Franz Kaym

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Franz Kaym (born June 20, 1891 in Moosbrunn , Lower Austria ; † February 12, 1949 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect .

The farmer's son Kaym attended the public school in Vienna, the secondary school and then from 1905 to 1909 the structural engineering department of the Vienna 1 State Trade School. He also completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and mason. From 1910 to 1913 he studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Otto Wagner , at the same time he worked in Wagner's office as a technical draftsman. From 1916 to 1918 he served in the First World War , after which he formed a long-term working group with Alfons Hetmanek .

Kaym / Hetmanek were considered to be experts in housing developments on the basis of their study “Housing for people, today and tomorrow”, published in 1919, and their office received relevant orders from the municipality of Vienna. In the study, influenced by Adolf Loos , the architectural duo advocated the single-family home as the healthiest and cheapest form of living , based on the example of the English garden city movement . With funding from the public sector, cheap and standardized terraced houses should be built in series. Later, however, Kaym / Hetmanek also designed community buildings of the popular housing palace type . The working group was dissolved in 1935 during the Great Depression.

In the era of National Socialism was Kaym Member of NSDAP and SS . From 1938 he planned with the architect Frank Schläger (1894–1978), among other things, industrial plants for the Nazi armaments industry in Moravia, Slovakia and Hungary. After the Second World War he was temporarily banned from working.

literature

  • Franz Kaym, Arthur Roessler : Franz Kaym, Alfons Hetmanek, Architects, ZV Elbemühl, Vienna 1931, 64 pages.

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SURNAME Kaym, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Moosbrunn
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1949
Place of death Vienna