Egon Mahnkopf
Egon Mahnkopf (born July 11, 1929 in Friesack ; † September 29, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German architect .
Life
Like the later chief architect of the Palace of the Republic , Heinz Graffunder , Mahnkopf began his studies in 1949 at the "United Building Schools of Berlin" (in Berlin-Neukölln), which he graduated in 1952. In the same year, Mahnkopf began to work at the “Industrial Design Berlin” (IEB). The "national project planning office", founded in 1950, had quickly developed into a large company. Led by the Bauhaus graduate Waldemar Alder , architects and engineers in numerous branches were responsible for the designs for most of the industrial buildings in the GDR .
One of the first major projects that Mahnkopf (with Horst Stelzer and Hans Kagelmann ) was able to realize as the main architect until 1962 was the "Institute for High-Performance Electrical Engineering" in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde , which comprises an entire building complex southeast of the Landsberger Allee / Rhinstrasse intersection (today partially covered by the “Pyramid” high-rise office building). During his time in the “Central Project Planning Office for the Food Industry”, Egon Mahnkopf (with Kurt Schüler) designed two white sugar silos for the Brottewitz sugar factory near Mühlberg an der Elbe (built in 1959/1960 and 1966/1967).
From 1965 onwards, a number of projects and buildings were built that show the architect at the height of his creativity. For example, the AC voltage testing system in Cairo (Egypt), which was partially implemented in 1965/1966 (with Horst Stelzer), the well-known filter hall of the Berlin-Johannisthal waterworks (1965/1967, with Horst Stelzer), the Friedrichshain-Tschernitz television piston factory (1982/1984) between Döbern and Bad Muskau , for which Mahnkopf and his colleagues Jochen Jentsch, Günter Laur, Michael Porep, Hans-Joachim Riebe and Klaus Thimm received the GDR Architecture Prize on “Construction Worker's Day” in 1986 , and in 1994 the Potsdam-Süd thermal power station.
Mahnkopf lived in Berlin since 1949.
Buildings (selection)
- Filter hall of the Berlin-Johannisthal waterworks
- TV piston factory in Friedrichshain / Tschernitz
- Substation Thaerstraße, Berlin-Friedrichshain
- Industrial power plant of the Kali-Chemie company, Berlin-Niederschöneweide (1961/1963)
- Digester group of the Berlin-Nordost sewage treatment plant, Falkenberg (1965)
- Precision forge in Berlin-Niederschönhausen (planning 1964 with Erich Henke, execution 1965/1967)
- five wheat mills in Syria (1967/1969)
- Vockerode gas turbine peak load power plant
- Reconstruction and expansion of the Klingenberg thermal power station , Berlin-Rummelsburg (1986 with Günther Ulbricht and Lothar Arzt)
- Mining and (ore) processing combine (BAK) Kriwoi Rog (1988/1990) (with Horst Stelzer and Holger Rettschlag)
- Potsdam-Süd thermal power station (1994)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The support team has a corresponding proof under ticket: 2012101910006981 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mahnkopf, Egon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Friesack |
| DATE OF DEATH | 29th September 2012 |
| Place of death | Berlin |