Edith Dinkelmann

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Edith Dinkelmann (born Schulze , born August 23, 1896 in Königsberg , East Prussia , † June 10, 1984 in Karlsbad , Czechoslovakia ) was a German architect . She was the first woman to be admitted to study architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig .

Studies and internships

Edith Margarethe Emilie Schulze was born on August 23, 1896 as the daughter of first lieutenant in the field artillery regiment No. 16 Max Schulze and his wife Marianne in Königsberg. She attended the municipal higher girls 'school in Grunewaldstrasse in Berlin-Schöneberg for five years and, after moving in 1907, the girls ' high school in Dessau . She passed her matriculation examination on March 12, 1915 in Bernburg an der Saale . In the same year she began studying architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig , where she was the first woman to be admitted to study architecture here. During the semester break, my first work as an intern in the Anhalt building administration in Dessau followed. She completed a second internship in 1916 in the office of the Privy Councilor Lübcke in Braunschweig . Edith Dinkelmann passed the preliminary diploma examination with "good" in 1917. During the First World War she worked in the agricultural building advice center in Wehlau (East Prussia). In April 1918 she moved to the Technical University of Munich with the promise that she would be the first woman to take her diploma in Braunschweig. Here she was a student of the renowned urban planner Theodor Fischer and did a three-month internship in Fischer's office in Munich- Laim . In 1919 she registered for the main diploma in Braunschweig, which she passed in November with the grade "Good".

Professional career

She got her first job as an architect at the non-profit settlement company Stadt und Land mbH Dessau, founded in 1919 . There she initially dealt with the planning of the group of houses "Am Achteck" and the "Giebelweg". The planning of the "Hohe Lache" settlement followed.

Edith Dinkelmann became the assistant to Theodor Overhoff, planner of the garden city "Hohe Lache". This is in the immediate vicinity of the Bauhaus site. In terms of building history, it follows the reform idea of ​​the garden cities at the beginning of the 20th century. The idea of ​​community is emphasized, which is implemented architecturally through an octagonal center. The two-storey development with row houses , two- family houses and multi-family houses is directly under the influence of the garden city of Hellerau . Edith Dinkelmann was involved in all implementation planning and construction management. In 1924 she took over the design, planning and execution for the "Fichtenbreite" street. Dinkelmann repeatedly applied this consistent ranking in her later projects in Dessau, Halberstadt , Groß Ottersleben and Bad Dürrenberg . During her work on the redesign of the cemetery on Ballenstedter Strasse, she met her future husband. In 1924 she became engaged to the chemist Bernhard Dinkelmann and in 1927 they married.

Edith Dinkelmann's resting place in the portal columbarium she designed

In the summer of 1925 Edith Dinkelmann went to the Mitteldeutsche Heimstätte Wohnungsfürsorgegesellschaft mbH Magdeburg . In the same year, on behalf of the Heimstättengesellschaft Neu-Deutschland, the “Am Blaue Stein” estate was built together with the architect Fritz Keller from Magdeburg . In 1926 her criticism of the Bauhaus and specifically the architecture of Walter Gropius appeared . The settlement in Genthin on Zeppelinstrasse / Lessingstrasse, which was built between 1928 and 1929, clearly shows Edith Dinkelmann's influence. Her experiences from working with Theodor Fischer are very clearly visible here. The residential complex "Im Mittelfelde" Neue Neustadt in Magdeburg is one of Edith Dinkelmann's last construction projects. In 1933 she was the victim of the double earner decree and had to give up her job. Only after the war did she get a permanent job.

After 1945 Edith Dinkelmann worked as a town planning officer in Dessau. During this time she campaigned for the reconstruction of the stalls on the “Great Market”. As an employee in the city building department, she planned and built u. a. a residential building on Rabestrasse and the service building at the slaughterhouse, which is now a listed building. Dinkelmann was involved in the reconstruction of Dessau until 1948. After the political situation had changed and the demolition of the city palace could no longer be stopped, she quit her job with the city in 1948 and started her own business as an architect. In 1958 she emigrated to West Germany. In Baden-Württemberg she built a new life for herself.

literature

  • Ute Maasberg, Regina Prinz: The new ones are coming! Female avant-garde in the architecture of the twenties. , Junius Verlag, ISBN 978-3-88506-550-0

Web links

Commons : Edith Dinkelmann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ute Maasberg, Regina Prinz: The new ones are coming! Female avant-garde in the architecture of the twenties. , Junius Verlag, ISBN 978-3-88506-550-0
  2. ↑ a b c supersonntag-web.de , Edith Schulze, one of the first architects
  3. ↑ mz-web.de , in memory of the architect Dinkelmann-Moehring
personal data
SURNAME Dinkelmann, Edith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulze, Edith (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1984
Place of death Carlsbad , Czechoslovakia