Carl Brodführer

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Carl Theodor Brodführer (born March 2, 1884 in Meiningen ; † May 10, 1960 in Berlin ) was a German architect , government and building officer.

Life

After finishing high school in Meiningen, Brodführer studied architecture at the TH Charlottenburg and the TH Munich . He initially worked as a government site manager in Berlin, Jerusalem and Gdansk, before starting in 1914 as an unskilled worker in the Ministry of Public Works. From 1914 to 1919 he was a soldier in World War I, from which he returned with a thigh amputee. From 1920 to 1924 Brodführer was a government and building officer at the Deutsche Reichsbahn. His most important work here was the renovation of the Friedrichstrasse station . From 1924 he was a freelance architect in Berlin. In 1932 he became a member of the Reich Competition Committee, and in 1935 first deputy chairman of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts for the Kurmark area. In 1938 he joined the NSDAP and from 1941 worked for the Todt Organization and the SS .

Works (selection)

  • 1919–1925 Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse Berlin: Extension and new construction of the hall
  • 1922–1924 Expansion of the Ministry of Transport, Vossstrasse, Berlin
  • 1925–1926 sales houses and shops owned by I. Neumann et al., Mohrenstrasse / corner Friedrichstrasse, Berlin
  • 1927 MER travel agency, Unter den Linden, Berlin
  • 1928 MER travel agency, Kurfürstendamm Joachimsthalerstraße, Berlin
  • 1935–1936 Lindenkirche, Berlin
  • 1936–1937 Administration and residential construction of the pipe network workshop of Berliner Wasserbetriebe, Melchiorstrasse 20–22, Berlin-Mitte
  • 1938–1939 Administration building of the Berliner Wasserbetriebe, Hohenzollerndamm 45, Berlin-Wilmersdorf
  • 1938–1939 Administration building, Hohenzollerndamm 46–47, Berlin-Wilmersdorf (so-called "Margarinehaus")
  • 1946–1957 Gnadenkirche, Jaczostraße 52/54, Berlin-Wilhelmstadt
  • 1955–1956 Evangelium Church, Reinickendorf

Fonts

  • The Protestant Lindenkirche in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, 1937, pp. 702–708.

literature

  • Carl Th. Brodführer, with an introduction by Fritz Stahl , Berlin: Schellin 1927.
  • Christian Welzbacher: The State Architecture of the Weimar Republic , Berlin: Lukas 2006, ISBN 978-3-936872-62-0 , p. 293.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Elisabath M. Hajos / Leopold Zahn: Berlin architecture of the post-war period, Berlin: Albertus 1928, p. 112.
  2. ↑ Elisabath M. Hajos / Leopold Zahn: Berlin architecture of the post-war period, Berlin: Albertus 1928, p. 113.
  3. ↑ Fig. In: EM Hajos / L. Zahn: Berlin architecture of the post-war period, Berlin: Albertus 1928, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Brodführer, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brodführer, Carl Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Meiningen
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1960
Place of death Berlin