade designs, which he presented to the owner Max Hans Kühne , although this was reserved for the office manager . He recognized Patitz's talent and from then on promoted him personally. Because of the economic crisis, Patitz had to be dismissed at the end of September 1930. In the following three years of unemployment he did several fee-based work, including for Schilling & Graebner , Fritz Rauda and Alfred Tischer. During this period, Patitz was accepted into the Association of German Architects (BDA) in 1932 thanks to two guarantors .

Also in 1932, Patitz, who had meanwhile also worked as a simple bricklayer, married his long-time fiancée Erna Lämmel. The wedding trellis was provided by members of the Young German Order , to which both had belonged since the mid-1920s.

Third Reich

Single family house Karl-May-Straße 8, Radebeul
Brockwitzer Strasse 2/4 housing estate, Radebeul

In August 1933, Patitz ended his unemployment by starting his own business . In the same year he completed several residential projects in Oberlößnitz , Gittersee , Langebrück , Liegau and Klotzsche .

With the dissolution of the Association of German Architects in 1933, Patitz became a member of the Reich Chamber of Culture as a representative of the architectural body.

In 1934 the new building of the apartment building for the sculptor Schuster in Wasastraße in Radebeul took place, with whose operation he was to remain connected until his death, mainly due to the longstanding production of gravestone designs and inscriptions for the sculptor .

Also in 1934, Patitz, who lacked “practical business acumen”, teamed up with Karl Lötzsch as a partner for business tasks ( Patitz & Lötzsch ). The collaboration lasted until September 1936, when Lötzsch separated from Patitz due to a long illness. However, this did not harm the further upswing of the Patitz office. By 1942, Patitz, one of the architects of homeland security architecture , had around 130 plans for residential buildings, settlements, factory buildings and interior fittings, but more and more of them remained in project status during the first years of the war and were no longer carried out.

In 1935, Patitz's first son Ulrich was born in "tolerably material security".

A major operation in 1939 prevented Patitz from being drafted into military service. Following Albert Speer's appeal in 1942 to German architects and engineers to make themselves available for a foreign assignment, Patitz volunteered for the Ukraine . Until shortly after the Battle of Stalingrad , he was responsible for rebuilding the works assigned to Dnepr-Holz GmbH in Kiev and Zaporozhye , and stayed mainly in Dnepropetrovsk . Numerous watercolors of the landscapes there have survived from this time . When the civilians withdrew, Patitz returned to Germany, where he was ordered to Leipzig from mid-1944 to early 1945 to repair war damage.

Post-war and GDR times

At the end of the Second World War , the residents of the Lämmel apartment building were evacuated , and what was originally planned for only two days became a two-month occupation of the house by Soviet troops. After the residents returned and the damage caused by vandalism had been repaired, Patitz tried to get his architectural office going again. As a result of his work for the city administration, he was also obliged to plan new housing for Soviet offices. From 1946 Patitz received recognition as a freelance artist , for example through membership in the State Chamber of Fine Arts of Saxony and the subsequent membership in the FDGB in the visual arts , combined with the corresponding authorization and purchase cards.

Also in 1946, Patitz's second son Lutz was born, who was to leave Radebeul in 1973 and became an architect and city planner in Frankfurt / Oder , following in his father's footsteps.

Probably from 1946, 1947 at the latest, Patitz worked for the Neubauer program , in 1947 he received confirmation as district architect for nine communities in the Pirna / Saxon Switzerland area , where he designed mostly smaller buildings in rural areas as a cultural worker. From this time on he formed a working group with his younger brother Rudolf, who lived in Pirna. Rudolf procured through relations with the pulp mill Heidenau the contract for the planning of the pulp mill Magdeburg-Rothensee . The working group worked as a subcontractor for the state project planning of Saxony and in the following period created plans for the Roßlau shipyard , buildings in Bernburg , the ski jump in Altenberg / Geising and for the Papstdorf pioneer camp .

At the beginning of 1951, the Radebeul office with around twelve employees became a kind of branch of VEB Industrieentwurf . On July 1, 1951, the office was taken over as VEB (Z) Projektierung - Design Office for Building Construction Dresden I, with the compulsion to move to Tannenstrasse in Dresden along with its own equipment. On October 1, 1951, Patitz received an individual contract, later he received parts of his own equipment back from the company. For the establishment of the sports school Neuländer Straße, Patitz was awarded for the first time as an activist of socialist work in October 1952 , in December of that year he was appointed brigade leader . This was followed by plans for the Wismut , residential, cultural and social buildings in Johanngeorgenstadt and the outpatient clinic in Aue , for which he was again recognized as an activist in 1953 .

As a part-time job, Patitz was involved in the design of the parade for the 600th anniversary of Radebeul in 1953 , followed by the free design of the logo for the Oberlößnitz school on the occasion of its 100th anniversary the following year.

A house in the complex Nürnberger Strasse 13–31 / 10–28, Dresden

From mid-1953 onwards, as part of a special construction program for mining workers, the plans for the Dresden Südvorstadt with around 1,500 apartments were made, for whose sub-project “331 apartments in Nürnberger Strasse ” he received a personal bonus from the Ministerial Fund of the Minister for Development Heinz Winkler in 1954 of 1500 marks received. In the years that followed, Patitz continued to deal with the southern part of the city, including the side streets of Nürnberger Strasse and Würzburger Strasse.

With the constitution of the Association of German Architects in 1954, he joined it again, and when the BDA was converted into the Association of Architects in the GDR in 1972 , Patitz usually continued to sign with the architect BDA .

The Meyer Villa in Oberlößnitz was built privately in 1956/1957 as a "single-family house with a private laboratory in the basement" , a "rare example of a GDR entrepreneur 's villa " for the Radebeul entrepreneur Gerhard Meyer . At the end of the 1950s, in addition to his salaried work, he designed the conversion of the property at Villa Wach in Oberlößnitz as a school extension, as well as the conversion of several buildings.

At the end of 1958, his individual contract was terminated after differences with a new operations manager. The director of the office for area, town and village planning on Altenzeller Straße in Dresden enabled him to work in his office in January 1959, where he became head of town planning group II , responsible for the Riesa , Meißen and Großenhain districts . In 1963 it was renamed Complex Brigade II . From this period, the “General Planning of the City of Riesa ” and the urban design of the Riesa-Weida residential complex with around 4,000 apartments are particularly noteworthy.

As a further task, Patitz was assigned membership in the commission of the Dresden-Land district in 1959 , in 1960/1961 he became chairman of the Bauaktivs division , of which he had been a member since 1955, and in 1961 he became city ​​councilor in Radebeul for the GDR cultural association for which he had worked for many years in the working group for the preservation of monuments and city history . In this context he also became a member of the Standing Commission for Construction , and in 1962 he was appointed honorary monument conservationist for Radebeul.

On January 1, 1965, parts of the office for area, town and village planning became the newly established office for territorial planning at the Dresden District Council . Patitz stayed with them in Altenzeller Strasse, while the other urban planners moved to the newly created office of the district architect Peter Sniegon. In the last few months before his retirement in 1971, Patitz was delegated to the so-called district energy staff.

After retiring, Patitz carried out numerous smaller projects in Radebeul until he died in August 1978 in the Radebeul district hospital as a result of an operation. His grave is in the Radebeul-Ost cemetery .

Appreciation

As an architect, Patitz was a “representative between tradition and modernity”; he was the one who had the "most distinctive [...] handwriting" of his colleagues Alfred Tischer and Max Czopka, who were building houses in Radebeul around the same time in the 1930s . Patitz's houses can be recognized in particular with regard to his individually designed entrance areas, which can be clearly seen in the example of the two-family house at Sachsenstrasse 7 . However, since his houses for mostly well-to-do citizens of Radebeul are distributed over the urban area and fit into the existing cityscape, they do not result in a closed cityscape in contrast to Max Czopka's villas, which are often close together.

Patitz's houses from the 1930s can also be recognized by their architectural style, reminiscent of Loessnitz winegrowers ' houses , consisting of two-storey, plastered structures with a high, tiled hipped roof .

His collaboration with contemporary artists extended not only to the sculptor Franz Schuster, for whom he built his house in 1934 and, in the following years, more often designed tombstones, for example. The House Heinrich Wentzel in the Bodelschwinghstraße 10 in the Niederlößnitz received by the painter and sculptor Hermann ringer a graffito in the form of a wall sundial . The Brock Street Witzer 2.4 as well as the Kötitzer road 137 in the settlement of the country Siedlungsgesellschaft Saxony in Naundorf received reliefs with family scenes the sculptor Burkhart Ebe .

Buildings (excerpt)

literature

  • Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (=  Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 .
  • Dietrich Lohse: Architect Albert Patitz for the hundredth . In: Radebeuler monthly books (ed.): Preview and review . No. 4 . Radebeul 2006.
  • Lutz Patitz: Albert Patitz, a Radebeul architect . On the 100th birthday on May 24th, 2006. In: Radebeuler monthly books (ed.): Preview and review . No. 6 . Radebeul 2006.
  • Lutz Patitz: Albert Patitz, a Radebeul architect . For the 100th birthday on May 24, 2006 (continued from issue 6). In: Radebeuler monthly books (ed.): Preview and review . No. 7 . Radebeul 2006.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Lutz Patitz: Albert Patitz, a Radebeul architect . On the 100th birthday on May 24th, 2006. In: Radebeuler monthly books (ed.): Preview and review . No. 6 . Radebeul 2006.
  2. ↑ a b c Lutz Patitz: Albert Patitz, a Radebeul architect . For the 100th birthday on May 24, 2006 (continued from issue 6). In: Radebeuler monthly books (ed.): Preview and review . No. 7 . Radebeul 2006.
  3. ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 7th f . (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been located in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).
  4. ^ A b Dietrich Lohse: Albert Patitz - a Radebeul architect (part 1) In: Preview and review . Issue 5, 2005, ZDB -ID 1192547-4
personal data
SURNAME Patitz, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Patitz, Hermann Wilhelm Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1978
Place of death Radebeul