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Arnold Knoblauch (portrait by Werner Schramm , 1952)

Arnold Paul Knoblauch (born January 18, 1879 in Berlin , † February 9, 1963 in Stuttgart ) was a German architect .

Life

Knoblauch, a grandson of the Berlin architect Eduard Knoblauch and a son of the Berlin architect Gustav Knoblauch (1833–1916), completed his architectural studies with the 2nd state examination and was appointed government architect ( assessor in the public building administration). During his studies he became a member of the Academic Association Motiv . Around 1909 he quit his civil service to work with his father and the former government architect. D. Ernst Mellin to work in the architectural community G. & A. Knoblauch, E. Mellin .

Knoblauch was managing director of the Mitteldeutsche Heimstätte Wohnungsfürsorgegesellschaft mbH in Magdeburg from 1921 to 1924 . In 1924 he took over the function of general director ( chairman of the board ) at Gagfah , which he held until 1956. Under his direction, Gagfah directed the exhibition Building and Living in 1928 , in the course of which the experimental settlement on Fischtalgrund in Berlin-Zehlendorf was created.

Arnold Knoblauch pursued the goal of using as little public funds as possible for the housing construction he was promoting. Under Knoblauch's leadership, Gagfah became the largest German housing company. In the 30 years he worked for Gagfah, 45,000 apartments and a further 27,000 private homes were built. Arnold Knoblauch was general director of the German Academy for Building Research for a short time towards and shortly after the end of the Second World War . Knoblauch was also chairman of the supervisory board of the Deutsche Bau- und Bodenbank .

buildings

• 1909 Corpshaus Guestphalia , Marburg
• 1910–1913 Seitendorf Castle. Extension building, Bolków im Powiat Jaworski , Poland
• 1911–1914 Reconstruction of the Keibel Manor, Ludwigsburg / Uckermark ( Schenkenberg ) (today a senior citizen center)
• 1913–1915 Reconstruction of Erxleben Castle

Honors

In 1952 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In his honor, the city of Magdeburg named a street as Arnold-Knoblauch-Straße . The Arnold Knoblauch ring has existed in Berlin-Wannsee since 1968.

literature

• Annette Bossmann, Andreas Teltow: Three architects in Berlin. Eduard Knoblauch 1801–1865, Gustav Knoblauch 1833–1916, Arnold Knoblauch 1879–1963 . (Catalog for the special exhibition from September 9, 1993 to January 2, 1994 in the Knoblauchhaus Museum ) Märkisches Museum, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-910029-05-1 .
• Katja Sölling: Architect is honored with a street in the southeast. In: Magdeburger Volksstimme from August 29, 2006.
• Contributions to the theory and practice of housing construction. Festschrift for Arnold Knoblauch. Domus-Verlag, Bonn 1959.

Web links

• Literature by and about Arnold Knoblauch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Projects by Arnold Knoblauch. In: Architekturmuseum TU Berlin. Retrieved April 22, 2020 . 
• Projects by Knoblauch, Arnold & Knoblauch, Gustav. In: Architekturmuseum TU Berlin. Retrieved April 22, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 34.
2. ↑ Festschrift of Aareal Bank, p. 46. (PDF) ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 8, 2017. 
3. ^ Arnold Knoblauch Ring. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )