Günter Wilhelm

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article or the following section is not adequately provided with supporting documents ( e.g. individual evidence ). Information without sufficient evidence could be removed soon. Please help Wikipedia by researching the information and including good evidence.

Günter Wilhelm (born April 8, 1908 in Neckartenzlingen ; † November 13, 2004 ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

After graduating from high school, Wilhelm did a construction internship. His wish to study at the Bauhaus could not be fulfilled. Instead, he began his architecture studies at the Technical University of Stuttgart and deepened the technical subjects. In 1928/1929 he completed an internship in the Gerhard Graubner office in Stuttgart , where he worked on the interior design of the local business school and the Isla Hotel in Arosa (Switzerland). In 1929/1930 he switched to Heinrich Tessenow at the Technical University of Berlin for a short time . Back in Stuttgart, he passed the main diploma examination in August 1932.

From 1933 he worked in the office of the Stuttgart architect Karl Ellsässer and worked on a factory building there. In the period from 1934 to 1940 Günter Wilhelm worked as a freelance architect in Stuttgart, from 1934 to 1936 at the same time as an assistant at the chair for design at the Technical University of Stuttgart with Paul Bonatz . In World War II military service and was followed by a prisoner of war (1940-1946).

From 1946 Wilhelm worked again as a freelance architect in Stuttgart.

In 1946 he received a teaching position for design at the Technical University of Stuttgart. From 1948 to 1973 Wilhelm was Professor of Building Construction II and Design. Wilhelm played a key role in establishing the Baden-Württemberg regional group of the German Werkbund , which was newly founded in 1948 . Wilhelm became widely known primarily in the field of exemplary school buildings, which he developed from 1954–1965 as a member of the school construction commission of the Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA) and from 1963–1972 as head of the school construction institute at the University of Stuttgart.

After 1945, Günter Wilhelm consistently followed his path of an absolutely objective, constructive understanding of architecture down to the last detail and thus became one of the outstanding Stuttgart architects and architecture teachers of the post-war years. Günter Wilhelm himself acted rather quietly, but was of great influence on generations of architects.

After his retirement in 1973, he soon retired from office work. He ran his office from 1962 to 1974 in partnership with Jürgen Schwarz.

One of Wilhelm's most important buildings is the Silcherschule am Gänseberg in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen (1950–1953), which is characterized by its age-matched buildings and the classrooms planned for new forms of teaching. She was awarded the Paul Bonatz Prize in 1959 . The two university skyscrapers KI and K II , which Wilhelm executed together with his professor colleagues Rolf Gutbier and Curt Siegel , also received the Paul Bonatz Prize in 1963. Wilhelm also rebuilt the art building on Schloßplatz , which had been destroyed in the war, together with Paul Bonatz (1956–1961) in Stuttgart and added an extension. Günter Wilhelm particularly valued his Museum Hauff in Holzmaden , a private natural history museum with prehistoric finds that he showed in soft daylight.

His estate is kept by the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering in Karlsruhe. An exhibition of the archive in the Architektur-Galerie am Weißenhof in 1998 gave the first glimpses of the entire work.

Buildings and projects (selection)

Until 1945:

  • 1932: Community school in Stuttgart , study draft
  • 1932: Main post office in Nuremberg , diploma thesis
  • 1934/35: House Paul in Esslingen
  • 1936–1939: Graf Zeppelin Research Station in Stuttgart-Ruit , partially executed (with R. Büchner)
  • 1936–1940: Chair for Aviation in Stuttgart-Ruit , partially executed (with R. Büchner)
  • 1938/39: Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Metal Research in Stuttgart , interior design and workshop building
  • 1938–1940: Scheer & Co. factory in Stuttgart-Feuerbach , extension
  • 1938–1940: Schmid House in Stuttgart-Heumaden

After 1945:

  • 1948: BBC factory development "Auf dem Sand" in Mannheim-Käfertal , research community building u. Living (Stuttgart), competition
  • 1948/49: "Ground plan types for apartments in transverse wall construction", Forschungsgemeinschaft Bauen u. Living (Stuttgart), competition
  • 1949: "Housing", GdF Wüstenrot, competition (with Sigloch)
  • 1949–1951: Dr. Finckh in Esslingen , extension 1955/56
  • 1949–1951: Village school in Aichschieß (with K. Franz )
  • 1950: Elementary school Hohewartschule in Stuttgart-Feuerbach (with H. Deilmann ), competition
  • 1950: Primary school in Esslingen-Wäldenbronn (with H. Deilmann ), competition 1st prize
  • 1950: "The two-class rural school", trade union for education and science, competition
  • 1950–1953: Day care center in Leonberg-Eltingen (with E. Heinle )
  • 1950–1953: Silcher School on Gänsberg in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen (with E. Heinle and K. Franz )
  • 1950–1953: Schools on Lammerberg in Tailfingen , competition (with E. Heinle ) and execution (with K. Häge)
  • 1951: School in Altensteig , competition
  • 1952: Rauner School in Kirchheim / Teck (with B. Lambart ), purchase competition
  • 1952: Secondary school in Erlangen (with K. Franz ), competition 2nd prize
  • 1952/53: Max Planck Institute for Metal Research in Stuttgart , extension building
  • 1954: Eberhardt-Ludwig-Gymnasium in Stuttgart , 3rd prize competition
  • 1954/55: House on the slope in Esslingen (with K. Franz )
  • 1955–1960: Hospital in Tailfingen (with A. Wollensak), competition and execution
  • 1957–1960: Institute for Aero- and Gasdynamics of the TH Stuttgart in Stuttgart (with S. Rösemann)
  • 1958–1961: Art building in Stuttgart , reconstruction and expansion (with S. Rösemann and J. Schwarz)
  • 1958–1964: Collegiate building I and II of the TH Stuttgart in Stuttgart (in collaboration with R. Gutbier and C. Siegel )
  • 1958–1962: Indoor swimming pool in Flensburg (with J. Schwarz), competition and execution
  • 1959–1962: Indoor swimming pool in Kirchheim / Teck (with J. Schwarz and K. Häge), competition and execution

From 1962 - in partnership with Jürgen Schwarz:

  • 1963–1966: secondary school in Bad Boll
  • 1963–1970: Town hall in Sindelfingen , competition and execution
  • 1966: Town hall in Aalen , competition and execution
  • 1966–1975: Montessori school center in Cologne , competition and execution
  • 1967–1971: Museum Hauff in Holzmaden
  • 1967–1972: High school in Tailfingen
  • 1972–1976: Comprehensive school in Stuttgart-Neugereut
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelm, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Neckartenzlingen
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 2004