Georg Buchner (architect)
Georg W. Buchner (born January 17, 1890 ; † January 13, 1971 ) was a German architect .
Around 1912 Buchner studied architecture with Theodor Fischer at the Technical University of Munich . During the National Socialist dictatorship, Buchner designed numerous monumental district forums with an administrative center and parade ground (e.g. for Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm , Starnberg or Ingolstadt ), a Thingstätte at the Theresienwiese (together with German Bestelmeyer ) as well as a Nazi leadership school in Kranzberg and an oversized one Gau training castle in Starnberg, which however was not realized. The relocation of Munich Central Station to the west, which Hermann Giesler later took up, also appeared in a design by Buchner as early as 1929. Other useful Nazi buildings by Buchner, such as the HJ homes Berg and Miltenberg, as well as numerous new churches were built.
Nevertheless Buchner was the denazification process in his own defense, to have been excluded from party buildings by virtue of belonging to the Catholic Church from creation.
After the end of the war, Buchner was initially in discussion for planning a memorial for the victims of the concentration camp in Dachau , which was to be erected in the summer of 1945. But when the architect's Nazi past came to light, the US military government quickly abandoned this plan.
Work (selection)
- 1923/24: Train station and company building in Bad Tölz
- 1923/24: Catholic parish church of the Suffering of Christ in Obermenzing near Munich
- 1923/24: Station building in Lenggries
- 1926–1928 (?): Design for a Catholic parish church in Oberschleißheim near Munich
- 1926–1929: Children's home in Westerham
- 1929/30: Post office on Fraunhoferstrasse in Munich
- 1930/31: Post office in Munich-Moosach
- 1932/33: St. Albert Catholic Church in Freimann near Munich
- 1932/33: Catholic Church of St. Mary of the Seven Sorrows in Unterstein near Berchtesgaden
- 1932/33: Catholic parish church St. Maria in Unterschönau
- 1932–1934: Catholic parish church of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt in Treuchtlingen
- 1933/34: Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche and rectory in Graefelfing
- 1934: Citizens' Hospital in Hammelburg
- 1934/35: Catholic parish church St. Benedikt in Gauting (together with Karl Kergl )
- 1934/35: District hospital in Hammelburg
- 1934/35: Dachau town hall
- 1935: Kohlenbergkapelle in Fuchsstadt
- 1936: Hammelburg town hall
- 1936: Buildings of the "Felsenkeller" brewery in Hammelburg
- 1936/37: District savings bank Hammelburg
- 1938: Sparkasse in Bad Kissingen
- 1939: Sparkasse in Eggenfelden
- 1954/55: Thermal bath in Bad Füssing
- 1955: Catholic parish church of St. Johann Baptist in Lochham , new building including the old church as a transverse building
- 1960/61: Kurhaus buildings in Bad Wiessee
literature
- Lothar Altmann: Georg W. Buchner and his church buildings in the Munich area. In: Amperland. Local history quarterly for the districts of Dachau, Freising and Fürstenfeldbruck. 37, 2001, pp. 450-453.
- Otto Buchner: The architect Georg Buchner. In: Katholische Pfarrgemeinde Leiden Christi (ed.): Parish on the outskirts. Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of the Parish Church of the Suffering of Christ Munich 1999.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sabine Klotz: "I myself had never dealt with party-political tendencies." Case studies on denazification and arbitration proceedings by architects in Bavaria. In: Winfried Nerdinger (Ed.): Architecture of the child prodigies. Awakening and displacement in Bavaria 1945–1960. Pustet, Salzburg 2005, pp. 32–43.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buchner, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Buchner, Georg W. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1890 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1971 |