Erich Blunck

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Erich Blunck (born April 18, 1872 in Heide (Holstein) , † September 14, 1950 in Berlin ) was a German architect , monument conservator and university professor .

Life

Blunck grew up as the son of the builder Carl Heinrich Friedrich Blunck in Lübeck . He visited the Katharineum in Lübeck and studied - after successfully completing his mason apprenticeship - at the Technical University of Charlottenburg . After extensive study trips to Italy, Spain and France, he entered the Prussian civil service. From 1900 he worked in the Prussian Ministry of Culture and in 1907 was appointed government councilor and deputy curator of the art monuments. In 1908 he received his first teaching assignment for monument preservation at the Technical University of Charlottenburg. From 1919 to 1944 he was the provincial curator of the province of Brandenburg, director of today's Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the State Archaeological Museum . He opened his own office and was professor at the Technical University of Berlin from 1916 to 1937 and from 1947 to 1950. In 1922 he was its rector. From 1920 he was a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts . At times he was the editor of the Deutsche Bauzeitung . In 1928 he was one of the founders of the conservative group of architects Der Block .

Grave of Erich Blunck and his wife, Steglitz cemetery

Blunck was an important representative of homeland security architecture . Ten of his Berlin buildings alone (churches, cemetery, office and residential buildings) are listed .

Many of his designs (over 500 drawings and blueprints ) are in the collection of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin and some of them are accessible in digital form.

Erich Blunck and his wife Karin, b. Martens, with whom he was married since 1900 and had five sons and three daughters, are buried in the Steglitz cemetery. The Blunckstrasse in Berlin-Reinickendorf is named after him. He should not be confused with his brother, Stadtbaudirektor Richard Blunck (born August 8, 1873 in Heide, † February 26, 1948 in Berlin), who is buried in the same cemetery.

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Buildings and designs

Nikolassee Church
  • 1901–1903: Friedrich Bergius School in Berlin-Friedenau (with Paul Engelmann)
  • 1903–1904: Office building Universitätsstrasse 3B Georgenstrasse 37 & 38 in Berlin-Mitte , historical building
  • 1904–1907: Group of single-family houses (with Blunck's own house) Burgunder Strasse 8/10 in Berlin-Nikolassee, architectural monument
  • 1905: Landhaus Borsig in Berlin-Tegel , architectural monument
  • 1906–1907: House at Otto-Erich-Strasse 9 in Berlin-Wannsee , architectural monument
  • 1907: Residential building at Burgunder Strasse 10 in Berlin-Nikolassee , architectural monument
  • 1909–1910: Protestant church Nikolassee , architectural monument
  • 1909: Villa Lindenallee 20 in Berlin-Westend , architectural monument
  • 1911: Residential and commercial building at Steinstrasse 38 in Brandenburg an der Havel , architectural monument
  • 1912: Manor house in Sauen , architectural monument
  • 1913–1914: Evangelical parish hall at Erich-Kästner-Platz 1 in Cottbus , monument
  • 1913–1914: Residential building at Kleiststrasse 21 in Berlin-Zehlendorf , monument
  • 1920: Tomb for Emil Possehl in Lübeck, on the Burgtorfriedhof
  • 1921–1924: Buildings on the Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin, architectural monument
  • 1928/29: Parsonage of the Evangelical Church Community at Kranzallee 13 in Berlin-Westend , monument
  • 1930–1931: Spremberg station estate, station forecourt 1–12 in Spremberg , monument
  • 1934–1936: Reconstruction of the former malt kiln (now a youth hostel) at Klosterplatz 3 in Cottbus , monument

Fonts

  • Preservation of monuments and urban development. Ernst and Son, Berlin 1913. (= Urban Planning Lectures , Volume 6, Issue 2.)
  • Schinkel and the preservation of monuments. (Speech given at the Berlin Architects' Association for the Schinkel Festival on March 13, 1916) Ernst and Son, Berlin 1916.
  • About freedom in education for architecture at the technical university. (Speech given at the beginning of the rector's office at the Technical University of Berlin (...) on July 1, 1922) Markwart-Verlag, Berlin 1922.

literature

  • Rudolf Jaeger: Blunck, Erich. In: Olaf Klose (Ed.): Schleswig-Holsteinisches Biographisches Lexikon. Volume 1, Wachholtz, Neumünster 1970, pp. 79-84.

Web links

Commons : Erich Blunck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The family has a journeyman's certificate.
  2. ↑ Information on Erich Blunck ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the pages of the Friedrich Bergius School @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.friedrich-bergius-schule.de
  3. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  4. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  5. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  6. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  7. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  8. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  9. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  10. ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
  11. ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
  12. ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
  13. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  14. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  15. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  16. ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
  17. ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
personal data
SURNAME Blunck, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, monument conservator and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Heath (Holstein)
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1950
Place of death Berlin