Gottfried Schindler (architect, 1870)

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Gottfried Schindler (born August 12, 1870 in Glarus ; † September 28, 1950 in Zollikon ) was a Swiss architect .

Schindler studied from 1889 to 1894 at the building school of the Zurich Polytechnic . After graduation, he worked on the construction of the Swiss National Exhibition in Geneva in 1896, then activities in France, a one-year study visit in Paris, collaboration in Frankfurt am Main, before returning to Switzerland in 1899; to St. Gallen and Zurich, where he last worked for Kehrer and Knell .

During his studies in Zurich he joined the Utonia Academic Gymnastics Association and the Rhodania Geneva Academic Gymnastics Association during his stay in Geneva.

In 1903, together with Johann Rudolf Streiff , who also came from Glarus, he founded the architectural office Streiff and Schindler , which existed for 15 years, but did not survive the general order crisis of the First World War . The office in which Schindler took on the technical part, while Streiff was responsible for the design, drew the plans for the Zürcher Volkshaus, which opened in 1910, alongside a number of representative country houses in the Zurich area and in the Glarus region . In 1908, Schindler was one of the founders of the Association of Swiss Architects , where he was also central chairman for three years.

Due to economic difficulties caused by the First World War, he separated from Streiff in order to join his father-in-law's mechanical engineering company Bucher-Guyer ; He therefore moved from Zollikon , where he had been a councilor, to Niederweningen , where he was the school president. Gottfried Schindler was a captain in the Swiss Army .

literature

  • Karin Dangel: Streiff and Schindler. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 519
  • Hans Leuzinger : Gottfried Schindler-Bucher . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 68 , no. 48 . Zurich 1950, p. 676 ( online [accessed June 29, 2016]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aebi Jürg / Baumann Paul / Gantenbein Hans / Ungricht Erwin / Hegg Jean-Jaques / Hartmann Peter, Akademische Turnerschaft Utonia zu Zürich 1873-1973 , Zürich 1973
  2. ↑ Christian Brändli, Jurassia Lausanne and Geneva Rhodania , Wetzikon 1996, p 72
  3. ↑ Susanne Eigenheer: baths, Education, Bolshevism: conflicts of interest surrounding the Zurich Volkshaus 1890-1920. Chronos, Zurich 1993.
personal data
SURNAME Schindler, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Glarus
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1950
Place of death Zollikon