Erich Karweik

Erich A. Karweik (born June 6, 1893 in Charlottenburg , † October 16, 1967 in Berlin ) was a German architect .

Live and act

Erich Karweik was born in Charlottenburg in 1893 . He learned the carpentry and bricklaying trade and passed the journeyman's examination. From 1912 to March 1914 he studied five semesters at the Berlin-Neukölln building trade school and also sat in for a few semesters at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg . In December 1914 he was called up for military service, which he did mainly in Turkey , the then Ottoman Empire , which was an ally of the German Empire . From July 1916 to December 1918 was employed as a construction manager of a railway line to Baghdad in Nisibin ( Nusaybin on the Turkish-Syrian border ).

After he returned home in March 1919, he found a job as a site manager with the architects Bielenberg & Moser in Berlin. From 1919 to 1921 he was co-owner of a Berlin construction company and from 1921 to 1922 he worked for Heinrich Straumer , also in Berlin. In June 1922 he switched to Erich Mendelsohn's architectural office , where he was entrusted with higher-level tasks as chief architect from 1923. Business and private trips abroad took him to near and far abroad. At the beginning of 1933 the office was forced to close by the National Socialists . Karweik, who was not averse to the new ruling ideology , was allowed to continue practicing his profession. He even adapted himself to the point that, in accordance with the Nuremberg Laws, he separated from his Jewish wife and elementary school-age daughter.

"Aralhaus", Berlin, Hohenzollerndamm

In May 1933 he went into business for himself and took the architect Charles du Vinage as a partner . By 1940 they planned country houses , private homes , administrative buildings and settlements . For example, the BV-Aral administration building , Hohenzollerndamm 44, Berlin (1939 to 1940), today a cultural monument, dates from this time . A draft for a monumental congress and exhibition hall in Berlin that was developed around the same time was not realized. When du Vinage left at the beginning of 1940, Karweik continued on his own and now also designed industrial buildings . From 1943 to 1944 he was site manager in the Berlin-Schöneberg district and operator of Berliner Bau AG. From June 1943 until the end of the war he was responsible for the repair of air raid damage , first in Berlin, then in Osnabrück and Münster.

On September 1, 1945, he joined the SPD . On December 3, 1945, he began working as the second deputy head of the municipal department for building and housing under Hans Scharoun in Greater Berlin . A series of competitions marks this creative phase. On March 17, 1946 Karweik was appointed acting head of the main office for construction in Berlin, then from 1947 to 1949 deputy city councilor and head of the building construction office in Bochum.

Fonts

together with Charles du Vinage: Erich Mendelsohn. The architect's overall oeuvre - 402 illustrations: sketches, drafts, buildings. Rudolf Mosse Buchverlag, Berlin 1930.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^{d Directory of} persons. (PDF) In: reimer-mann-verlag.de . Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b Erich A. Karweik Collection. Short biography / history of the institution. In: adk.de. Academy of the Arts, accessed May 26, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Eva-Maria Barkhofen (ed.): Architecture in the archive. The collection of the Academy of Arts . DOM Publishers, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86922-492-3 , Erich A. Karweik, p. 522 .
↑ Joachim Hagenauer , Martin Pabst: Adaptation, insubordination and resistance. Karl Küpfmüller , Hans Piloty , Hans Ferdinand Mayer - three telecommunications scientists in the “Third Reich” . Presented at the general meeting of the BAdW on October 19, 2012 (= mathematical and natural science class. Treatises . Episode 178). Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7696-2665-3 ( formally incorrect ) , CVs and careers (compared) from 1933 to 1945, p. 22 .

Web links

Erich A. Karweik collection in the archive of the Academy of Arts , Berlin

personal data
SURNAME	Karweik, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Karweik, Erich A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	June 6, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH	October 16, 1967
Place of death	Berlin

[reimer-1] {d Directory of} persons. (PDF) In: reimer-mann-verlag.de . Retrieved May 26, 2020 .

[adk-2] Erich A. Karweik Collection. Short biography / history of the institution. In: adk.de. Academy of the Arts, accessed May 26, 2020 .

[Barkhofen-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Eva-Maria Barkhofen (ed.): Architecture in the archive. The collection of the Academy of Arts . DOM Publishers, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86922-492-3 , Erich A. Karweik, p. 522 .

[4] Joachim Hagenauer , Martin Pabst: Adaptation, insubordination and resistance. Karl Küpfmüller , Hans Piloty , Hans Ferdinand Mayer - three telecommunications scientists in the “Third Reich” . Presented at the general meeting of the BAdW on October 19, 2012 (= mathematical and natural science class. Treatises . Episode 178). Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7696-2665-3 ( formally incorrect ) , CVs and careers (compared) from 1933 to 1945, p. 22 .