Georg Funk

Georg Funk (born April 3, 1901 in Dresden ; † January 13, 1990 there ) was a German architect and town planner .

Life

Georg Funk studied architecture at the TH Dresden from 1920 to 1926 . He then worked in the city planning office in Chemnitz . In 1935 he was appointed special commissioner for architecture at the Saxon Ministry of the Interior for the reorganization of urban development in the Aue and Schneeberg area. A year later he took over the management of town planning in Chemnitz and was appointed senior building officer.

In this role, after the end of the Second World War, he also carried out the first plans for the reconstruction of the destroyed city. From 1946 he was City Planning Director of Chemnitz. In 1949 Georg Funk was appointed professor for building law and building regulations at the TH Dresden. In the years that followed, Funk stood for the “careful urban development and redevelopment” of Dresden within the historical urban structures. In 1954, his work for the "East-West Main Line" in Dresden won first prize in a competition.

Georg Funk was involved in the holistic planning of the TH Dresden campus after the end of the Second World War. With architects like Walter Henn , Karl Wilhelm Ochs and Heinrich Rettig , buildings like the Willers-Bau or the Trefftz-Bau were created .

Georg Funk retired in 1968. He died in Dresden in 1990, his grave is in the Trinitatisfriedhof there .

literature

• Institute for Urban Development at the TU Dresden (Ed.): Professor Dipl.-Ing. Georg Funk . Institute for Urban Development at the Technical University of Dresden 1949–1968. Institute for Urban Development, Dresden 1968.
• Technical University of Dresden: Prof. (em.) Dipl.-Ing. Georg Funk - 80 years . Technical University of Dresden, Dresden 1981.
• Significant Wachwitz personalities , in: Wachwitz - history of a fishing and wine village, Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden, 2000, pp. 147–148.

Web links

• Family tradition. In: funk-bau.de. April 3, 1901, accessed January 14, 2020 .