Günther Hornschuh

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Günther Hornschuh (* 1925 in Gotha / Thuringia ; † 2001 in Königswinter ) was a German architect .

Life

After the Second World War, Hornschuh studied architecture with Georg Leowald and Paul Baumgarten at the reopened University of Fine Arts ( HfBK ) in Berlin . He received his diploma in 1953, after which he worked as a freelancer in various architectural offices, and then took on a permanent position in Freiburg im Breisgau at the university building authority. He was responsible for planning the university library, canteen and college building III.

The Federal Building Directorate had convened an advisory body to expand Bonn to become the federal capital. It consisted u. a. from the architecture professors Sep Ruf , Egon Eiermann and Paul Baumgarten. In order to work out their recommendations, Ruf sent Manfred Adams , Eiermann Georg Pollich and Baumgarten Günther Hornschuh to Bonn.

After the work was completed in 1968, Adams, Hornschuh and Türler founded the A. H. T. planning group (later the Stieldorf planning group ). Hornschuh was mainly involved in competitions and executions, e.g. B. at the ministries ( Kreuzbauten in Bad Godesberg ), the houses of representatives in Bonn, the Cologne broadcasting house of the "Deutsche Welle" , the town hall in Alfter , various community centers and church buildings in the Rhein-Sieg area.

Individual evidence

  1. Architecture of the 50s 60s 70s. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .