Ferdinand Keilmann

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Ferdinand Keilmann (born July 24, 1907 in Würzburg , † September 7, 1979 in Bochum ; full name: Ferdinand Johann Martin Keilmann ) was a German architect .

Life

Ferdinand Keilmann was the oldest of three children of the grammar school teacher and music professor Ferdinand Keilmann and his wife Rosa, née Lehmann. Together with his brother Wilhelm and sister Agnes (married Spinnler) he grew up in Würzburg, Nuremberg and Aschaffenburg . Due to rickets , Keilmann was hard of hearing and could not take up the desired profession of musician .

After an apprenticeship as a carpenter , he studied from 1924 to 1927 in Hugo Eberhardt's architecture class at the technical college in Offenbach am Main and then worked in his studio. At the beginning of 1928 he moved to Otto Leitolf's private studio in Aschaffenburg for a year . After a short period of self-employment, between September 1929 and June 1933 he completed another degree in architecture in Weimar at the Staatliche Bauhochschule, the successor institution to the Bauhaus . He belonged to Ernst Neufert's class ; After his dismissal by Minister of Education Wilhelm Frick in April 1930, Keilmann continued his studies at the university now headed by Paul Schultze-Naumburg , but continued to work privately for Neufert.

Keilmann was a member of the NSDAP as early as 1932 ; Since January 1, 1934, he was press attendant of the Aschaffenburg NSDAP local group , on March 12, 1935, he also submitted an “application for an ID card for pol. Head ".

After a three-year traineeship at the Aschaffenburg Building Department , he joined the building department of the Reich Air Force in April 1936 . His first place of work was Hörnum on Sylt . There he planned an officer's home and residential buildings for civil servants and officers for the Seefliegerhorst. In the fall of 1937 he was transferred to Berlin and was involved in the construction of an anti-aircraft barracks in Berlin-Lankwitz . In October 1939 he changed jobs again and was responsible for the planning and construction of the "Bosch-Siedlung" in Stahnsdorf, now a listed building , for 9 months at Brandenburgische Heimstätte GmbH . After the first phase of construction was largely completed, he moved to the private studio of Herbert Rimpl , an architect from Albert Speer's building staff, as general building inspector for the capital. The main task of Keilmann and his colleagues was to plan the south station for the world capital Germania . In addition, politically relevant competition entries were drawn (e.g. for an administrative forum in Braunschweig or buildings on the planned Berlin north-south axis).

After the war-related suspension of these plans, Keilmann worked in the "German Academy for Housing eV - Research Center of the Reich Housing Commissioner for the Achievement of Top Achievement in Housing and Settlement", which was subordinate to Robert Ley . There he was in the typing and standardization department . a. involved in the development of the makeshift home of the German Housing Fund . After a short time in the Wehrmacht in the summer of 1944, he saw the end of the war in Roigheim . There he worked as an architect for an underground production relocation for the BBC company from Mannheim , which manufactured submarine drives.

After going through the denazification process twice (1947 and 1948), he was appointed as an architect in the building department of the city of Bochum in the autumn of 1950 by Clemens Massenberg . In the following 4 years Keilmann had his most important creative phase. Of the six central public buildings of the new eastern Bochum center (Stadtbad (demolished), Stadtwerkehochhaus, Arbeitsamt (demolished), vocational school for boys, main train station, administration and business academy ) he designed in 1952 both the Stadtwerke Hochhaus, which was created using the new steel frame construction, as well as the administration and business academy, which with its cafeteria tract to the west represented an optical closure of the central city center against the following residential developments. Both buildings are now a listed building.

In 1954, Keilmann became a civil servant and was initially proposed for promotion to the city building council. After another review of his degree - the graduate architect (Dipl. Arch.) Acquired in Weimar was awarded the Dipl.-Ing. (FH), the appointment was withdrawn by the city's personnel committee and Keilmann was appointed city architect. He remained in this position until his retirement in July 1972. As a group leader, up to three employees were subordinate to him. In the period between 1961 and 1966 there are no indications of any noteworthy design work; only in the last five years before his retirement did he appear again with a large number of designs for urban buildings.

As an architect in the building construction department of the city of Bochum, Keilmann made a considerable contribution to the cityscape between 1950 and 1972. In addition to his main works, the Stadtwerkehochhaus and the administration and business academy, there are a large number of schools (including a newcomer school, Rosenberg school, extension of the Goetheschule) and several mourning halls (Stiepel, Dahlhausen, Gehrhe and Havkenscheid). He also planned the town hall meeting room and the construction of the viewing platform in the tower of Blankenstein Castle (Hattingen) . Ferdinand Keilmann died on September 7, 1979 in Bochum, leaving behind his wife and four sons.

Executed buildings (selection)

  • Residence for Dr. Mackenstein, Klein-Ostheim 1928
  • Interior construction of the infant home, Würzburg 1928
  • Perspectives and extension drawings of the student house, Jena 1930
  • Expansion drawings and stairs to the Ernst Neufert residential building, Gelmeroda , 1930
  • Settlement on the outskirts of 44 semi-detached houses with eaves, as the first construction phase of the later Strietwaldsiedlung in Aschaffenburg in 1933
  • War memorial in the magnolia grove of the Aschaffenburg Schöntal, so-called Hunters Memorial, together with Otto Gentil , 1936 (removed in 1946)
  • Seefliegerhorst officers' home, Hörnum (Sylt) 1936
  • Residential buildings at Seefliegerhorst, Hörnum (Sylt) 1937
  • Flak barracks double farm building, Berlin-Lankwitz 1938
  • Bosch settlement, Stahnsdorf 1939
  • Wagner residence, Birkenau an der Bergstrasse 1946
  • Mourning hall cemetery, Roigheim 1947
  • Town hall meeting room , Bochum 1950
  • Stadtwerke Hochhaus , Bochum 1952
  • Building of the Administration and Business Academy, Bochum 1952
  • Tomb for Clemens Massenberg, main cemetery, Bochum 1954
  • St. Antonius primary school, Bochum 1955
  • Reconstruction of the theater-restaurant, Schauspielhaus, Bochum 1956
  • Böckenberg elementary school, Bochum-Grumme 1958
  • Extension of the new school , Bochum 1959
  • Redesign and renovation of the Stadtpark restaurant, Bochum 1960
  • Mourning hall, Bochum-Stiepel 1967
  • Municipal company building in Markstrasse, Bochum 1969
  • Blankenstein castle ruin viewing platform , Hattingen 1970
  • Rosenberg School, Bochum 1971
  • Extension of the Goetheschule , Bochum 1971
  • Havkenscheid mourning hall, main cemetery, Bochum 1973–74 (execution time)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2011 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.architektur-geschichte.de
  2. ↑ Knut Stegmann: Bochum: Mourning Hall East on the central cemetery Freilrafendamm, Feldmark 107. In: Denkmalpflege in Westfalen 2015, Issue 1, pp. 42–45. ( online as a PDF document with approx. 0.5 MB )
personal data
SURNAME Keilmann, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keilmann, Ferdinand Johann Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH 7th September 1979
Place of death Bochum