Friedrich Bergmann (architect)

Friedrich Otto Bergmann (born March 5, 1890 in Chemnitz , † February 15, 1960 in Leipzig ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Bergmann first attended the trade school in Chemnitz until 1910 and studied construction at the Dresden University of Technology from 1911 to 1914 . He completed his studies with a diploma. From 1915 to 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War .

From 1921 Bergmann was the owner of an architecture office and worked as a scientific assistant in the structural engineering department of the Dresden University of Technology. In 1922 he married Charlotte Wagner. Two years later , the Technical University of Dresden earned him a doctorate in engineering . The title of his dissertation was Alte Sächsische Gasthöfe, a contribution to German cultural and building history . Bergmann's buildings in the 1920s include apartment buildings in Dresden-Laubegast (street Am Kirchplatz) from 1927 onwards; Bergmann also built agricultural facilities in Bärenklause and Beiersdorf.

From 1934 he worked at the Technical University of Dresden as a lecturer in Agricultural Building and was in the following year for a thesis on the agricultural building habilitation . In the same year he became a private lecturer at the university. From 1942 to 1945 he taught and researched as an adjunct professor of agricultural construction, and he was also head of the collection of agricultural construction.

Bergmann left the architecture office in 1945 and in 1946 became an agricultural expert for agriculture for the Saxon state government. He held this position until 1949. He went to Leipzig in 1950 and became a lecturer in regional planning and settlement at the University of Leipzig . The next year the Faculty of Agriculture / Horticulture at the university hired him as a scheduled professor for agricultural settlement . He held the office until 1956.

From 1922 to 1933 Bergmann belonged to the Masonic lodge Zum Golden Apple , which is why the NSDAP refused to accept him after several applications.

Fonts

• Ways and goals of the subject. Agricultural construction and settlement at the German technical universities (Dresden 1941)
• Building types for new farms (1947)
• On the question of the usefulness of the cattle stalls (1954/55)
• Paths to a realistic village architecture (1955)
• Industrial construction for cattle stalls (1958)

literature

• Bergmann, Friedrich (Otto). In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 78.
• Bergmann, Friedrich . In: Bernhard Sterra et al .: Dresden and its architects. Currents and tendencies 1900–1970. Verlag der Kunst Dresden, Husum 2011, p. 164.

Web links

• Friedrich Bergmann (architect) in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig