Georg Münter

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Georg Karl Hugo Münter (born March 17, 1900 in Hohensalza , † May 19, 1965 in Leipzig ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Münter attended grammar school in Bromberg until 1918 , where he had been working as a draftsman at the Neubauamt since 1917. From 1919 to 1923 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Danzig and the Technical University of Karlsruhe and then worked as a government building supervisor (trainee lawyer). He worked as an architect in Kaunas and in 1924 as chief architect for Otto Rudolf Salvisberg in Berlin . Münter went in 1925 as an assistant at the Chair of Urban Design at the Technische Hochschule Danzig, where he with the 1928 dissertation The history of the ideal city 1400-1700 doctorate .

From 1928 to 1929 Münter was editor-in-chief of the trade journal Der Städtebau and in 1929 chief architect of a construction company in Wroclaw , before he became self-employed as an architect in the same year. At the Technical University of Danzig he took over the chair for building construction and building construction in 1932 and worked as an architect in Danzig in 1935 and in Brzeg from 1938 . From 1941 on, Münter was banned from working for political reasons and excluded from the Reich Chamber of Culture . He was only able to return to work after the end of the Third Reich in 1945.

In 1945 he was appointed director of the State Building and Engineering School in Wismar , where he also directed the training of new teachers . From 1947 to 1954 he was the successor to the late Hans Pieper City Planning Director of Lübeck and then worked until 1957 as a research assistant at the German Building Academy in East Berlin. In 1957 he accepted a position at the Technical University of Dresden as professor for theory of architecture and building history; he succeeded Otto Schubert . From 1959 he was director of the Institute for Theory of Architecture and Building History. From 1963 to 1965, Münter was dean of the Faculty of Construction and, from 1958 to 1965, also worked as a lecturer at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Shortly after his retirement in 1965, he died after a long and serious illness.

The university archive of the Technical University of Dresden today keeps part of his estate. The Georg-Münter-Bau bears his name at the University of Wismar.

Act

In 1954, Münter went to the GDR from Lübeck. He worked at the German Building Academy in Berlin, which at that time was considered the "technical-ideological [...] central authority of the building industry in the GDR". Here he was also involved in the publication of the journal Studies for Architecture and Art Studies . At the Technical University and later Technical University of Dresden he taught "architectural theory and building history on an explicitly Marxist basis, where it essentially had to go to the systematic application of Marxism-Leninism and its art doctrines or historical models on questions of architectural production". The main field of his scientific interest was the study of ideal cities from 1400 to 1700.

Fonts (selection)

  • The history of the ideal city from 1400 to 1700. Dissertation, 1928.
  • Ideal cities. Their history from the 15th to 17th centuries. 1957.
  • Lexicon of Art. 4 volumes, 1968ff. (as co-author)

literature

  • Münter, Georg. In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 667 ( limited preview in Google book search).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Other sources give the place of death as Dresden. See the university archive of the TU Dresden
  2. ↑ a b See the history of the IBAD ( Memento from February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Institute for Building History, Architectural Theory and Monument Preservation, Technical University of Dresden
personal data
SURNAME Münter, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Münter, Georg Karl Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohensalza
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1965
Place of death Leipzig