Gottfried Dauner

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Gottfried Dauner (born May 10, 1908 in Kempten (Allgäu) , † December 21, 1980 ) was a German architect .

Gottfried Dauner

Dauner worked in Bamberg and was a student of German Bestelmeyer , the builder of the Friedenskirche in Nürnberg and the Erlöserkirche in Bamberg (1930-1933).

Dauner is considered to be the builder of the Nuremberg Reformation Memorial Church on Maxfeld , Berliner Platz 11, in the years 1935–1938. Bestelmeyer himself was a member of the awarding jury and created the designs for the stone pulpit and the table altar with the evangelist symbols. Dauner interpreted his Romanising building as the “massive, defiant memorial of the Reformation” and “an expression of today's bitter, militant-heroic times”.

His other works include the nave of the Evangelical Lutheran Kreuzkirche in Oberndorf , which he rebuilt in 1938/1940 together with Horst Schwabe . A list of all of his projects can be found in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich .

After the war he also tried his hand at inventing. Between 1954 and 1956 a total of 11 patents were registered in his name in Germany.

Life

education

He graduated from high school in Aalen, today: Schubart-Gymnasium Aalen . He went to the Technical University of Munich to study architecture .

After being called up for military service and then serving at the front in the Kurland Army Group , he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. He was able to escape from captivity and made his way home through Scandinavia on foot.

In 1956 he emigrated to British Columbia (Canada), but returned to Germany a few years later.

Private

Gottfried Dauner was the second son of the bank director Gottfried Dauer from Landsberg / Lech and his wife Luise Hedwig Dauner nee. Burl.

Gottfried Dauner 2nd from right

He was married to Maria Dauner (née Reising) from Bamberg. The marriage remained childless.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Brülls: A strong castle? Church building and church struggle in the Nazi era. The Reformation Memorial Church in Nuremberg. In: Bazon Brock, Achim Preiss (Ed.): Art on command? 33-45. Munich 1990, p. 178.
  2. ↑ Link to the catalog raisonné in the Architekturmuseum der TU München, accessed on August 27, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Dauner, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempten (Allgäu)
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1980
Place of death Kempten (Allgäu)