Erich zu Putlitz

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Erich Wilhelm Julius Freiherr Gans Edler Herr zu Putlitz (born February 1, 1892 in Brahlstorf ; † January 28, 1945 in Hamburg ) was a German architect and town planner .

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After school he began an apprenticeship as a stonemason . After passing his journeyman's examination, he attended evening school and worked as a set designer at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . During the First World War he was a naval aviator and stationed in Dresden . He then worked at the renowned Dresden architecture firm Lossow & Kühne . He also took part in various architecture competitions, some of which were advertised internationally, and some of them he won. Due to the strong response to his designs in Bulgaria , he moved there. Zu Putlitz went to Sofia for two years and was able to carry out a number of projects there. Although Germany was in a difficult economic situation at that time, he returned to Hamburg. Due to his charismatic appearance and his international successes, he got a job at Klophaus und Schoch and later became a partner.

Putlitz and the Third Reich

Pulitz was a member of the NSDAP and participated frequently in tenders for government and party buildings, about 1,934 in the competition for a Schlageterforum in Dusseldorf, where he won a first prize, and 1937/38 for a County House Hamburg , which he as an office skyscraper designed . On behalf of the National Socialist Reich Government, Putlitz presented a plan in 1935 for the "urban expansion of the seaside town of Rostock ". In this plan he tried to take into account the enormous population growth in the course of the constantly expanding aircraft and armaments industry. The area of ​​today's Südstadt was intended as the priority building area . Putlitz is also credited with a design dated 1935 for the radical redesign of Rostock's old town , in which widened and straightened streets were presented, which, however, led to protests by many Rostock residents under the spokesman of the state monument keeper Adolf Friedrich Lorenz and was then dropped. In addition to several streets with residential developments in the west and north of Rostock, Putlitz's plans were mainly used for sports facilities as the beginnings of a spacious Nazi parade area, which was used in the 1950s to develop the Ostseestadion .

Since Putlitz, like Peter Behrens , Emil Fahrenkamp , Ernst Sagebiel or Herbert Rimpl, was influenced by neoclassicism before 1933 , he developed this style further. He only chose a different architecture for the buildings in the settlement on Rübenkamp. The latter were not demolished after the Second World War . In his plans for state buildings, he was influenced by the monumental architecture, which was supported by propaganda and later judged to be "National Socialist" architecture .

Putlitz took part in competitions to expand the Reichstag and the Geneva Palais des Nations . He won the tender for the Columbus monument in Santo Domingo , which was not yet realized at the time , which nevertheless made him internationally known in professional circles.

In addition to an expansion of the Reichstag, zu Putlitz also planned the redesign of the old Königsplatz (" Platz der Republik ") and the closure of Siegesallee .

literature

  • Hartmut Frank: In search of modern monumental architecture. In: Petra Bojahr: Erich zu Putlitz. Life and work 1892–1945. Studies on monumental architecture. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1997, p. 14.
  • Winfried Nerdinger : Architecture and Mass Murder. In: War, Destruction, Construction. Architecture and urban planning 1940-1950. Henschel, Berlin 1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Petra Bojahr: Erich zu Putlitz. Life and work 1892-1945. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1997. (Excerpts available online at architekturarchiv-web.de ( Memento from August 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
  2. ↑ Stefanie Schäfers: From the Werkbund to the four-year plan. The exhibition "Schaffendes Volk", Düsseldorf 1937 . In: Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein (Ed.) Sources and research on the history of the Lower Rhine , Volume 4 (= contributions from the Research Center for Architectural History and Monument Preservation of the Bergische Universität-Gesamtthochschule Wuppertal , Volume XI), Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-3045 -1 . See website Existing development I
  3. ^ Andreas Hohn: Rostock: Hanseatic city on the rise . In: Klaus von Beyme u. a. (Ed.): New cities from ruins. German post-war urban development . Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7913-1164-6 , pp. 118, 119
  4. ↑ Gritt Brosowski: The National Socialist Community 'Strength through Joy' and the first 'KdF' seaside resort Prora on Rügen. Göttingen no year
  5. ^ Werner Hegemann : Tower house on the Reichstag ?! In: Der Städtebau , XXV. Vol. (1930) ( Memento of October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Verlag Ernst Wasmuth AG, Berlin, p. 104, PDF file, accessed on September 29, 2013
  6. ↑ See illustration no.M 036 in: Portrait: Erich zu Putlitz in the Hamburg Architecture Archive of the Hamburg Chamber of Architects ( Memento from April 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on the architekturarchiv-web.de portal on September 29, 2013

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SURNAME Putlitz, Erich too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goose Noble Herr zu Putlitz, Erich Wilhelm Julius Freiherr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Brahlstorf
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1945
Place of death Hamburg