August Josef Peter

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August Josef Peter (born April 4, 1906 in Malstatt-Burbach ; † October 15, 1963 in Monte Rosso, Italy) was a German architect who was best known for his numerous Catholic church buildings.

Life

August Josef Peter was born in 1906 as the son of the master carpenter August Christian Peter and his wife Emilie. He had been with Gabriele Rosia Josepha born in 1937. Finches married.

Peter attended secondary school in Zweibrücken between 1915 and 1924 and graduated from high school . After several months of practical work on construction sites, he began studying architecture at the Technical University of Munich in 1924 . In 1926 he did an internship at the Speyer Post Office . He completed his studies in 1929 with the main diploma examination. This was followed by two years of legal traineeship for the higher service and, with the second state examination in 1931, he was appointed government master builder ( assessor in public construction) at the Speyer Post Office.

After retiring from the civil service, he ran his own architecture office in Landau in the Palatinate from 1933 . In 1941 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and only released from Soviet captivity in 1949 , from which he returned to Godramstein . Because of his bad health from the five years imprisonment, he traveled to Italy for a cure in 1963, where he died on October 15th in Monte Rosso. He was buried in Godramstein.

Buildings and designs

Before World War II

• Repair of the church in Rülzheim
• Repair of the church in Rheinzabern
• St. Georg Church in Neunkirchen-Kohlhof (1934)
• Deutsches Weintor (1935 after winning the competition; construction management with architect Mittler)
• War memorial chapel in St. Wendel-Urweiler (1935; reconstruction 1954)
• St. Guido Church in Speyer (1936)

After the Second World War

• Repair of the church in Steinfeld
• Repair of the church in Berg
• Repair of the church in Niederotterbach
• Church in Merzalben (1955)
• Church in Godramstein (1960)
• Holy Spirit Church in Ludwigshafen (1962)
• Church in Rechtenbach (1963)
• Christ the King Church in Landau (1963–1964)
• Repair of the Holy Cross Church in Landau (1966)
• Church in Zweibrücken-Bubenhausen (posthumously 1966)
• Church in Zweibrücken-Rimschweiler (posthumously 1966)
• Draft for the reconstruction of the Zweibrücken Castle (1960, only carried out posthumously)
• Church in Wernersberg (posthumous)
• Extension for the German Wine Gate (posthumously 1966)