Alfred Schild (architect)

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Kleinmachnow, Karl-Marx-Straße 72, Alfred Schild residential and studio building
Frankfurt am Main, Unitarian Weihehalle, 1960
Giessen, Petruskirche, 1962

Alfred Schild (born January 6, 1905 in Berlin , † April 23, 1996 in Bad Salzhausen ) was a German architect .

Life

Schild began his training in 1919 with the Berlin architect and castle researcher Bodo Ebhardt . After graduating from the Berlin building trade school, Schild worked in the mid-1920s in the planning department of the Sommerfeld group of the building contractor Adolf Sommerfeld , initially as an employee of Fred Forbat , and from 1928 to 1936 as chief architect. Before the Second World War , Schild was mainly active in building housing developments for Sommerfeld in the Berlin area and as a freelance architect. Schild also planned the Berlin subway extension planned by Sommerfeld, but not implemented, via Mexikoplatz to Kleinmachnow . He was also responsible for the graphics and the overall concept of the shopping arcades at the Onkel Toms Hütte underground station, which opened in 1931/32 . After the end of the war, Alfred Schild opened his own architecture office in Frankfurt am Main . In the southern Hessian area he left secular and church buildings in the style of moderate post-war modernism. His DGK bank was one of the first buildings in Frankfurt's banking district; an annex was added in 1957 and demolished in 2011. Other of his buildings - such as the Unitarian Weihehalle (also in Frankfurt am Main) - are now under monument protection .

Buildings (in selection)

  • 1928–1936 Settlement planning for Kleinmachnow near Berlin
  • 1930: Own house in Kleinmachnow, today Karl-Marx-Straße
  • 1937/1938: Company apartments, Bielenbergstrasse 16–36, Kiel-Gaarden
  • 1951: Deutsche Genossenschaftskasse (DGK Bank, later DZ-Bank) in downtown Frankfurt am Main, extension in 1957 (both demolished in 2011)
  • 1956: Reconstruction of the Protestant Church of the Redeemer in Frankfurt am Main-Oberrad (with window design)
  • 1959–1964 Demonstrative building project for GAGFAH in Berlin-Reinickendorf with Gerorg Lichtfuß
  • 1960: Unitarian Weihehalle in downtown Frankfurt am Main
  • 1962: Evangelical Petruskirche in Giessen

literature

  • Karin Berkemann : Post-war churches in Frankfurt am Main (1945–76) (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse , volume 51). Theiss, Stuttgart 2013 (also dissertation, Neuendettelsau, 2012).
  • Celina Kress: Adolf Sommerfeld - Andrew Sommerfield. Building for Berlin 1910–1970. Berlin 2011.
  • Nicola Bröcker: Kleinmachnow near Berlin. Living between town and country 1920–1945. Berlin 2010.
  • Nicola Bröcker, Celina Kress: Settle southwest. Kleinmachnow near Berlin. From the villa colony to the town house settlement. 2nd Edition. Berlin 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biographical data and other references from: Celina Kress: Adolf Sommerfeld - Andrew Sommerfeld, p. 11.
  2. ↑ cf. Celina Kress: Between Bauhaus and Bürgerhaus - The projects of the Berlin contractor Adolf Sommerfeld. On the continuity of suburban urban production and rational building in Germany 1910–1970. Diss. TU-Berlin, 2008, p. 109.
  3. ^ Helmut Weihsmann: Building under the swastika. Vienna 1998, p. 569.
  4. ↑ Dieter Bartetzko: Farewell to the good yesterday. In: FAZ.net . January 27, 2011, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ http://denkxweb.denkmalpflege-hessen.de/cgi-bin/mapwalk.pl?obj=61766&event=Query.Details
personal data
SURNAME Schild, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1996
Place of death Bad Salzhausen