Günter Kleinjohann

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Günter Kleinjohann (* 13. October 1926 in Dortmund ) is a German architect and emeritus professor of architecture of the University of Trier .

Life and education

After youth and school at the Bismarck-Realgymnasium in Dortmund, participation in the Second World War (1943–1945) as a flak helper and Abitur (1947), Kleinjohann studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and at the RWTH Aachen under Rudolf Schwarz , Hans Schwippert from 1948 to 1953 and Rudolf Steinbach .

After graduating as Dipl.-Ing. Kleinjohann started at RWTH in 1957 in the Rudolf Schwarz architectural office in Cologne and worked closely with Rudolf and Maria Schwarz . In 1960, Kleinjohann was appointed lecturer at the State Engineering School for Construction in Trier and taught at what later became the University of Applied Sciences , now Trier University , from 1972 to 2016 as a professor of design and building history. From 1960 to 2000 Kleinjohann ran an architecture office in Trier with which he won numerous architecture competitions and designed and built churches, community centers and kindergartens as well as residential and administrative buildings in Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and Saarland . Kleinjohann's most important buildings include the administration building of Stadtwerke Trier , the hillside development "Auf der Hill" in Trier with 75 single-family houses, which are located around small squares, and the parish and community center with the church "Christkönig" in Saarlouis-Roden (1966 –1968), which is considered a milestone in concrete modernism (" brutalism ") of the 1960s and is a listed building.

Voluntary work

Kleinjohann was a member of numerous competition juries and advisory boards, including a. In the Episcopal Building Commission of the Diocese of Trier , the Monument Council of the City of Trier, member of the Association of German Architects (BDA) , from 1977 to 2002 board member of the Rhineland-Palatinate Chamber of Architects for the constituency of Trier and since 2001 honorary member of the Rhineland-Palatinate Chamber of Architects. In 1989 Kleinjohann's work as an architect was honored with the State Prize for Architecture and Fine Arts of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Buildings (selection)

Church with bell tower Christ the King in Saarlouis-Roden
Psychology building University of Trier in Trier-Tarforst

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ #SOSBrutalism. Retrieved February 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ KOPFMUNTER: Saarlouis, Catholic churches. February 14, 2019, accessed February 14, 2019 .
  3. ^ Gerold Reker: Professor Günter Kleinjohann on his 90th birthday. Retrieved on February 14, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Concrete monsters saved - Christkönig day care center in Saarlouis. Retrieved February 14, 2019 .
  5. ^ BauNetz Media GmbH: Children and concrete - church renovation by Flos and K in Saarlouis. July 5, 2018, accessed February 14, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Do you know ... the box houses? - 16 BEFORE. Retrieved on February 13, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Kleinjohann, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and professor of architecture at Trier University of Applied Sciences (Trier)
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund