Georg Fehleisen

Georg Fehleisen (born March 2, 1893 in Schwäbisch Hall , † November 30, 1936 in Bad Ems ) was a German architect .

Life

Fehleisen was born on March 2, 1893 as the son of the teacher and later high school professor in Tübingen, Georg Fehleisen (1855-1934). His mother, Charlotte Gös, was the daughter of the mayor of Tübingen, Julius Gös (1830-1897). From 1912 onwards, Fehleisen studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart . His studies were interrupted by his service as a soldier in World War I for the entire duration from 1914 to 1918. His teachers in Stuttgart included u. a. Paul Bonatz , who let him work in 1920 as one of twelve students in an overall urban planning for Cologne.

Through this competition, Fehleisen became known in the Rhineland and in 1921 received a job at the building construction department of the city of Duisburg . He stayed here until 1925. During this time he designed a. a. the new cemetery (forest cemetery) and the crematorium in Duisburg as well as some houses and green spaces. He is also said to have participated in the competition for the new school building in Neuwied (before 1923).

Fehleisen received his doctorate in 1925 with the architectural history dissertation "The buildings of the Alpirsbach monastery". The doctoral thesis was published by BG Teubner in 1929 in the series "Contributions to the cultural history of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance". The aim of the work was to determine the original construction plan of the Alpirsbach monastery from the perspective of an architect. Numerous drawings by Georg Fehleisen are attached to the work. His doctoral supervisor was Ernst Robert Fiechter (1875–1948), Professor of Building History, who was appointed to the Stuttgart Technical University in 1912. The second reviewer was Heinz Wetzel (1882–1945), who had taught in Stuttgart as a professor for urban planning and housing development since 1925.

From April 1925 he worked as an employee in Georg Metzendorf's office in Essen . After the suicide of Heinrich Metzendorf , the brother of Georg Metzendorf, in February 1923, the architecture office in Bensheim was continued as a branch of Georg Metzendorf and was initially headed by Joseph Winter. However, Winter recommended himself for the post of city architect in Heppenheim. In March 1927, Fehleisen was sent to Bensheim an der Bergstrasse to succeed him in the office . Fehleisen completed the projects the office had started and found new clients relatively quickly. This was the reason why he settled in Bensheim as an independent architect as early as 1928. Another reason was probably her marriage to Sibylle Regnault born in April 1928. Baroness von Oldershausen (born 1897), whom he knew from his time in Essen. Before that, Sibylle was married to Fritz Regnault from 1919; from the marriage the son Claus (* 1930; declared dead in 1969) emerged, whom the mother brought into the second marriage.

In a few years, Mehleisen designed and executed numerous structures. Among the best known are the buildings around the Deutsche Milchwerke AG (also called Fissan -Werke ) in Zwingenberg (Bergstrasse) . Fehleisen met the director, Arthur Sauer (1874–1946), as early as 1927, as Heinrich Metzendorf's office had been working for the von Sauer company since 1904. Fehleisen was the company's in-house architect until his untimely death.

The "Adolf-Hitler-Siedlung" designed by Fehleisen as well as the first construction phase of the new factory building of the Fissan works were used by the new rulers for propaganda purposes. The system was shown several times to high-ranking state guests.

Sauer also put Fehleisen in contact with the pharmaceutical Knoll works in Ludwigshafen, which resulted in further planning and construction contracts for him. Presumably through the mediation of Georg Metzendorf, a connection was established between the Fehleisen office and the Dyckerhoff cement industrial family in Mainz-Amöneburg. As a result, Fehleisen received orders for the family's houses in Mainz and Wiesbaden and for additions to the industrial facilities.

His marriage to Sibylle von Oldershausen had become problematic because of his homosexual tendencies and her partly Jewish descent. The advised divorce was carried out on May 9, 1936. Georg Fehleisen officially died on November 30, 1936 as a result of a car accident. Suspicions that this was suicide could never be completely dispelled.

plant

• 1927/1928: House Fey in Bensheim, Roonstrasse; Rudolph House in Darmstadt-Eberstadt
• 1928: Renovation of Arthur Sauer's old villa in Zwingenberg, Darmstädter Straße
• 1928: Naef House in Ober-Hambach
• 1928–1934: Factory building of Deutsche Milchwerke AG in Zwingenberg
• 1928–1932 and 1933–1935: Knoll AG building in Ludwigshafen
• 1929: Official residence of the municipal state bank in Darmstadt
• 1929/1930: House Framm in Auerbach, Ernst-Ludwig-Promenade
• 1929–1931: Guntrum house in Nierstein
• 1930: Münkler house in Bensheim, Moltkestrasse
• 1930: Design for a factory building by Wilhelm Euler, Bensheim (not carried out)
• 1930/1931: Rengers house in Wiesbaden
• 1930–1932: Houses of the Dyckerhoff family in Mainz-Amöneburg and Wiesbaden-Biebrich
• 1931–1932: Schmidt House in Heidelberg; Vistula House in Bensheim, Friedhofstrasse
• 1932: House Kling in Bensheim, Wilhelm-Euler-Straße; House Wemnz in Bensheim, Hügelstrasse
• 1932/1933: Deutsche Milchwerke AG's official residence in Zwingenberg
• 1933: Expansion of the Rineck estate
• 1933/1934: Housing development, so-called “Adolf Hitler Settlement”, owned by Deutsche Milchwerke AG in Zwingenberg, Arthur Sauer plant
• 1934: Reconstruction and expansion of the Disibodenberg estate; Friedrich House in Darmstadt
• 1934/1935: House of the Brücher-Beger family in Bensheim, Wilhelmstrasse; District savings bank in Heppenheim
• 1934/1935: New factory (1st construction phase) of Deutsche Milchwerke AG in Zwingenberg, Darmstädter Straße 34/36
• 1935: Meyer-Fehleisen house in Kirchheim unter Teck; Industrial buildings of the Dyckerhoff company in Mainz-Amöneburg
• 1935: Sanatorium of the Reichsanstalt für Arbeit Stamberg near Schriesheim
• 1935/1936: Arthur Sauer director's villas in Zwingenberg, Stuckertstrasse
• 1935–1939: Tonwerke Heppenheim (participation)
• 1936: Gölz and Glöckler houses in Kirchheim unter Teck; Andreae House in Bensheim, Ernst-Ludwig-Strasse; Carstanjen-Lange house in Bensheim, Ernst-Ludwig-Strasse; House Rauttner in Darmstadt; Tscherning House in Eberswalde; Reichenau's house in Heidelberg

Fonts

• The buildings of the Alpirsbach monastery. Dissertation, Technische Hochschule Stuttgart, 1925. Printed in 1929 by BG Teubner, Leipzig and Berlin.

literature

• Rainer Metzendorf: Georg Metzendorf 1874–1934. Darmstadt, Marburg 1994, p. 417 (and more often).
• Bernd Philipp Schröder: Georg Fehleisen and the end of the Bergstrasse architectural tradition. In: History sheets district Bergstrasse. 2003, pp. 245-287.
• Dominic E. Delarue, Thomas Kaffenberger (editor): Designing living spaces. Heinrich Metzendorf and the reform architecture on Bergstrasse. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2013, ISBN 3-88462-340-0