Georg Werner (architect)

Georg Werner (* 1894 in Passau ; † 1964 in Munich ) was a German architect , construction clerk and university professor .

Fürstenfeldbruck post office

Lenbachplatz with Victoria House in the center of the picture

Air landing school in Altenstadt

Catholic parish church St. Ulrich in Starnberg-Söcking

Life

Georg Werner studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Munich from 1912 to 1920 , interrupted by military service during the First World War . Between 1920 and 1926 he was a trainee lawyer , then a government builder ( assessor ) and finally a post construction officer at the Munich Oberpostdirektion , until in 1926 he was appointed head of the Augsburg Oberpostdirektion . In 1935 he moved to the Reich Post Ministry in Berlin and finally in 1938 became chief architect and department head for the construction of the Reich Post in the Berlin Ministry. He wanted to bring his modern architecture concept to the imperial architecture, but failed in Berlin with this plan. Nevertheless, Werner made a career under the National Socialists up to his inclusion in the planning staff of Albert Speer . However, his letters from this period show a great distance from the National Socialist dictatorship and, in particular, from its monumental architecture. On August 30, 1940, he wrote the following sarcastic lines: “What is to come is so monstrous, so mindless and stupid that it is just great in its absolute and stupid way; the mindlessness will receive an overwhelming monument and I am very satisfied when the power is now finally carved in granite and depicted for everyone for the foreseeable future. Only now will humanity be held up to its true mirror and it will howl with enthusiasm ” .

In 1945 he was taken prisoner of war . From 1946 he worked first as a licensed freelance architect in Munich and then from 1948 as a city planner in Augsburg . In 1950 he was appointed professor for building construction at the Technical University of Munich , where he was given the chair for design and urban planning in 1954, until he finally retired in 1960 . From 1952 he was a member of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning . In 1959 Werner was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

In addition to Robert Vorhoelzer and Walther Schmidt, Werner was another important member of the Post Building School and was involved, for example, in the design of the administrative building for the Munich Post Office . Werner's understanding of architecture is characterized by an internal contradiction between the modernism of the Stijlgruppe and Heimatschutz architecture.

plant

• 1922: Post office Augsburg-Pfersee (with Thomas Wechs )
• 1922/23: Post office Wasserburg am Inn (with Robert Vorhoelzer)
• 1922/24: Administration building of the Oberpostdirektion in Arnulfstrasse, Munich (with Robert Vorhoelzer)
• 1923: Post Office Donauwörth (with Robert Vorhoelzer and Georg Werner)
• 1924: Munich post office on Winthirstrasse (with Robert Vorhoelzer, Walther Schmidt and Franz Holzhammer)
• 1925: Fernamt Augsburg (with Robert Vorhoelzer and Heinrich Götzger)
• 1925: Hergatz post office
• 1926: Augsburg post office on Gögginger Strasse
• 1926: Post office in Türkheim
• 1927: Post office Augsburg-Lechhausen
• 1927: Ichenhausen post office
• 1927: Post Office Kaufering (with Eduard Härtinger)
• 1927: Legau post office
• 1927: Mindelheim post office (with Karl Erdmannsdorfer)
• 1927: Post office Ottobeuren
• 1928: Post housing estate on Alpenstrasse in Augsburg (with Fritz Freyberger)
• 1928: Lechhausen post office
• 1928/30: Telegraph office and post truck hall Augsburg (with Heinrich Götzger, Wilhelm Wichtendahl, HR)
• 1929: Post office and amplifier office Göggingen (with Eduard Härtinger)
• 1929: Post Office Gundelfingen (with Wilhelm Wichtendahl)
• 1029/30: Postal vehicle hall in Hindelang
• 1929/30: Post vehicle hall in Kaufbeuren (with Ernst Ott)
• Augsburg post office on Ulmer Strasse
• 1930: Friedberg Post Office (with Wilhelm Wichtendahl and Walter Schüßler)
• 1930: Günzburg post office
• 1930: Post office Fürstenfeldbruck (with Lars Landschreiber and Wilhelm Wichtendahl)
• 1930: Weissenhorn Post Office (with Clemens Böhm)
• 1930: Oberstaufen residential building
• 1931: Post office Augsburg-Hochzoll (with Wilhelm Wichtendahl)
• 1931: Post Office Pfronten-Ried (with Clemens Böhm)
• 1931: Post Office Nesselwang (with Clemens Böhm)
• 1931: Postkraftwagen-Halle Füssen (with Walter Schüßler and Robert Pfaud)
• 1931: Postkraftwagen-Halle Oberstdorf (with Walter Schmidt)
• 1931: Augsburg-Pfersee housing estate
• 1931/32: Post Office Post Office Rain am Lech (with Wilhelm Wichtendahl)
• 1931/32: Steingaden post office (with Clemens Böhm)
• 1931/32: Post Office Thannhausen (with Eduard Härtinger)
• 1932: Post Office Günzach (with Walter Freyberger)
• 1932: Post Office Post Office Höchstädt
• 1932: Memmingen post office (with Walter Freyberger)
• 1932: Post Office Pöttmes (with Wilhelm Wichtendahl)
• 1932/33: Post Office Wertingen (with Clemens Böhm)
• 1933: Telecommunications service building in Buchloe
• 1933: Harburg Post Office (with Walter Freyberger and Robert Pfaud)
• 1934: Aichach post office and amplifier office (with Ernst Ott and Robert Pfand)
• 1935: Post office building in Mering (with Eduard Härtinger)
• 1935: Amplifier Office Kempten (with Heinrich Götzger)
• 1936: Post row house settlement in Augsburg-Pfersee
• 1948: School in Augsburg-Lechhausen
• 1955: St. Margret municipal retirement home on Milchberg near Augsburg
• 1955: Victoria Insurance House on Lenbachplatz in Munich
• 1955: Institute for Electrical Systems and High Voltage Technology at the TH-Munich
• 1957/58 Catholic parish church St. Ulrich in Starnberg - Söcking
• 1959: Altenstadt air landing school in Schongau
• 1959–1966: Institute for Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich

literature

• Antina Gaenßler: Georg Werner 1894–1964. In: Detail 1992, pp. 436-442.

Web links

Benedikt Köhler: Architectural Guide Bavarian Post Building School. 2008, accessed August 7, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Quoted from Florian Aicher, Uwe Drepper: Robert Vorhoelzer. An architect's life. The classic modernity of the Post. Callwey, Munich 1990, p. 186.