Fritz Behrendt (architect)

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Fritz Behrendt (born March 30, 1877 in Königsberg ; † 1941 or 1967 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) was a German architect and urban planner .

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Behrendt was born as the son of the dentist Simon Behrendt (* 1838) and his wife Selma b. Kanter (1857–1923) born in Königsberg. He came from a Jewish family (his grandfather Joseph Behrendt was a member of the Chewra Kadischa ). He married Marie Stranz (1886–1961) around 1906 in Berlin. The couple had four children, Peter Paul (* 1907 in Berlin-Steglitz; † 1990 in Buenos Aires, Argentina), Charlotte Johanna Martha "Lotte", married Carrive (* 1909 in Breslau; † 2002 in France), Lisbeth "Liesl" , married Mayer (* 1916 in Breslau; † 2002 in Lima, Peru) and M.

Behrendt studied at the Technical University of Charlottenburg and at the Technical University of Munich , a. a. with Friedrich von Thiersch . At the beginning of the 20th century he worked as a freelance architect, he built a. a. a villa for the art collector Carl Sachs (1868–1943) in Breslau- Kleinburg . In spring 1904 he was appointed government master builder ( Assessor of the building trade). In 1909 he was hired by the Wroclaw City Council, later promoted to building inspector and then to building councilor. After the First World War he was head of the city expansion office of the city of Wroclaw (city planning director), which coordinated the planned incorporation and development of the neighboring rural communities and the city of Deutsch-Lissa . On March 1, 1928 he became a councilor without portfolio in the magistrate chosen the city of Wroclaw. On April 18, 1929, he was appointed to the post of City Planning Council, which he held until January 31, 1934 ( law on the rebuilding of the Reich ).

In 1939 Behrendt emigrated to Argentina with his wife and three of his adult children. The daughter Lotte stayed in Europe; in 1934 she married the French surrealist and Kafka translator Jean Carrive from Bordeaux.

In his role as a construction officer, Behrendt designed public buildings, mainly school buildings. The duties and powers of the city building council also included overseeing all construction projects in the city. Research into the archive shows that Behrendt personally checked more important building plans and provided them with green entries . For example, he cut down the southern tower of the post office on Klosterstrasse. Furthermore, the five-storey version of the high-rise building for the Werkbundsiedlung in Breslau planned by Adolf Rading goes back to his intervention. The Werkbund exhibition itself took place under heavy resistance from Behrendt.

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Buildings (selection)

Elementary school on Liegnitzer Strasse (now ul. Słubicka ) in Wroclaw
  • 1904: Israelite orphanage in Königsberg
  • 1908: Country house for the publisher Hermann Ullstein (1875–1943) in Berlin-Grunewald, Tanusstraße 7 (executed by the construction company Joseph Fränkel )
  • 1910–1912: Primary school on Brockauer Strasse in Breslau (with H. Froböse and J. Nathanson, project manager Max Berg ); Today General Education Lyceum No. 4, ulica S. Świstackiego 12
  • 1911–1912: Extension of the Johannesgymnasium in Breslau, Paradiesstrasse (rear building) (today Maria Dąbrowska Comprehensive School for Economics and Administration, ulica Stanisława Worcella 3)
  • 1913: Pavilion of Cemetery Art at the Centenary Exhibition in Breslau (next to the Centennial Hall; dismantled after the exhibition ended)
  • 1916–1922: Gerhart Hauptmann Secondary School in Breslau, Yorkstrasse (today used as a youth hostel, ulica Jemiołowa 46–48)
  • 1926: Design for an administration building and a fire station in Breslau, Am Ohlauufer (not executed)
  • four other elementary schools: Liegnitzer Straße (today ulica Słubicka), Charlottenstraße (today ulica Krucza), Klodnitzstraße (today ulica Kłodnicka) and Menzelstraße (today ulica Sztabowa)
  • 1928: urban planning of the Klein-Tschansch settlement (with Heinrich Knipping)
  • 1928–1929: Nursing home in Breslau, Fürstenstraße / Triftstraße (partially rebuilt after 1945, now a student residence, ulica Grunwaldzka / Sopocka)
  • 1930: Student harbor and restaurant pavilion on the bank in Wroclaw (today Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 24; preserved)

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literature

  • Konstanze Beelitz, Niclas Förster: Breslau / Wrocław. Modern architecture. Wasmuth, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8030-0660-0 , p. 170.
  • Iwona Bińkowska, Marzena Smolak: Nieznany portret miasta. Muzeum Historyczne we Wrocławiu, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka we Wrocławiu, Wrocław 1994, ISBN 83-901314-2-0 .
  • Agnieszka Gryglewska: Budynki wrocławskich szkół epoki wilhelmińskiej. In: Jerzy Rozpędowski (ed.): Architektura Wrocławia. Tom 4. Gmach. Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wrocławskiej, Wrocław 1998, ISBN 83-7085-393-5 , pp. 246-250.
  • Jerzy Ilkosz, Beate Störtkuhl (eds.): Wieżowce Wrocławia 1919–1932. Wrocław 1997, ISBN 83-908067-0-3 , pp. 160–161, 210–202.
  • Wanda Kononowicz: Wrocław. Kierunki rozwoju urbanistycznego w okresie międzywojennym. Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wrocławskiej, Wrocław 1997, ISBN 83-7085-288-2 , pp. 47-49, p. 99.
  • Agnieszka Zabłocka-Kos: Osiedle Księże Małe. In: Jan Harasimowicz (Ed.): Atlas architektury Wrocławia. Tom II, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 1998, ISBN 83-7023-679-0 , p. 137, p. 145.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kononowicz, p. 99.
  2. ↑ Since Behrendt emigrated to Argentina on the eve of the Second World War , his place of death in Buenos Aires around 1967 is more likely, see: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Behrendt_Kanter-1
  3. ↑ wikitree.com
  4. ↑ wikitree.com
  5. ↑ Jutta Bechstein: L'oeuvre de Kafka à Bordeaux, ou la vie de Jean et Charlotte Carrive à la Girarde. In: Alain Ruiz (ed.): Présence de l'Allemagne à Bordeaux: Du siècle de Montaigne à la veille de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, Talence, France 1997, p. 223.
  6. ↑ mundia.com
  7. ↑ Charlotte Carrive http://www.ajpn.org/personne-Charlotte-Carrive-7777.html
  8. ↑ http://www.schlesischesammlungen.eu/Interaktiv-Karte-Schlesiens/Touristische-Routen/Ein-Spaziergang-durch-Kleinburg-Borek-Sammlungen-der-Breslauer-Juden - accessed on November 19, 2012.
  9. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . Volume 24, 1904, No. 29 (from April 9, 1904), p. 185.
  10. ↑ a b Small statistical pocket book for the city of Breslau: 1932 . Self-published by the Statistical Office of the City of Breslau, Breslau 1933, p. 80 ( jelenia-gora.pl [accessed September 14, 2013]).
  11. ↑ Bechstein, p. 223.
  12. ↑ Beate Störtkuhl: The living and workshop exhibition in Breslau "WuWA" in Breslau 1929. In: Reports and research. 3/1995, pp. 107-176. ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / books.google.pl
  13. ^ Nils Aschenbeck: Modern architecture in East Prussia . 1991, p. 10 ( ostpreussen.de [PDF; accessed December 30, 2012]).
  14. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List , accessed on November 19, 2012.
  15. ↑ Planning documents in the Wroclaw Architecture Museum ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ma.wroc.pl
predecessor Office successor
Hugo Althoff Wroclaw City Planning Council (building construction)
1929–1934 		Rudolf Kühn
personal data
SURNAME Behrendt, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, town planner and building officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1941 or around 1967
Place of death unsure: Buenos Aires