Ernst Sagebiel

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Topping-out ceremony in 1935 with Ernst Sagebiel (left), Hermann Göring and Erhard Milch , Reich Ministry of Aviation, Berlin

Ernst Sagebiel (born October 2, 1892 in Braunschweig , † March 5, 1970 in Starnberg ) was a German architect who gained importance during the Nazi era .

Life

Former Reich Aviation Ministry, today Federal Ministry of Finance (2019)
Air Office Münster, built 1934 (2016)
Luftamt Münster, candelabra at the main entrance (2016)

The son of the Brunswick court sculptor Wilhelm Sagebiel (1855-1940) began after the High School , a 1912 study of architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig . Suspended from participation in the First World War and subsequent captivity until 1920 he could finish the study in March 1922nd His teachers were v. a. Hermann Pfeifer and Carl Mühlenpfordt . From April 1922 to September 1923 he worked in the office of the government architect Julius Rolff in Bonn. From September to December 1923 he was employed at the Prussian New Building Office of the University of Bonn , at the side of the government and building councilor Gustav Lampmann , before he joined Jacob Koerfer's architectural office in Cologne in February 1924 . In 1926 he received his doctorate . In 1929 Sagebiel moved to the Berlin office of the architect Erich Mendelsohn as project manager and managing director , which he left on November 1, 1932 due to the poor economic situation. From then on he worked in the construction department of Leiser Handelsgesellschaft mbH .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Sagebiel applied for membership in the NSDAP , which took place in May 1933. He also became a member of the SA in July .

On December 15, 1933, he was employed by the German Aviation School , which, as a cover organization, was involved in building up an air force . From 1934 he was responsible for the planning and construction management of numerous barracks as head of the department for special tasks.

In 1934 and 1935 the building of the Reich Aviation Ministry on Berlin's Wilhelmstrasse was built according to his plans and under his direction . That was the first large-scale building during the Nazi era. It has survived the decades and is on the Berlin list of monuments. Sagebiel then worked on the construction of Tempelhof Airport - the largest building in the world at the time.

The architectural style of Sagebiel, which is very hard and straightforward compared to the more classical tendencies represented by Albert Speer , is referred to as Air Force Modern - not least because of its close connection to the Air Force . With the early construction of the Reich Aviation Ministry on behalf of Hermann Göring , which preceded Albert Speer's later influence on architecture during National Socialism , Sagebiel set a direction that remained recognizable beyond his own work in the Third Reich . From 1938 he was directly subordinate to Hermann Göring and was thus one of the most important architects of the Third Reich. Sagebiel had been appointed honorary professor at the Technical University of Berlin since 1935 . On April 20, 1938, he was also awarded the title of professor by Adolf Hitler .

With the beginning of the war against the Soviet Union in June 1941, Sagebiel's ongoing construction projects were discontinued. This also included the construction of the new Tempelhof Airport , which was only provisionally completed and used for passenger air traffic in the post-war years after the end of the Berlin Airlift . The large reception hall was only inaugurated in 1962.

Life after 1945

At the end of the Second World War, Sagebiel left Berlin with his wife and lived in Aschheim . He was captured by the United States, which lasted until the end of September 1945. As part of the denazification process , he was classified as a fellow traveler in February 1948 and sentenced to an atonement of 2000 Reichsmarks.

Sagebiel worked in a community of architects and was involved in the reconstruction of destroyed houses in Munich. His largest project was a new building for the Merck Finck & Co bank in Munich. The Sagebiels lived in Munich from 1951 and in Feldafing from 1956 . At the beginning of 1964 the couple moved into an apartment in Starnberg . Ernst Sagebiel died of a stroke at the age of 77. His urn was buried in the Munich forest cemetery. He was married to Gertrud Sagebiel (d. 1976) since 1925. The marriage remained childless.

Honors

  • 1937: Appointment as a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts
  • 1938: Award of the title of professor by Adolf Hitler
  • 1939: Appointment as a member of the Academy of Building
  • 1939: Elected to the administrative committee of the Deutsches Museum
  • 1941: Award of the Second Class War Merit Cross with Swords

List of buildings and plans (selection)

Model of the Berlin-Tempelhof airport; Post-war condition with paved runways (2005)
Berlin Tempelhof Airport (2013)
Berlin Tempelhof, Platz der Luftbrücke (2012)
Eagle designed by Sagebiel on the Airlift Square (2011)

In the architecture museum of the TU Berlin there are 2,636 single sheets of the plans made by Sagebiel.

literature

  • Elke Dittrich: Ernst Sagebiel - Life and Work (1892-1970). Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936872-39-2 .
  • Elke Dittrich: Tempelhof Airport. In design drawings and models from 1935 to 1944 . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936872-52-X .
  • Laurenz Demps , Carl-Ludwig Paeschke: Tempelhof Airport. Ullstein, 1998, ISBN 3-550-06973-1 .
  • Hans J. Reichhardt, Wolfgang Schächen : From Berlin to Germania. Transit Buchverlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-88747-127-X (hardcover).
  • Wolfgang Schächen: Architecture and urban development in Berlin between 1933 and 1945. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-7861-1178-2 .
  • André Hoffmann: The National Socialist 'world airport' Berlin-Tempelhof - its origin and significance. GRIN Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-640-83767-0 .
  • Jost Schäfer: The former Luftkreiskommando IV in Münster by Ernst Sagebiel . In: Zeitschrift Westfalen , 76. Vol. Münster 1999, pp. 380–401. ISSN  0043-4337 .
  • Reinhard Bein : Hitler's Brunswick staff. DöringDruck, Braunschweig 2017, ISBN 978-3-925268-56-4 , pp. 222–229.

Web links

Commons : Ernst Sagebiel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument complex Leipziger Straße 5/6, Reich Ministry of Aviation, 1934–36 by Ernst Sagebiel
  2. ↑ Project sheets of the Dt. Commercial aviation school in Halle-Döberitz in the architecture museum of the TU Berlin
  3. ↑ 43 sheets on Tempelhof Airport in the Architecture Museum of the TU Berlin
  4. ↑ Vogelsang 16 monument, residential building, 1934 by E. Sagebiel
  5. ↑ Project sheets on the official housing in Berlin-Dahlem in the architecture museum of the TU Berlin
  6. ↑ Monuments Hüttenweg 21, 25 by E. Sagebiel
  7. ↑ 8 project sheets for the Celle-Wietzenbruch flying school in the architecture museum of the TU Berlin
  8. ↑ 11 project sheets on the air office in Münster in the architecture museum of the TU Berlin
  9. ↑ All 2636 sheets with projects, sketches and construction plans by Ernst Sagebiel in the holdings of the Architecture Museum of the TU Berlin Sagebiel in the Architecture Museum of the TU Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Sagebiel, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH March 5th 1970
Place of death Starnberg