Günter Franke

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Günter Franke (born March 26, 1935 in Schweidnitz (today: Świdnica, Poland ); † February 27, 2011 near Berlin ) was a well-known architect in the GDR .

After training as a draftsman and completing a civil engineering degree, Franke had held a leading position at VEB Industrieprojektierung (Ipro) in Berlin since the late 1950s. He did not acquire his diploma as an architect until 1974 at the University of Architecture and Construction in Weimar.

In 1956 he was involved with Rudolf Knippel , Karlheinz Reitzig and Horst Schoebel in the construction of the BVB repair hall in Berlin-Weißensee . Since 1964 Franke worked together with Fritz Dieter and Werner Ahrend in the collective building the Berlin television tower . In 1974 the peace observatory in Brandenburg an der Havel, which is now a listed building, was built according to his plans. In the mid-1980s, Franke was working on the expansion of Berlin-Schönefeld Airport . From 1984 Günter Franke designed the planned new building for the Hans Otto Theater on the Alter Markt in Potsdam , the shell of which was demolished in 1990 due to public protests in order to enable the later rebuilding of the Potsdam City Palace. In the 1990s he was primarily involved in building car dealerships.

Franke had built one of the few architect houses in GDR architectural history in Eichwalde near Berlin, a Nurdach house based on the Scandinavian model. His extensive estate is scattered in private hands.

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SURNAME Franke, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweidnitz
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2011
Place of death near Berlin