Franz Defregger (architect)

Franz Defregger (born March 19, 1906 in Munich ; † 1950 ) was a German architect and construction clerk at the Post Building School .

Franz Defregger completed his architecture studies at the Technical University of Stuttgart and the Technical University of Munich, among others with Paul Bonatz . From 1930 to 1932 he worked in the Regensburg Post Office. In 1932 he passed the examination to become a government master builder. In 1933 he found a job at the Bayerische Siedlungs- und Landbank, for which he managed the branch in Cham and carried out a settlement project with 300 cheap small settler houses. From 1935 to 1936 he designed and implemented an air force base for the Munich air district command in Neubiberg , after which he moved to the Munich city administration .

In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht, but after three weeks he was returned to the service of the Air Force Construction Department in Gleiwitz . From 1941 to 1944 he worked for the Munich City Planning Department before he was called up for the last two years of the war. In the post-war period Defregger worked as a freelance architect in Munich, where he restored numerous residential buildings.

Work (selection)

• 1932: Post office in Wörth an der Donau (with Karl Schreiber )
• 1933–1934: Five houses for the settlement exhibition in the Ramersdorf model estate in Munich
• 300 small settler houses in Cham
• 1933–1935: Neubiberg airfield (today: University of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich )
• 1936: St. Afra housing estate in Mehring
• 1936: Residential buildings on Korbinianstrasse in Munich
• 1936–1938: SS-Hauptreitschule Munich
• 1939: Civil airfield, airfield, barrack town in Gleiwitz
• Competition draft for the Altenburg town planning