Günther Marschall (architect, 1913)

Günther Marschall (born April 4, 1913 in Driesen ; † August 15, 1997 in Hamburg ; full name Günther Richard August Marschall ) was a German architect and town planner .

Life

Günther Marschall's "island"

After graduating from high school in 1931 at the Staatliche Reform-Realgymnasium in Friedeburg (Neumark), Marschall studied architecture, first at the Technical University of Stuttgart and after the pre-examination at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg. In the winter semester of 1931/32 he joined the student union of the Stuttgart fraternity of Ghibellinia . Marshall concluded in 1936 in Berlin his studies as a graduate engineer from Heinrich Tessenow. He then worked as a government building supervisor ( trainee lawyer in public construction) until he was appointed government master builder ( assessor in public construction) in 1939 after passing the state examination . In 1938 he received the Schinkel badge for designing a hotel on the Long Bridge in Potsdam and in 1939 the Schinkel Prize for designing an embassy building. From 1939 to 1942 he was the leading architect in the Oberleutensdorf housing development project for the Brüx hydrogenation works of the Hermann Göring Reichswerke . In 1942 he was called up for military service and was seriously ill as a result of an injury from late 1944 to 1946. From 1947 to 1951 he was assistant to Hans Högg and Werner Hebebrand at the chair for urban planning at the Technical University of Hanover . In 1948 he was in Hanover with the work "The History of the reconstruction of destroyed cities," the doctor -Ingenieur doctorate . Since his habilitation in 1951 (habilitation thesis: “Pedestrian Paths in the Inner City”), he taught at the Technical University of Hanover as a private lecturer. Due to an expert competition - other participants were: Werner Hebebrand, Konrad Rühl, Hans Scharoun and Karl Selg - Marschall became a freelance urban planner for Marl from 1953 to the end of 1965. For this task he ended his teaching activity at the Technical University of Hanover in the winter semester of 1956. In 1959 he was appointed a permanent member of the German Academy for Urban Development. Until 1979 he worked as a freelance architect and urban planner. He was an urban planning consultant for the municipality of Voerde / Niederrhein and the city of Barmstedt (Holstein). In 1974 the state of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded him the title of professor.

In the 1960s and 1970s was in Marl the artificial city center "Marler Stern" with town hall, residential towers and shopping center created in an open field. Marschall planned this new city center and constructed the "island", in which the Adolf Grimme Institute is located today , as a bright atrium made of glass, steel and clinker .

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Buildings and competition designs (selection)

• 1947: Competition design for the reconstruction of the city center of Kassel (1st prize)
• 1950: Constructa Hannover (together with Werner Hebebrand and Walter Schlempp)
• 1951: Competition design for the ECA competition Bremen (together with Werner Hebebrand and Schlempp, 1st prize)
• 1951: Residential complex Lonauer Straße, Herzberg (Harz)
• 1953–1954: home of the education center of the city of Marl , called "insel"
• 1955: Competition design in the urban development competition Möllner Landstrasse in Hamburg-Billstedt (1st prize)
• 1955: Washingtonallee housing estate in Hamburg-Horn
• 1957: Möllner-Landstrasse residential complex in Hamburg-Billstedt
• 1957: Breddenkamp settlement in Marl (federal demonstrative building project)
• 1958: Brüderstraße housing estate in Marl
• 1958: St. Matthew's Church in Gelsenkirchen-Buer
• 1961: District center in Gelsenkirchen-Hassel with St. Luke's Church
• 1963: August Dörr vocational school in Marl
• 1964: Indoor swimming pool in Marl
• 1965: Hamburg-Volksdorf waterworks
• 1965: Ovelheider-Weg and Marl-Drewer housing developments in Marl (federal demonstrative building project)
• 1966: Speech therapy school and school for spastic-paralyzed children in Hamburg
• 1966: Kampstrasse elementary school in Marl
• 1968: Rowing Academy Ratzeburg, City of Ratzeburg (Holstein)
• 1969: International Youth Center Ratzeburg, City of Ratzeburg (Holstein)
• 1968: Commercial school center at the Berliner Tor in Hamburg
• 1968: Marschall assembly group with around 500 apartments in the New Town of Wulfen (partial dismantling from 2007)
• 1968–1969: Reconstruction and expansion of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Representation in Bonn
• 1969: Redevelopment of the city of Ratzeburg
• 1970: Sea water wave swimming pool and spa center Borkum (together with others)
• 1971: Bochum University of Applied Sciences
• 1972: Supply center of the Münster University Hospital

Fonts

• On the history of the rebuilding of destroyed cities. Hanover 1947 (dissertation, mach.)
• Pedestrian walkways in the city center. Hanover 1951 (habilitation thesis, mach.)
• Marl - example of a modern city foundation. In: Austrian Society for the Promotion of Regional Research and Regional Planning, Issue 4/57, 1957
• Urban planning problems - planning the city of Marl. In: International seminars of the European Exchange Service eV, Frankfurt 1957
• The goals of planning. In: Marl - Birth of a Big City, (Ed.) Justus Buekschmitt, Hamburg 1958
• The foundations of the new city. In: Building is everyone's thing, publication of the Dortmund Talks, 3rd conference, Essen 1959
• Big city education in the industrial development area. In: Big City Education in Industrial Development Areas - The Example of Marl, Contributions and Studies by the Institute for Settlements and Housing of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster, (Ed.) HJ Seraphim, Cologne-Braunsfeld 1960
• City map and green using the example of Marl. In: Marl - Mosaik in Grün, Marl 1963
• Paracelsus Clinic and city map. In: Marl Paracelsus Clinic, (Ed.) Heinz Marquardt, City of Marl, Marl 1964
• Urban core renewal with major interventions in the old substance, in: Baumeister 11, (Ed.) Paulhans Peters, Munich 1969
• Voerde needs a city center. In: Heimatkalender Kreis Dinslaken - Yearbook 1971, Dinslaken 1971
• Trends and changes in housing and town planning - experiences of a planner. In: Property - Rent, Writings for Social Ecology 15 of the Ruhr University Bochum, (Ed.) Jürgen HB Heuer, Bochum 1975

literature

• Bruno E. Werner: New Building in Germany, Munich 1952
• Justus Buekschmitt: The future face of the cosmopolitan city of Hamburg, Hamburg 1958
• Otto Kindt, single-family row houses, Stuttgart 1961
• Gretl Hoffmann: Travel Guide to Modern Architecture, Stuttgart 1968
• Ralf Lange: Hamburg. Reconstruction and re-planning 1943–1963. Langewiesche publishing house, Königstein im Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-4610-2 . (including a short biography)
• Willibald Reichertz: East Germans as lecturers at the Technical University of Hanover (1831–1956). In: Ostdeutsche Familienkunde , Volume XVIII, Volume 55, Issue 3/2007, ISSN  0472-190X , pp. 109–120.

Web links

Commons : Günther Marschall  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lukas Church in Gelsenkirchen-Hassel
• Marshal assembly group in Dorsten-Wulfen
• Literature by and about Günther Marschall in the catalog of the German National Library
• Architecture database TU Dortmund

Individual evidence

1. ^ Well-known Ghibellines - Stuttgarter Burschenschaft Ghibellinia . In: Stuttgarter Burschenschaft Ghibellinia . ( ghibellinen.de [accessed October 18, 2018]).