Erich Franz Leischner

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Erich Franz Leischner (born January 2, 1887 in Vienna ; † April 14, 1970 there ) was an Austrian architect and Senate Councilor in the Vienna City Planning Department.

Life

The Pottendorfer Strasse substation - one of Leischner's first structures

Leischner was born in the building of the Vienna Main Fire Brigade, Am Hof . He studied from 1906 to 1912 at the Technical University of Vienna . His teachers there were Karl Mayreder , Karl König , Max von Ferstel and Leopold Simony . One year before he finished his studies, however, he started working as a student trainee in the service of the municipality of Vienna, where he mainly made drawings for the waterworks . At this time his first structures, such as various water tanks and the substation Pottendorfer Strasse, were built. During the First World War he was the site manager for a pioneer battalion , but otherwise - regardless of all political changes during this time - he was the civil servant architect of the town hall until 1949. In 1917 he married Emilie Fuchs, with whom he has a daughter.

The Pfannenstielhof and a tram line 42

After the war, Leischner joined the architecture department of the city building authority and passed the necessary state building service examination in 1919. As a result, he designed several community buildings , including the Robert-Blum-Hof and the Pfannenstielhof . Due to the reputation he gained with this activity, he was suggested several times to fill various chairs at the Technical University, but was never able to prevail. In addition to these buildings, there were also infrastructure buildings such as bus garages , fire stations and baths, the most important of which was the congress baths in Ottakring and Hernals . He was also a very talented draftsman, so there are also drawings of the projects of numerous other architects. In addition to his work for the City of Vienna, Leischner also worked as a private architect and was commissioned with several residential buildings. In 1930 he divorced his wife. He then lived with the journalist Stephanie Holzer, whom he could not marry until 1945.

The congress pool was originally equipped with a 100 meter pool.

The February uprising in 1934 had practically no influence on the city building department. At that time, Leischner was responsible for planning and designing the Höhenstraße . After the connection he was transferred to the city regulation department, where he mainly made drawings and diagrams. However, he also received the order to design the bunker on the Gallitzinberg for Baldur von Schirach .

After the Second World War he became head of the municipal department for architecture. Since then, he has also had written works on architectural topics. He was awarded the title of Senate Councilor, but had to retire in 1949 for health reasons - after initial resistance on his part. Nevertheless, he still received many orders from the City of Vienna afterwards. He was responsible for rebuilding the house where he was born, the fire brigade headquarters. This house was actually a new building, but it looks very similar to its predecessor. The Aspern Bridge , the Rotunda Bridge and the Salztor Bridge are based on his designs . He also had designs for a number of other Danube Canal bridges , but they were never realized. The Laaerbergbad , which opened in 1959, was his last major work .

Awards

Works

Plaque on the Rotunda Bridge

Due to the very extensive work of Leischner, the list is only a small selection. All the buildings mentioned were built in Vienna .

literature

  • Erich Bernard, Barbara Feller: Amt Macht Stadt Erich Leischner and the Wiener Stadtbauamt , Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg 1999, ISBN 3-7025-0405-2

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SURNAME Leischner, Erich Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1970
Place of death Vienna