Friedrich Batjer

Main hall Kassel Hauptbahnhof

Platform hall Kassel main station

Friedrich-Wilhelm Bätjer (born January 18, 1910 , † June 30, 1957 ) was a German civil engineer and architect ; he worked as head of building construction at the Kassel Federal Railway Directorate.

Life

Bätjer studied architecture at the Technical University of Hanover from 1929 to 1931 and at the Technical University of Munich in the winter semester of 1931/32. During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Hanover . After the diploma examination in June 1934 in Hanover and the Great State Examination in April 1938, he spent his legal traineeship in Jüterbog , Marburg and Hanover . In 1939 he received his doctorate from the TH Hannover on Simon Louis du Ry and his country palace Hüffe (Münster 1941) and in 1940 began his career with the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Berlin. In 1942 he was transferred to the Reich Railway Directorate in Villach . He did military service from May 1943 to December 1944. From May 1945 he was again Head of Building Construction in Kassel . He was released in January 1946. After a temporary activity as a technical draftsman, he was hired again in August 1947, and from 1948 again as a department head in Kassel.

buildings

Main building of Kassel's main train station

Bätjer supplied the key designs for the new construction of Kassel's main train station . He died at the age of 47 from the long-term effects of a war injury before the station was completed.

literature

• Martin Schack: New train stations. Station building of the Deutsche Bundesbahn 1948–1973. Berlin 2004.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 10.