Christoph Miller

The rebuilt TH Darmstadt

Christoph Miller (born November 27, 1902 in Munich , † January 7, 1988 in Berlin ) was a German architect and construction clerk at the Post Building School .

Life

Christoph Miller studied from 1922 to 1926 Architecture at the Technical University of Munich with Theodor Fischer and German Bestelmeyer . He then worked as a trainee lawyer at the Oberpostdirektion Würzburg . In 1927 he submitted his competition design for Oberwiesenfeld Airport under the keyword "navigare necesse est", which was purchased. In 1929 he was appointed government builder ( Assessor ). From 1930 to 1934 he worked as a freelance architect in Würzburg, from 1934 to 1945 as an architect for the Air Force, including 1934 to 1938 for Luftgaukommando VII in Munich, 1938 to 1943 in Vienna , 1943 to 1944 in Hamburg and finally again until the end of the war in Munich.

He spent the years 1945 to 1949 in captivity , where he also worked as an employee for various architects. From 1950 to 1951 he worked on Theo Pabst's initiative in the State University Building Office in Darmstadt , which was created in mid-1949 , where he was jointly responsible for the reconstruction of the Technical University . 1951 to 1958 then in the Oberpostdirektion Frankfurt am Main , first as Oberpostdirektor, then as department director. In 1958 he moved to Bonn as a ministerial advisor to the Federal Post Office . In 1967 Miller retired.

Buildings and designs

• 1926: Post office Kleinheubach (with Albert Lehr and Karl Schineis )
• 1926–1927: Mellrichstadt post office (with Albert Lehr)
• 1928: Aschaffenburg motor vehicle hall (with Albert Lehr and Heinrich Götzger )
• 1929: Residential building Würzburg- Zellerau (with Albert Lehr and Heinrich Götzger)
• 1933: Competition design for the NS model estate Ramersdorf near Munich (with Theo Pabst )
• 1934: House in the model estate Ramersdorf near Munich (with Theo Pabst)
• 1934: Competition design for the Reichsfuhrer School of the NSDAP in Neu-Grünwald near Munich (with Theo Pabst, 2nd group, 500 Reichsmarks)
• Bad Aibling airfield
• Airfield Göppingen (with beer and Panitz)
• Airport Wien-Schwechat
• Air Force Office in Vienna
• Luftgaukommando in Vienna
• Luftgaukommando XI in Hamburg-Nienstedten (today: Command Academy of the Bundeswehr )
• 1950: Competition design for the Merckhaus in Darmstadt, Rheinstraße 7/9 (with Theo Pabst, awarded 1st prize)

literature

• Florian Aicher, Uwe Drepper: Robert Vorhoelzer. An architect's life. The classic modernity of the Post. Georg DW Callwey, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7667-0960-7 .
• Regina Stephan (Ed.): Theo Pabst (1905–1979). Architecture in the continuum over all times . Spurbuchverlag, Baunach 2008, ISBN 978-3-88778-331-0 .
• City of Science Darmstadt (Ed.): The Technical University of Darmstadt. A history of construction . Darmstadt 2007.
• Technical University of Darmstadt (ed.): Reconstruction and expansion. The state university building authority Darmstadt 1949-1988. Darmstadt 2016.