Friedrich Berndt (architect)

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Friedrich Berndt (born May 26, 1903 in Bessingen , Holzminden district , † April 4, 1983 in Braunschweig ) was a German architect who planned and built numerous church buildings in the Braunschweig Evangelical Lutheran Church after the Second World War .

Life

Berndt first attended a grammar school and studied architecture from 1922 to 1927 at the Technical University of Braunschweig . He then found a job in an architecture office in Chemnitz . He received his doctorate in 1931 at the Technical University of Braunschweig, where he 1929-1934 research assistant at the Institute for Building Construction worked. From 1934 to 1945 he was responsible for the planning and implementation of a number of airfield projects in the service of the Air Force's construction administration .

After the Second World War, Berndt worked as a church building councilor for the Braunschweig Evangelical Lutheran regional church from 1948 . As the founder and head of the Braunschweig City Church Building Office until 1971, he played a key role in the reconstruction of the Braunschweig city churches and the construction of numerous new churches in the Braunschweig regional church. In 1952 he was appointed to the Oberlandeskirchenrat. In addition to these activities, he also taught at the Technical University from 1946 to 1966, and in 1953 he was appointed honorary professor. He has published several scientific articles and papers.

Awards

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Fonts (selection)

  • Stucco sculpture in early medieval Saxony . Schulze, Hanover, September 8, 1932, OCLC 252423082 (dissertation at the TH Braunschweig).
  • Braunschweig Cathedral and Burgplatz (=  large monuments . H. 130). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1950, OCLC 73256128 .
  • The S [ank] t Blasius Cathedral in Braunschweig (=  large architectural monuments . H. 242). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1970, OCLC 5516253 .

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Jutta Gremmler: Berndt, Friedrich, Prof. Dr. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 54-55 .
  2. ^ Dietrich Kuessner: The history of the Brunswick city churches in the 50s . Lecture in the Petri community on October 30, 2009.
  3. August 21, 1964. In: Stadtchronik Braunschweig
  4. Birgit Maurer: Dankeskirche Schuntersiedlung. In: kirchengemeinde-die-bruecke.de. Retrieved September 1, 2015 .