Carl-Heinz Schwennicke

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Carl-Heinz Schwennicke (also Carl-Heinrich Schwennicke or Karl-Heinrich Schwennicke ; born January 31, 1901 in Berlin , † July 10, 1985 there ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

The son of the engineer Paul Schwennicke and grandson of the engineer Carl Schwennicke completed a degree in architecture at the Technical University of Berlin , which he graduated in 1925 with an engineering degree. From 1926 to 1927 he trained as a master student of Hans Poelzig at the Berlin Academy of the Arts . From 1928, Schwennicke worked as an architect for the Berlin magistrate under city planning officer Martin Wagner . In the 1930s and 1940s he worked at the TH Berlin as a research assistant to professors Hans Poelzig, Carl Caesar and Emil Rüster . From 1942 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier and in May 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was released in October 1948.

After his return from captivity, Schwennicke initially worked as a freelance architect. From 1951 to 1958 he was associate professor and then until his retirement in 1967 full professor for interior design at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin.

In the 1950s, Schwennicke played a key role in the reconstruction of Bellevue Palace, which was destroyed in World War II . In the 1960s he headed the construction of the Heinrich Hertz Institute on the north site of the TU Berlin.

Schwennicke was married until his wife's death in 1974 and had three daughters.

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