Friedrich Jelpke

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Friedrich Jelpke (born April 12, 1921 in Braunschweig ; † August 23, 1983 in Pod Kcirjem , Yugoslavia ) was a German architect , regional planner and university professor .

Life

Jelpke graduated from the Martino-Katharineum in Braunschweig in 1939 . He then studied architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig . After graduating in 1950, he was an assistant at the chair for urban planning at the Technical University of Braunschweig. From May 1953 to October 1955 Jelpke worked as a freelance architect. During this time he won 14 architectural competitions . In 1955 he switched to Salzgitter Wohnungs-AG, and became its Technical Director in 1958. At the same time he represented the chair for regional planning, urban development and housing at the TH Braunschweig from 1959 to 1962. In 1968 Jelpke became honorary professor and managing director of the Lower Saxony University Building Society. He was killed in a hunting accident in Yugoslavia in 1983.

buildings

Jelpke oversaw numerous public buildings, including the Göttingen Clinic and the expansion of the Universities of Oldenburg and Osnabrück . For the young city of Salzgitter , he and students from the Technical University of Braunschweig planned the satellite town of Fredenberg from 1960 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Wolfgang Benz (Ed.): Salzgitter. Past and present of a German city 1942–1992. Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-35573-0 , pp. 202-205