Arno Meng

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Arno Meng (born December 18, 1902 in Magdeburg ; † January 6, 1994 there ) was a German architect .

Life

After attending school in Magdeburg in 1920, Arno Meng began an apprenticeship as a banker . After completing his apprenticeship, he became an intern in a company for interior design in 1924 in order to be able to work in an artistic and creative profession. At the same time he took evening courses in technical and freehand drawing. During this time, sympathies with the Magdeburg artists' association Die Kugel were aroused, with whose members he was on friendly terms. From the end of 1924 to the summer of 1928, Arno Meng studied at the Magdeburg School of Applied Arts and Crafts . In addition to his first jobs at the Wellermann and Frölich architects' office in Bremen and from July 1929 in the office of the Bremen architect Hohndorf, where he first came into contact with industrial construction, he took evening courses in statics and building construction at the Bremen State Technical College. In the architectural office of Bernhard Lippsmeier in Magdeburg, he developed the first projects for non-profit housing construction from 1930 to 1931. After a short period of unemployment in 1932, as a student at the studio of Wilhelm Deffke , the director of the Magdeburg School of Applied Arts, he was in charge of expanding this school into a craft art school with an attached materials museum. This plan came to nothing after the Nazis came to power. Those involved were fired. A temporary activity as a freelance architect was followed by a renewed employment as a site manager and architect in Lippsmeier's office from August 1933. The field of activity included building private homes, building cooperative housing and participating in planning for schools, hospitals, old people's homes and churches. At the beginning of 1938 Arno Meng moved to the Harms & Neddermaier office in Braunschweig . From 1939–1945, he was released from military service and transferred to the Neumann-Rundstedt office in Magdeburg for projects for air protection and industrial buildings and special tasks in Leuna .

From 1946 Arno Meng worked freelance in Magdeburg and acted on a voluntary basis as a district architect as well as a member of the advisory board of the district government, subject area architecture examination of the approval of architects. He was co-founder of the Magdeburg branch of the Kulturbund and was its chairman for two years. Within the Kulturbund he founded the architecture working group . During this time he lived at Seumestrasse 3 in Magdeburg's old town . Since 1953 he was a member of the board of directors of both the Otto von Guericke Club and the district group of the Association of German Architects . From February 1947 Arno Meng was appointed by the reinstated Deffke as teacher and head of the architecture class at the technical school for applied arts . In 1948 he was one of the guests alongside Katharina Heise on the day the artists' association was founded . His signature can be found on their deed of incorporation. One of the founding members was his colleague Walter Bischof , head of the glass class at the technical school. After the school closed in 1963, he got a job in the VEB Hochbauprojektierung, later WBK-Projekt. Until he retired in 1967, he was involved in the planning of the reconstruction of the Magdeburg town hall and the interior design of the house of teachers .

plant

Arno Meng earned services for cultural and social buildings primarily during the reconstruction of Magdeburg. These works included in particular the competition to build the AMO cultural center in 1949, the planning and construction management of the Pavlov Polyclinic in 1949/50 (the AMO is now a listed building) and the designs for shop fittings in the city center from 1953-55. He also made a name for himself as an exhibition designer, for example with the construction management of the exhibition “Magdeburg lives” in 1947, the planning and construction management of the exhibition “Handwerker-Leistungsschau” 1952 or the exhibition “Otto von Guericke” 1953.

swell

  • Documents from Konrad Meng, Magdeburg (private)
  • Documents from Sybille Melchert, Goslar (private)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address book of the city of Magdeburg 1950/51 , page 384
  2. ^ Founding document of the dalbe artist group, 1948 . ( Wikisource )
  3. ↑ a b Arno Meng in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon
personal data
SURNAME Meng, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1994
Place of death Magdeburg